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The Black Knight 2000 coin-operated Pinball by Williams Electronic Games, Inc. (WMS, 1985-2000) (circa 1989), and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for sale and wanted lists, and census survey is brought to you by The International Arcade Museum at the Museum of the Game. Black Knight 2000 - pros/cons/price? You'll either love or hate the music. Left flipper isn't used for much. Most of the action is on the upper pf so the lower flippers are used to get the ball to the upper pf and stay there as long as possible. Played it to death when I was a kid. Examples of Awesome Music in Pinball games, whether Physical Pinball Tables or Digital Pinball Tables. 1989's Black Knight 2000 is known for having one of the best soundtracks ever for a pinball game, composed by Brian Schmidt, Dan 'Toasty!' Forden, and the. Thanks for all the support and positive response! I'm glad to see so many other people get a kick out of this mashup. It seemed like an inevitable crossover between memes, so I thought I'd give it a shot for a laugh. If anyone else is interested in remixing the Black Knight 2000 music, you.
| Manufacturer | Williams |
|---|---|
| Release date | April 4, 1989 |
| System | Williams System 11B |
| Design | Steve Ritchie |
| Programming | Ed Boon |
| Artwork | Doug Watson |
| Mechanics | Joe Joos Jr. |
| Music | Brian Schmidt Dan Forden Steve Ritchie |
| Sound | Brian Schmidt Dan Forden |
| Voices | Steve Ritchie (Black Knight) Stephanie Rogers (choir) Glo Van Vlack (choir) |
| Production run | 5,703[1] |
Black Knight 2000 is a 1989 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie (who also provides the Knight's voice) and released by Williams Electronics. The game is the sequel to the 1980 pinball machine Black Knight. It was advertised with the slogan 'He rides again.' and features a black knight theme.[1] 30 years later, Ritchie would design a third game in the series for Stern Pinball, titled Black Knight: Sword of Rage.[2]
Description[edit]
Black Knight 2000 has two different plastic artwork versions of the upper playfield - a futuristic and a stone castle design. The voices of the Choir of Angels are Stephanie Rogers and Glo Van Vlack.[1]
The game has an upper and lower level, a repeating U-Turn, Skyway Loop shots and a Drawbridge toy. Black Knight 2000 includes the patented Magna-Save feature from the original—magnet which prevents balls from draining. Other gameplay features include Lightning Wheel Awards, Hurry-Up bonuses, three Multi-Ball rounds, and The King's Ransom Wizard mode.[3]
Under default settings, players are allowed up to five extra balls per game; any extra ball earned thereafter earns a point award.
Design Team[edit]
Black Knight 2000 Musician
- Design, Concept & Direction: Steve Ritchie
- Software, Effects & Magic: Ed Boon
- Mechanical Excellence: Joe Joos
- Artiste Extraordinaire: Doug Watson
- Music, Speech & Sounds: Brian Schmidt, Dan Forden
- Callouts: Steve Ritchie
- Supertechs: Butch Ortega, Zofia Bil, Jose Delgado, Tony Kraemer, Dick Valosek, Mark Johnson, Elaine & Paul Johnson, Al Cardenas, Manu Jayswal, Greg Freres, Art Clafford
Legacy[edit]
Black Knight 2000 appears in episode 7 of season 1 of The X-Files as well as the pinball machine Totem.[4]
Black Knight 2000 was formerly available as a licensed table in The Pinball Arcade for any platform until June 30, 2018. It was also included in the arcade game UltraPin.
References[edit]
Black Knight 2000 Music
- ^ abc'Internet Pinball Machine Database: Williams 'Black Knight 2000''. Ipdb.org. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ^https://sternpinball.com/game/black-knight/
- ^'Table add-on pack #23: Black Knight 2000™'. Marketplace.xbox.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ^http://www.pingeek.com/tv/tv.htm
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Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Review this album Report (Review #5813)
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Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Review this album Report (Review #5814)
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In the beginning there was Genesis! Then along came the wonderful Marillion. They were followed by the inscrutable Pendragon! Through the years I have been surprised, no shocked, actually amazed at how few people have heard of, let alone heard Pendragon. Among those never hearing of Pendragon are many Prog Heads. This is especially surprising because Prog Heads are known for ferreting out obscure or relatively unknown progressive rock, neo prog and canterbury prog acts. Acts such as Camel, Caravan, Ozric Tenticles, Hawkwind.
Oh sure, you may know them. I didn't mean they're unknown. Let's say they are underknown. But how can a band with such a royal name as Pendragon, with a royal lineage rich in the traditions of Prog Rock icons Genesis and Marillion be underknown and under appreciated? Well, let's do something about that, Ok?
About Pendragon
British Neo-Progressive Rock band Pendragon formed in London in the summer of 1986. Band members were songwriter Nick Barrett (vocals, guitar), Peter Gee (Bass), Fudge Smith (drummer) and Clive Nolan (Keyboards). All members except the latter have pretty much worked within the confines of Pendragon while Clive Nolan has been all over the place, forming another very good Neo-Prog band, Arena, guesting on three Ayreon projects, Performing in yet another Neo-Prog band, Shadowland, and guesting on at least another half dozen albums. Additionally he has produced a few albums and was the engineer on a few.
