Elvira and the Party Monsters

• Title — Elvira and the Party Monsters • Manufacturer — Midway • System — Williams System 11B • Designer — Dennis Nordman, Jim Patla • Artwork — Greg Freres • Music — Chris Granner • Voices — Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) • Programmer — Mark Penacho • Release — October 1989 • Production — approximately 4000

Most of the game was designed by Dennis Nordman, but after a motorcycle accident near the end of the design stage, Jim Patla completed it. The game is a combination of three game ideas: • Monster Mash, with dancing Boogie men was conceived of by Dennis Nordman when he observed finger puppets with dancing arms at Halloween in 1984. • Greg Freres conceived of Party Monster as a follow-up to Party Animal which had released in 1987. • Roger Sharpe, working as Williams marketing director, thought of using Elvira as a theme The marketing slogan "Elvira is No Cheap Date!" referring to the new.50/.75/1.00 pricing scheme. Elvira and the Party Monsters was manufactured shortly after the merger of Williams and Bally. Although the game uses a vaguely Bally-style cabinet and flippers, all the rest of the game hardware are completely made up of Williams parts. The machine uses a System 11B CPU and associated board setup. It includes rubber bogeyman characters and coffins that open during play.

The games designers are shown on the backglass, with Dennis Nordman as the werewolf, and Jim Patla as Dracula. The arms of the creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon are shown on the backglass, three years before the Creature from the Black Lagoon pinball machine.

This pinball machine was included in the Atari Lynx game Pinball Jam alongside Police Force. Elvira and the Party Monsters was available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms until the loss of the Williams license in 2018. The table released for Pinball FX on October 16, 2025 with optional enhancements including Elvira sitting in a cauldron. A review found this version to be authentic to the original.