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Industry | Interactive entertainment |
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Founded | 2012 |
Founder | Andrew Heighway |
Defunct | 2018 |
Fate | Liquidation |
Headquarters | Ebbw Vale, UK |
Products | Pinball |
Website | heighwaypinball.com is no longer online. |
Heighway Pinball was a British company, established in 2012, that manufactured pinball machines. The first table by the company, Full Throttle, was released in 2015. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] The racing-themed game features, as a speciality, a LCD screen for scores, info and animations on the playfield surface at player's eye view. [7]
The company's second machine Alien is based on the movie of the same name and its first sequel Aliens. Production shipment began on 14 February 2017. [8] [9] [10] [11]
As of 26 April 2018, Heighway Pinball had closed the doors on its factory, [12] laid off its employees, and was liquidated soon afterward. [13] [14] The rights to the Alien machine were acquired by Pinball Brothers, a company founded by some of Heighway pinball's investors, who began manufacturing as second run of the game in 2021. [15]
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Industry | Interactive entertainment |
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Founded | 2012 |
Founder | Andrew Heighway |
Defunct | 2018 |
Fate | Liquidation |
Headquarters | Ebbw Vale, UK |
Products | Pinball |
Website | heighwaypinball.com is no longer online. |
Heighway Pinball was a British company, established in 2012, that manufactured pinball machines. The first table by the company, Full Throttle, was released in 2015. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] The racing-themed game features, as a speciality, a LCD screen for scores, info and animations on the playfield surface at player's eye view. [7]
The company's second machine Alien is based on the movie of the same name and its first sequel Aliens. Production shipment began on 14 February 2017. [8] [9] [10] [11]
As of 26 April 2018, Heighway Pinball had closed the doors on its factory, [12] laid off its employees, and was liquidated soon afterward. [13] [14] The rights to the Alien machine were acquired by Pinball Brothers, a company founded by some of Heighway pinball's investors, who began manufacturing as second run of the game in 2021. [15]