Pendragon has recorded ten studio albums. Two live and two compilations have also been released.
Discography: 1984 Fly High, Fall Far Awareness 1985 The Jewel Awareness 1986 9.15 Awareness 1986 9:15 Live Toff 1988 Kowtow Toff 1991 Rest of Pendragon Toff 1994 World Griffin 1996 Masquerade Overture Griffin Music 1996 Window of Life Griffin Music 1998 Fallen Dreams & Angels Import 2001 Not of This World Pony Canyon 2003 Live in Krakow 1996
1999 Overture, 1984-1996 Outer Music 2001 The History: 1984-2000 Cleopatra
History 1984 - 2000
History is, obvious from the title, a best of album, sorta. While there is definitely some good stuff on here, I do not consider the music within this compendium to be representative of their best but then again, I'm not being fair since Pendragon is a band in ascent. Their star has yet to hit their apex and some of their best music was released subsequent to this compilation. Also I should point out that this particular release was originally put out by Metal Mind Records, a notable Polish record label who geared their song choices to Polish tastes, not that Polish tastes are much different than mine, especially since some of my favorite bands like Artrosis and Delight are Polish bands, which co-incidentally are also stabled on Metal Mind Records.
Song/Track List 1. Walls of Babylon (Barrett) - 10:44 ***** 2. The Shadow (Barrett) - 9:55 ****1/2 3. Total Recall (Barrett/Gee) - 7:05 *** 4. The Voyager (Barrett) - 12:15 ***1/2 5. The Black Knight (Barrett) - 9:58 **** 6. And We'll Go Hunting Deer (Barrett) - 7:14 ****1/2 7. Am I Really Losing You? (Barrett) - 4:47 ****1/2 8. The King of the Castle (Barrett) - 4:43 ****1/2 9. Paintbox (Barrett) - 4:23 **** 10. The Last Waltz [multimedia track] (Barrett/Gee) - 5:18
Killer songs
'Walls of Babylon' Man, they start off with a simply fabulous tune. 'Wish You Were Here' anyone? The four minute extraordinary guitar and organ intro is pure Pink Floyd whereupon the organ takes over and Pendragon smoothly and effortlessly eases into the sound of Genesis. Strangely enough singer/guitarist Nick Barrett manages to sound like a combination of Genesis's Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and even Marillion's Fish. This ten plus minute gem is indeed worthy of a best of compilation.
Sorry, that's all the killer song. You want more? Ok!
Semi-Killer songs
After 'Walls of Babylon' the songs all become very melodious and mellow and yes, unfortunately boring. Individually they are very good but as a whole and being seventy minutes long, as a unit they become boring. The most interesting of the remaining songs is 'The Shadow' which starts out slow but gradually builds up both speed and intensity to absorb my interest. I should mention that all these songs seem to have an ethereal quality and a mildly psychedelic undercurrent with Clive Nolan's fabulous organ/synth work. Another strength of their music is the always pleasant melodies.
Three other very good and similar songs are 'And We'll Go Hunting Deer', 'Am I Really Losing You?' and 'The King of the Castle'. They are all blessed with intriguing melodies delivered in a slow to slow medium pace with Barrett's very pleasant and emotional vocals ably assisted by acoustic or electric guitar, organ or synth and the equally able rhythm section. In Hunting Deer, a contributing hook is a placid wood flute and a choir beginning, in Losing You it's a remarkable ending whining guitar solo and on King of the Castle we have Barrett vocally mimicking an instrument at the end.
Sample Lyrics
'Am I Really Losing You ?' 'Am I really losing you? Is that Mr. Nobody there? Is it still all for one, and one for all? Standing in an empty castle Or fading into thin air
When I was a boy I dreamt that God lived in ten sun Memories like dusty toys Never needing anyone Am I really losing you, or has life just begun?
Standing on Earth's Court station You can see the ones that have gone The ones that gave up hope long ago The ones that don't belong Sad looking faces shuffling through their lives Just waiting to find out what lies behind the big white door But like a shooting star will you just pass us by? And fade away into the night And race across the sky one freezing night'
Conclusion
To be fair, this album is probably a tad too mellow for my taste but it is very good and I would tend to play it as DO NOT DISTURB background music while I'm doing something immensely important, like writing PROG ARCHIVES reviews or playing chess with Boris Spasky or hosting one of my many Bridge tournaments, plus it's definitely more impressive for my mother in law than say, Megadeth or Cradle of Filth. I guess I can think of all kinds of places where this heavenly non invasive music can be used.
Pendragon doesn't really break any new ground. They may not be innovative enough for that or maybe they're at their comfort level. Whichever, what Pendragon offers is a very well executed extension and elaboration of the great ones that preceded them and there's nothing wrong with that.
Author's Note
If my review seems a little ambivalent to you, that's because I was ambivalent. I even vacillated on my rating. I originally started out thinking I was going to rate it five stars but I wanted to point out to my readers that though I basically consider this album great background music, there are many of you out there that wouldn't and this would fit in very nicely to your everyday musical repertoire.
