Michael Jordan

Data East have been known to sometimes build unique custom pinball machines. These titles include "Richie Rich" (1994), "Kabuki" (1995), "Aaron Spelling" (1992) and "Operation Desert Storm" (1991).

One of these unique builds is "Michael Jordan", made in 1992 and based on "Lethal Weapon 3" (1992).

The story is that Data East's employees built this game in their spare time, with the purpose of raising money for a charity auction for the Michael Jordan foundation. All of the Data East vendors donated the parts and time. At the charity event the games (three of them) raised $26,500 each. A total of 7 machinees were built. The buyer of the game also got to name a song that would be programmed into the game. (In the auction, it ended up being Gatorade; the game plays "Be Like Mike", the Gatorade/Jordan music).

These games are still around somewhere. One of them appeared on Craigslist in May, 2011 and another (the "red" version) was seen on eBay in the Chicago area in Sept, 2015