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After two years of development, a name change (the original name was "VideoGame/GhostSquad"), and lots of good-spirited help from industry veterans and pinball fans, ''America's Most Haunted'' was released in 2014 as the first game from Spooky Pinball LLC, in both "Animated Blue" and "Reality Green" art packages. A complete run of 150 units has been filled, with games shipped to buyers through 2016. The game software is also fully open sourced, allowing budding developers to update the software and animation simply by swapping out an SD card.

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After two years of development, a name change (the original name was "VideoGame/GhostSquad"), "Ghost Squad"), and lots of good-spirited help from industry veterans and pinball fans, ''America's Most Haunted'' was released in 2014 as the first game from Spooky Pinball LLC, in both "Animated Blue" and "Reality Green" art packages. A complete run of 150 units has been filled, with games shipped to buyers through 2016. The game software is also fully open sourced, allowing budding developers to update the software and animation simply by swapping out an SD card.
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* WomanScorned: Implied by Samuel Salazar's tombstone, which reads "[[Film/TheRoom His wife Lisa tore him apart]]."

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* WomanScorned: Implied by Samuel Salazar's tombstone, which reads "[[Film/TheRoom "[[Film/TheRoom2003 His wife Lisa tore him apart]]."
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-->[[Film/TheRoom His wife Lisa tore him apart.]]

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-->[[Film/TheRoom -->[[Film/TheRoom2003 His wife Lisa tore him apart.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithCows:
** The silhouette of a ghost cow can be seen in the center background of the backglass.
** On initial settings, the second high-score entry has the initials COW.
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** The Ghost Doctor is Dr. Nord, a reference to pinball designer Creator/DennisNordman and a consultant on the game.

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** The Ghost Doctor is Dr. Nord, a reference to pinball designer Creator/DennisNordman and a consultant on the game.game, Dennis also provided the Ghost Doctor's voice.
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* HotGypsyWoman: Played with; Misty Moon likes to dresses up like a stereotypical gypsy woman.

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* HotGypsyWoman: Played with; Misty Moon likes to dresses dress up like a stereotypical gypsy woman.
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The genesis of this game came when Charlie Emery, creator and host of the [[http://www.spookypinball.com Spooky Pinball podcast,]] hooked up with VideoGame-console modder and internet celebrity Benjamin Heckendorn, ''a.k.a.'' Ben Heck. Heck, already (in)famous for building his own ''Creator/BillPaxton'' [[http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/ben-heck-completes-the-bill-paxton-pinball-machine-reasserts-su/ pinball table,]] became inspired to develop a game combining Emery's love of pinball and all things [[ParanormalTropes paranormal.]] Emery, in turn, was inspired to start his own company to manufacture and sell it to collectors of boutique pinballs.

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The genesis of this game came when Charlie Emery, creator and host of the [[http://www.spookypinball.com Spooky Pinball podcast,]] hooked up with VideoGame-console modder and internet celebrity Benjamin Heckendorn, ''a.k.a.'' Ben Heck. Heck, already (in)famous for building his own ''Creator/BillPaxton'' [[http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/ben-heck-completes-the-bill-paxton-pinball-machine-reasserts-su/ pinball table,]] became inspired to develop a game combining Emery's love of pinball and all things [[ParanormalTropes paranormal.]] Emery, in turn, was inspired to start [[Creator/SpookyPinball his own company company]] to manufacture and sell it to collectors of boutique pinballs.
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[[caption-width-right:350:What happens when a {{Podcast}} and a {{Pinball}} love each other very much...]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:What happens when a {{Podcast}} {{podcast}} and a {{Pinball}} {{pinball}} love each other very much...]]



{{Pinball}} themes have been inspired from all kinds of topics and all sorts of genres, from science fiction and fantasy through sports and movies and all points in between. Yet even in this broad field, ''America's Most Haunted'' is unique for being the first pinball game inspired by a {{Podcast}}.

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{{Pinball}} themes have been inspired from all kinds of topics and all sorts of genres, from science fiction and fantasy through sports and movies and all points in between. Yet even in this broad field, ''America's Most Haunted'' is unique for being the first pinball game inspired by a {{Podcast}}.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''America's Most Haunted'' is Spooky Pinball's first and only table to have a single-color dot-matrix display, with all subsequent tables having full-color monitors designed to resemble a dot-matrix display. It's also Spooky's only table not based on a licensed theme (or at least not intentionally).
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* NumberOfTheBeast: One of the random point awards is 3,''666'',000 points.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All of the ghosts share at least one feature or held item that matches with the color of the insert light for his or her location.
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{{Pinball}} themes have been inspired from all kinds of topics and all sorts of genres, from science fiction and fantasy through sports and movies and all points in between. Yet even in this broad field, '''America's Most Haunted''' is unique for being the first pinball game inspired by a {{Podcast}}.

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{{Pinball}} themes have been inspired from all kinds of topics and all sorts of genres, from science fiction and fantasy through sports and movies and all points in between. Yet even in this broad field, '''America's ''America's Most Haunted''' Haunted'' is unique for being the first pinball game inspired by a {{Podcast}}.
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->''To Them, The Paranormal Isn't''

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->''To ->''"To Them, The Paranormal Isn't''
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* WomanScorned: Implied by Samuel Salazar's tombstone, which reads "His wife Lisa tore him apart."

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* WomanScorned: Implied by Samuel Salazar's tombstone, which reads "His "[[Film/TheRoom His wife Lisa tore him apart.apart]]."
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* SpinOff: The entire game was spun off the [[VerySpecialEpisode the 2011 Halloween episode]] of WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow.

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* SpinOff: The entire game was spun off the from [[VerySpecialEpisode the 2011 Halloween episode]] of WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow.
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* SpinOff: The entire game was spun off the [[VerySpecialEpisode the Halloween episode]] of WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow.

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* SpinOff: The entire game was spun off the [[VerySpecialEpisode the 2011 Halloween episode]] of WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow.
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* SpinOff: The entire game was spun off the [[VerySpecialEpisode the Halloween episode]] of WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow.

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After two years of development, a name change (the original name was "VideoGame/GhostSquad"), and lots of good-spirited help from industry veterans and pinball fans, ''America's Most Haunted'' was released in 2014 as the first game from Spooky Pinball LLC, in both "Animated Blue" and "Reality Green" art packages. An initial run of 100 units is in progress, with long-term plans to sell several hundred over a five-year period. The game software is also fully open sourced, allowing budding developers to update the software and animation simply by swapping out an SD card.

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After two years of development, a name change (the original name was "VideoGame/GhostSquad"), and lots of good-spirited help from industry veterans and pinball fans, ''America's Most Haunted'' was released in 2014 as the first game from Spooky Pinball LLC, in both "Animated Blue" and "Reality Green" art packages. An initial A complete run of 100 150 units is in progress, has been filled, with long-term plans games shipped to sell several hundred over a five-year period.buyers through 2016. The game software is also fully open sourced, allowing budding developers to update the software and animation simply by swapping out an SD card.

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