UK Machine Record
Williams · 1997 · at 4 UK venues.
Medieval Madness takes the idea of a medieval adventure and turns it into one of pinball’s clearest and most entertaining rule sets. Brian Eddy’s objective is wonderfully simple: destroy castles, defeat trolls, rescue damsels and become king.
The two castles are the centre of the game, but attacking them opens up a chain of other objectives involving trolls, damsels and multiball. The result is a game that can be understood within minutes but takes considerably longer to master.
Its greatest strength is that almost every shot feels meaningful. You are rarely wondering what the game wants you to do; the challenge is making it happen. Start damaging the castles early. The sooner you make progress, the more options you create for the rest of the game.
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Silverball guide · Medieval Madness · written on a 1997 original
Multiball Madness can only be played once per cycle, and both its ball count and its jackpots are priced on how many Madness lights you are holding when you start it. Starting it the moment it lights is the most common way to waste a good game.
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Impress your friends by telling them Tina Fey did all the female voices in the game.
Shoot the castle repeatedly to open it up and score big points. Each subsequent castle is worth more.
Destroy 2 castles and light extra ball
A good strategy is finish all the ramps / orbits until all that’s left is trolls, start Mode madness for the MB and finish trolls for retrig
During royal madness, keep going for the ball lock shot. Easier way to complete all modes & get extra ball.
Shoot castle gate from L flipper. Much safer than using R flipper
At the start of Royal madness, hit trolls first while ball save is active & then go from there.
A lucky bounce into the saucer, from the pop bumpers, will collect a lit extra ball, but nothing else that's lit there.
Press L flipper & launch ball, it'll come down the L orbit. For a few seconds, all major shots are lit. Hit any shot + castle for hurry up.
Start multiball by hitting lock shot left of castle. Jackpots are both ramps but values are small—it's usually better to go for castles
Lite Trolls and M-ball Madness at the same time. Shoot saucer to start both. Killing both Trolls will add a ball with a fresh ball save.
You can use a Troll Bomb during video mode to kill all the birds on screen with the Fire button.
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How Medieval Madness was sold to operators — Williams, 1997. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Flyer scan via the Internet Pinball Database. The artwork is Williams’s.
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