{"id":8709,"date":"2023-10-28T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2023-10-28T01:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:50:02","slug":"taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Taxi, Williams, 1988.<\/p>\n

Hoo boy is this a 1980s machine.<\/p>\n

The framing of this backglass is over the right shoulder of a taxi driver (United States, so he sits on the left of the car) who\u2019s stopped at a red light. As the viewer, you\u2019re presumably either in the back seat or straddling the center console.<\/p>\n

The driver is a bit scary looking, like if Rudy from Funhouse<\/a> became real, six foot tall, and got a job. He\u2019s wearing a red newsboy cap with three buttons on it: MIA\/POW, Say NO To Drugs, and a third I can\u2019t make out.\u00a0He\u2019s also wearing what appears to be green camo with a green patch on the shoulder.<\/p>\n

In front of our hero\u2019s tax from left to right, Marilyn Monroe in her famous red dress stands with two green suitcases, Russian President Gorbachev waves while holding a briefcase, Pinbot stands back from the curb, Dracula raises a hand from behind his cape, and Santa Clause is running up the street to wave down the taxi.<\/p>\n

Marilyn is not actually Marilyn for the purposes of the game, by the way. Williams had a problem getting the rights to Marilyn Monroe\u2019s likeness, according to the Internet Pinball Database<\/a>, and the character was renamed Lola for the purposes of the game. Williams modified the art for all but 200 machines that had already shipped, and sometimes she was a brunette and sometimes a redhead. According to the same source, she was named for The Kinks song Lola.<\/p>\n