My brother and I worked for Auction company... WE dealt in everything from cars to video games to estate sales .. we had full arcade at our house and even over the new wave video disk games such as Mach 3 ... This was our very favorite game!!!.. if you forgot and left it on... Middle the knight the Black night challenge you would Scare crap out of you!!!... But we to loved it and still to this day wish we had it back!!!... Thank you for this video . Heartwarming memory... Yes I cried watching you play it . Many Kool memories!!! Again thank you!!!
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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)
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.
Yes this is the actual Black Knight I was playing at the Family Fun Center near my childhood home. I was only Eleven years old when I started dumping Tokens into this machine. That's amazing that you ran into a BK that was still new in the box. If you haven't seen it check out my Video of my HUO 1980 Williams Blackout Pinball Machine. This machine was won on the Price Is Right in 81 and sat in a home for many years with minimum play until I got it a few years ago. This game still looks brand new.
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.
There is no difference in speech roms on the 1980 Black Knight Machines to make one sound different than the other. There was the Black Knight 2000 Pinball Machine that was released in 1989 that had the normal sounding darker voice. I have a video up on my channel on that game as well. Robotron did not have a speech board, so it did not talk. Sinistar was the video game that did.
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
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. :)
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 UA-cam for a video called "Cavaleiro Negro todas as vozes", to hear all the lines from this pinball machine in "portuguese". sort of :)
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?
Robotron came out two years after Black Knight. Williams 1980 Firepower is where most of these classic William's games sounds originally came from. Most Williams pinballs and Video Games were using the same sounds that can be heard in Firepower.
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.
My brother and I worked for Auction company... WE dealt in everything from cars to video games to estate sales .. we had full arcade at our house and even over the new wave video disk games such as Mach 3 ... This was our very favorite game!!!.. if you forgot and left it on... Middle the knight the Black night challenge you would Scare crap out of you!!!... But we to loved it and still to this day wish we had it back!!!... Thank you for this video . Heartwarming memory... Yes I cried watching you play it . Many Kool memories!!! Again thank you!!!
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.
This is was my favorite pinball of all time!
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.
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 !
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"
Oh boy, brings back so memories. Glad you had a game where all aspects were displayed. Thanks for posting.
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.
Incredible story and machine. Dude, TRIPLE Magna-Save! WOW. Very well played, monster game.
I LOVE THIS MACHINE
Finally, the content on Black Knight that isn't BK2000! I really wanted to check what the original was like.
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.
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)
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.
I put so many quarters in that one !!! lol omg watching the game play brought back so many memories !!! ohhh man !
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.
Yes this is the actual Black Knight I was playing at the Family Fun Center near my childhood home. I was only Eleven years old when I started dumping Tokens into this machine. That's amazing that you ran into a BK that was still new in the box. If you haven't seen it check out my Video of my HUO 1980 Williams Blackout Pinball Machine. This machine was won on the Price Is Right in 81 and sat in a home for many years with minimum play until I got it a few years ago. This game still looks brand new.
This game was absolutely everywhere for years. At least a decade or more. From the flashest arcade to the dingiest fish & chip shop.
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.
There is no difference in speech roms on the 1980 Black Knight Machines to make one sound different than the other. There was the Black Knight 2000 Pinball Machine that was released in 1989 that had the normal sounding darker voice. I have a video up on my channel on that game as well. Robotron did not have a speech board, so it did not talk. Sinistar was the video game that did.
I had this game in my house growing up in the 80’s
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
That is an awesome story!
Thanks for playing the full game, I feel like I'm 12 again for a few minutes.
Next to a Blackout..my favs.
The sounds of this game in the 80s was amazing.
Black Knight was the game. So many kids of the early 80s remember it.
Joust stole so many of its sound effects.
Beautiful machine. I enjoyed hearing your story about how you got it. You have some great skills at playing this.
Thank you very much!
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!
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. :)
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 UA-cam for a video called "Cavaleiro Negro todas as vozes", to hear all the lines from this pinball machine in "portuguese". sort of :)
MULTIBALL!!! IS THE BEST!!!
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?
The "Black Knight Returns" is not one of the sayings. but it does have a few different sayings that use the words "Black Knight Again".
I know this is a 3 year old video but ,Dude I loved that game !!
Williams always loved using their sounds from other arcades. This one uses “robotron”.
Robotron came out two years after Black Knight. Williams 1980 Firepower is where most of these classic William's games sounds originally came from. Most Williams pinballs and Video Games were using the same sounds that can be heard in Firepower.
@@727PENGO I did not know that. Thanks!
Totally forgotten the whistling sound.
Kinda reminds of nintendo blades of steel.
What do you have to do to achieve that?
You have to light all the arrows on the drop targets to lite the extra ball. Once you light the extra ball this will give the whistle sound.
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.
That you for the memories :-)
I have a Black Knight, its definitely a keeper, 2nd best Firepower..