Screen printing (putting the artwork on the playfield).ģ. Routing (cutting the wood, drilling holes, adding inserts, sanding and sealing.).Ģ.

The necessary steps when creating a playfield are:ġ. Or a ‘hot pink’ playfield in a Creature From the Black Lagoon (because it was made by a different company). This is why you will find some Addams Family playfields that are more purple than blue on some games. Larger runs (like Addams Family, Twilight Zone, etc) often were made by several companies so Bally/Williams had enough quantity quickly to make a game. So for every game it could be different or even change during the production run. This was decided later in the production process by the purchasing department. Most of the time game designers did not know in advance what company would handle the playfield production. That explains why you find multiple stamps on the front edge of a playfield. So the letters identify what company has worked on the playfield.īecause there are several steps involved in making a playfield and not every company could create a playfield from start to finish, playfields were sometimes shipped from one company to the other.

The production of playfields and cabinets were subcontracted to other companies. This table is also available on the Pinball Arcade on the Nintendo Switch.Bally / Williams / Gottlieb / Stern did not make their own playfields and cabinets. This table is also available for PlayStation 3 and 4 since October 18, 2016. TX-Sector is available as a licensed table on The Pinball Arcade for PC & Android since May 2016.

Artwork: Constantino Mitchell, Jeanine Mitchell.

The game was praised in a review by Classic Game Room for its music and sound effects, which raised the machine's market value.

The pinball machine creates the illusion of teleporting the ball by so-called staged balls that are hidden and released when needed. TX-Sector was one of only three pinball machines to use a Vitrigraph playfield besides the games Victory and Diamond Lady. The game features a scifi theme and revolves around raising the energy level to teleport the ball. TX-Sector is a pinball machine designed by John Trudeau and released by Gottlieb in 1988.

Pinball machine designed by John Trudeau TX-Sector

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