To this day, I still occasionally roll out the catchphrase "try a tubeshot". Of course no one knows what I'm talking about.

Xenon is a 1980 pinball machine designed by Greg Kmiec and released by Bally. The game was not only the first talking pinball table by Bally, but also the first with a female voice. The voice for the female robot theme was provided by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani who also composed the music of the game. The voice says "Try Xeeeeenon" in attraction mode or responds to bumper hits with "Oooh" and "Aaah" seductive sound effects.

Suzanne Ciani on development of audio effects for Bally's Xenon pinball machine

This guy is a pinball master juggling that ball.

pinball machines are such beautiful works of art.

You came here after seeing the making of video for the soundtrack. Try a tube shot!

I just love when that off-center post below the flippers unexpectedly saves my ball for me.

The released a sequel called Radon. But it was only popular for 3.8235 days, and eventually disappeared.

Where it bumps hard on the underside of the left flipper on the way out (1:58), is where you learn to keep that left flipper up every time from then on when the ball travels down that same outlane. Eventually, it will take that same odd bounce again, bouncing upward, giving you a chance to "resurrect" the ball back into play as long as you're not blocking it with the left flipper. My favorite way to miraculously resurrect the ball was to use special type of "power hit" (in this case, shaking/wagging the game vigorously) to "dribble" the ball back up from just inside the outlane and back into play! It's pretty amazing to behold. Only certain pinball games had the necessary rubber pins in the correct places to accomplish that rare maneuver.

The sounds it emits are a little NSFW-y

I played this in the 80's... could put a dollar in for 3 games, walk away from it 3 hours later and leave 15 games (max) on it for someone else to enjoy. IIRC my high score was in the neighborhood of 17 million. I could use the Lazarus save down the left side about 75% of the time.

I remember seeing this back in 81 and being amazed by the work that has gone into making something so beatiful. I wondered what amazing themes and ideas the bakers would come up with in the future. Stern pinball in 2024 ☹️

I remember this down in the gameroom of the State Park Lodge in Hocking Hills, Ohio. Burned down a couple years ago, but still lives on in my treasured childhood memories.

Such a stupidly hard game, this one. From the massive flipper gap to the gaping wide outlanes to the lower bumper that has an annoying tendency to yeet the ball straight down the middle to the saucer that seems to be up to the whim of the pinball gods as to whether or not the ball stays in to the ramp eject that deliberately chucks the ball into the slings (and an all-too-likely left outlane drain if the slings are set particularly sadistic), this is a game that punishes you for making even the slightest mistake (and sometimes even when you don't). This video really does make the game look a _lot_ friendlier than it actually is.

Awesome video....one of THE BEST pinball machines EVER...🤩🤩😍😍

What I liked about this game she allways said. Ahhhhhhh in a real sexy voice when u put a quarter in ...wow I miss 1981 ;(

There’s something so satisfying about the sound of the clicks and clacks of ball and bumper.

Just bought a tshirt with the Xenon illustration! I will always love this game! ❤

Great classic, love the sounds and awesome backglass on this table, love playing it on Pinball Arcade.

You were doing something which was really important on this machine, and that's to have great and relentless aim at those spinners, especially when they worth 1K per rotation.

Played it a lot in the 80’s. And eventually bought a Xenon pinball machine and played it at home. Sold it when we moved because it didn’t fit in our living room. But looking for it again. I’ve found a solution to redesign the room. Love this game.

The pinball of my childhood. Classic!! the best

Can you imagine a hundred of these and video games all blaring at once on a Friday night.

One of my favorite pinball machines all time! I use to smash 💥 this pinball machine back in the day! Easy game for high scores!

always got lots of replays on this via tubeshot, lit specials and mega points where every other tubeshot the specials were lit.

In France it was the most wellknown pinball machin (almoste in all cafe bar lol) Good memories

I wish I had all the quarters I spent, playing that thing when I was a teenager...

It becomes a fever dream of ooh ahh horse sounds and some guy saying ooh as well. A LOT of nothing going on here.

I watched the video of the woman making the voice chips.excellent stuff

This looked so cool in the arcade and sounded so cool. It is really noisy. No depth to the game other than tube shot and multiball.

1,300,000 plus points. I remember playing this just before I left Detroit 35 years ago. The highest I reached was a UN-Xenon-ic 95,000 points.... and I was 10! Anyone who thinks Xenon can't give you fits,blips, and Tube Shots Cuss Central, play this with a bit of sanity. 10 is a wack age to play this, good thing I'm 45, good memories, but I would play this again, but...... I'll laugh and cuss, and CRINGED. Truly it's pinball nirvana at it's best.

She had a lot of fun, obviously.

i played this pinball machine a few times. it was exhilarating at first, always fun, i was able to hit tubeshots...fond memories...now i got 2 kids.

Best... machine... EVER!!!

I loved this one!

hilarious ending!! lol how mad were you

I loved that game and was top at sandown pier in 1981 but tilt was sensitive though.

For it being xenon, that was a really long game

Nice score! during and after multiball, Player favored spinner at about 20k over tube shot at 50k+. I assume because a safer shot. Tube can STDM if not shot accurately, or risk slingshot to outlane if shot accurately.

Ah the original zenon with the bumpers that made men out of kids..lol 🤣😅😂

En 1 ;59, cuando se le va la bola, por la corredera izquierda, hay una forma de recuperarla, consiste en levantar el flipper izquierdo, para que la bola rebote en el palito ( con anillo de goma ) que se encuentra debajo de dicho flipper, para luego, sacarla con el derecho. En ese momento, puede verse como pega en la parte inferior del flipper .

Pinball ASMR

I remember playing Xenon, but can't remember where.

Nice lazarus @ 2:49 mark of this video. By the way, was that specific part of the left outlane, from where the ball bounced back into play during multiball specifically designed to give better chance of having such event?

now that my hands are sweating, and heart ready to blow up...I have to calm down.......thanks....

Hail the algorithm.

Suzanne Ciani legend

I wish someone would remake this game for Pinball FX

Try A Tubeshot. Best pinball machine ever. I only ever saw 1in Blackpool. In the wonderful world arcade next to the pleasure beach

was the glass off when you recorded this? Was a lot of snapping sounds reminiscent of no playfield glass......

The only acceptable use of portrait video

the absence of screen made the sounds much more important and readables ... some machine today are a fuckin mess, voice, screen, table all contradicting each other.

The bumpers going "Ow ow ow" would drive me nuts.

Zarza!

I don't understand why you can't buy a digital version from Xenon (and other popular pinball machines from the 70-th or 80th)

My best score on 3 ball Xenon is something like 10.5 mio

My high score is 2.4548,670

Bummer you got the machine with the revised chip...NO good sounds..lol

А м? То есть я 10 минут смотрел как кто то катает в пинбол? Залепательно!

I hate the way you slap the flipper buttons.