In hindsight, I probably wasn't the best person to review this album but I didn't see anyone else stepping up to the plate.
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Posted Tuesday, December 7, 2004 Review this album Report (Review #5815)
PROG REVIEWER Interesting, but really not one of Pendragon's best compilations. All the songs are good, but actually A História has a much broader overview of this excellent band from England, including some EP tunes that were never available in any official full length CD. The addition of acoustic versions of The King Of the Castle and Paintbox are nice, but they are also available on the Not Of This World album. the vídeo for The Last Waltz is ok, but hardly a must have. The highlight here is the inclusion of Teh Walls Of Babylon, a much overlooked song from the much overlooked Windows Of Life, an amazing album that has the misfortune to be released between two classic, The World and the Masquerade Overture. But the real flaw of this CD is the fact it not includes the classic Sister Bluebird. I think this is Unforgivable for any best of CD concerning Pendragon.
Conclusion: All in all, good, but if you want a real best of compilation, stick with A Historia.
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Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Review this album Report (Review #94928)
PROG REVIEWER The least I can say, is that Pendragon is not very productive these years. Their superb 'Masquerade' is already four years old, and after some live album, the resurgence of very old pre-Pendragon songs with 'Once Upon, volume I and II', the Pendragon fan gets a 'Best Of' with nine songs.
Their first album is covered with 'The Black Knight' which is one of the two choices available (although 'Alaska' should have deserved to be here as well) and the choice of 'Total Recall' from 'Kowtow' is probably not a good idea (but the only very good number was the title song clocking at over ten minutes). I think that they should have discarded this album.
'Voyager' is the best alternative to the suite piece 'Queen of Hearts' (over twenty minutes) from 'The World'. Instead of choosing one piece of it (which they already did in a live album) we'll get the beautiful twelve minutes long 'Voyager' which is really good. I am more reserved for the choice of 'And We'll Go Hunting Deer'. It was the closing number from this album and sounded a bit as a leftover (maybe because it came after the great 'Queen of Hearts'. It is too mellowish a song (although this is of course 'Pendragon' 's trademark; but too much is too much).
This compilation is not really bad : you'll get tracks out of each of their albums, but some songs could have been ignored and I am not sure that the two acoustic numbers were really necessary; they were there to boost sales I guess, since fans are always keen on alternate versions of existing songs (but I am not; especially when it comes to acoustic versions).
From 'Window...', we'll get the opener and the closing numbers. Again a great choice with 'The Walls...', one of the most Floydian songs from the Pendragon repertoire. I liked 'Am I...' for its marvelous guitar break at the end of the song but I did not really expected it on a 'Best Of' effort. Of course all the other numbers were quite extended 'Breaking The Spell' or the great 'The Last Man on Heart' (almost fifteen minutes).
The more astonishing from this album, is that their most beautiful record (as well as commercial success) 'The Masquerade' is only featured by two acoustic versions. One being from a track only available as a bonus track ('The King of the Castle') while 'Paintbox' is almost cut by half ! To bad a treatment, really. Even if the Spanish sound of the acoustic guitar is quite nice. But if you are into acoustic, Pendragon will release a full acoustic set a little later...
The video for 'The Last Waltz' is the one available on the video 'Live At Last' or the DVD 'Live At Last And More'.
Pendragon could have easily produced a five star compilation, but they won't. Only a matter of track list selection.
If you are new to Pendragon, my recommendation is that you get one album out their great trilogy ('The World', 'Window...' or preferably 'The Masquerade'). You will get the true Pendragon and avoid some useless songs. The presentation of the songs is almost random. This is not the best choice I guess for a compilation work which should be intended to people with less Pendragon knowledge and therefore a chronological listening would have been better.
The best Pendragon compilation is the one I have compiled out of their whole discography. It sits on three CD's, but that's because I like Pendragon a lot.
This one is not really great. Three stars.
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Posted Thursday, June 7, 2007 Review this album Report (Review #125095)
SPECIAL COLLABORATORHonorary Reviewer Although Pendragon may have been relatively quiet of late, it is worth noting that Nick Barrett, Clive Nolan, Peter Gee and Fudge Smith have been responsible for some of the most classy prog music to come out of the UK in the Eighties and Nineties. This compilation is an attempt to lovingly put together a representative selection of their best songs, in a superb digipak with two 12- page booklets detailing the history of the band along with a discography. Why two booklets? Well, amazingly enough this has only been released in Poland so one booklet is in Polish (words by my good friend Artur Chachlowski) with the other being a translation.
. If you are a Pendragon fan then this is essential as not only is the packaging some of the best I have seen, but it also contains a video clip and two acoustic numbers ('The King Of The Castle' and 'Paintbox') which have been recorded solely for this compilation. This is a great introduction to the band a CD that anyone who enjoys Floyd style prog can purchase with extreme confidence.
Originally appeared in Feedback #58
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My first Pendragon Album - I think this is an excellent compilation album for those who are new to the music. (even though it was supposedly made for Polish tastes!) I thought 'Semismart' wrote an excellent review, but was a bit harsh to give it only 3 stars. I found the vocals not exactly to ... (read more)
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