![]() Black Knight: Sword of Rage (2019): A full 30 years after the last game, Stern Pinball got the license from Williams and created another sequel.A digital version was formerly available for The Pinball Arcade until their license to all Bally and Williams tables expired on July 1, 2018. It was the first pinball game to offer a Wizard Mode, and featured a truly memorable soundtrack with Chicago singers Stephanie Rogers and Glo Van Vlack. The player must storm the Knight's castle and battle him, while a Choir of Angels provide moral support for the player. The Black Knight returns, this time in a techno-feudal landscape (eschewing the more traditional, ornate look of the original game). Black Knight 2000 (1989): The first sequel, with software by Ed Boon and artwork by Doug Watson.An officially-licensed recreation is available in Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection, and was formerly available as part of FarSight Studios' The Pinball Arcade before the WMS license expired on July 1, 2018. The game was copied for Brøderbund Software's video pinball game David's Midnight Magic. It introduces many of the aforementioned features and became a blockbuster for Williams, with over 13,000 tables sold. Black Knight (1980): The original game, with software by Larry DeMar and artwork by Tony Ramunni.Other staples of the series include a two-level playfield (though Sword of Rage relegates it to Premium and Limited Edition versions) and the "Magna-Save", a player-controlled magnet that can be activated to prevent draining the ball down the right outlane. Fittingly, voice clips (provided by Ritchie himself) from the Knight taunt and mock the player frequently. ![]() The titular character is the main focus of each game's theme, being an antagonistic force the player battles as they play (which is made progressively clearer in each subsequent game). The first two were released by Williams Electronics in the 1980s, while the third was released by Stern Pinball in 2019 (under license from Williams, who had long since left the pinball industry by then). Black Knight is a series of pinball machines, all designed by Steve Ritchie. ![]()
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