This was def a game changer...bi level, magna-save, menacing voice..unbelievable machine..

The first true love of my pinball life as well. I played it all the time at an arcade a few blocks from me in the early 80s. Now I own one and still let myself have 3 games a night most of the time. I just never get tired of it sounds. I was lucky enough to buy a mint Black Knight 2000 as well. It is a HUGE part of family gatherings in my house at Christmas and birthdays.

I think this is my fav pinball machine. The 2 levels,multiball and how good it plays multiball, the magnets, the sounds and the voice. Yeah. It is my favorite. Thanks for sharing your story.

This is was my favorite pinball of all time!

Oh boy, brings back so memories. Glad you had a game where all aspects were displayed. Thanks for posting.

Steve Richie classic. One of my favorite pinball designers next to Pat Lawler. So jealous. Hope I could afford one my6.

Thanks for sharing the story, I can't imagine the connection you have with this after that...your dad buying it for you. Very cool. Beautiful machine.

I love this game. Used to play it when Black Knight first came out. Never forgot it. Loved the sound effects.

Oh man this takes me back. A couple boxes of Nerds and D&D candy, a can of Cherry RC, and a pocket full of quarters fed into this beast was my ideal afternoon when I was 12.

Incredible story and machine. Dude, TRIPLE Magna-Save! WOW. Very well played, monster game.

Awesome game. Had one in the back of a local diner. Used to go there to eat after work with a couple friends and play for hours.

For 42 years I thought he said the black night will PLAY you🤣 I haven’t heard these sounds since 1982 and it feels like I heard them yesterday. Lake Hemet Market, Mountain Center, California -1982

Back when this came out, my best friend and I would go to the bar and play this game for hours! My highest score ever was 7.2 million. I've never come close to that since. It took me over 90 minutes of playing time. The key is getting long play out of multi-ball, getting the bonus full to 5X, and using the magna-save! I bought one in 1984 for 200 bucks - after a couple of years I gave it to a friend who still has it. I still consider it the best pinball game ever! I still play it online now and then.

So cool to hear the love and dedication. BK2000 Was the first pin that really got me hooked, and man it is true what they say about your "first"

A long long time ago, in a U.S.A. far far away, I was a 15-year-old high-school sophomore cheerleader in Colorado. It was 1982, and our fundraiser was scarves and mittens. Coincident with this, I got hung up on the pinball game The Black Knight. I was still a virgin back then...and in my neighborhood, it wasn't necessarily terrifying, fundraising door-to-door. I did pretty well in sales; unfortunately, my Black Knight fever got the best of me, and I spent all of that money on him at the arcade around the corner. The day soon approached when I had to account for either, the goods or the ca$h. I wound up taking on extra babysitting gigs to make up the deficit. It was my first hard-knocks lesson in real-life economics...an awkward situation that gave birth to a lifetime of imagined dirty stories. Thank you, Black Knight 🌚 ❤❤❤ (Addendum: I wrote everything above prior to the 7:20 mark of this video, and I've gotta say: Sir, with all that pinball wizardry, you'dve had a half-black cheerleader as your girlfriend that year, Lawd, have mercy. I just wanted you to know)

This game was also one of my favourite pinball machines as a kid . Another game that blew me away from around that time was FIREPOWER ... Spent many quarters at the bowling alley back in the day . Thank you for sharing !

I LOVE THIS MACHINE

Finally, the content on Black Knight that isn't BK2000! I really wanted to check what the original was like.

Thanks for playing the full game, I feel like I'm 12 again for a few minutes.

I had this game in my house growing up in the 80’s

So this is the actual game you played as a kid in an arcade? Very cool. I was lucky enough a few years ago to luck into a Black Knight when I answered an ad for another machine, a Firepower. BK was under a blanket in the basement and they didn't even know that it was down there, and as it turns out, it was one of the several Black Knights from Time Travel Warehouse that were still new-in-box back in the early 2000's.

The sounds of this game in the 80s was amazing.

I put so many quarters in that one !!! lol omg watching the game play brought back so many memories !!! ohhh man !

Easily my favorite pinball game ever.

Loved this video. I had one given to me ten years ago in need of care. Finally getting to it and can't wait to have it up and working.

This game was absolutely everywhere for years. At least a decade or more. From the flashest arcade to the dingiest fish & chip shop.

Having wasted a fortune in quarters on this machine, I'm here to say that your flipper work was better than mine ever was on my best day. Dude! Although I might challenge you in Satin Doll. :)

Black Knight was the game. So many kids of the early 80s remember it. Joust stole so many of its sound effects.

I know this is a 3 year old video but ,Dude I loved that game !!

Next to a Blackout..my favs.

MULTIBALL!!! IS THE BEST!!!

Ah, the fantastic Black Knight arcade machine. It has always been one of the most popular pinball games in the brazilian arcades, and it has a legion of nostalgic fans. Here she is called "Cavaleiro Negro", which is the literal translation of her name. The robotic voice sounds very different from your machine. It gives me the impression that your machine uses a digitized voice while our version uses a synthesized one. Not strangely, the synthesizer uses an American accent, so our knight seems to be a gringo trying to speak Portuguese with a thick accent :) Look on KZfaq for a video called "Cavaleiro Negro todas as vozes", to hear all the lines from this pinball machine in "portuguese". sort of :)

That is an awesome story!

I played this game for months on end back in the 80's and never saw a second ball get stuck on the first ball over the magnasave. Not once, but twice!

I used to be quasi addicted to this machine in 1988-1989 when I was a senior in HS. Jenkinsons Arcade on the beach in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ used to have it and that's where I'd play it. "I am the black knight..." I'll never forget that voice & the "magna save" as I think it was called. BTW - on the one I'd play the voice was different. It wasn't robotic and was more like a normal, dark voice. This voice sounds like the same one as in games like Robotron.

Williams always loved using their sounds from other arcades. This one uses “robotron”.

You have great taste in pinball....

Beautiful machine. I enjoyed hearing your story about how you got it. You have some great skills at playing this.

That you for the memories :-)

I have a Black Knight, its definitely a keeper, 2nd best Firepower..

Totally forgotten the whistling sound. Kinda reminds of nintendo blades of steel. What do you have to do to achieve that?

Did you ever modify your bottom flippers to increase their strength? The black knight I have here, the right flipper will not shoot the ball up the left ramp all the way, maybe half way. The previous owner had rebuilt the flipper mechs with all new parts and coils. I've checked the EOS switch gaps and they are ok. The coils are the correct type also.

I had one of these in my garage as a kid, you could always hear it through the flimsy wall of my bathroom heh.. But I remember it saying "BLACK KNIGHT RETURNSSSS" does it to do that?