Family Guy

Four balls rest on trough switches 18-21 (the machine will not play without all four; an extra mini-pinball sits on the mini-playfield). Q1 lifts the right-most ball, whose position 21 is a blocked dual-OPTO beam, through jam opto 22 into the shooter lane, momentarily closing shooter switch 23. The player plunges the ball by hand with the ball shooter (plunger) assembly, or Q2 (autoplunger) fires it; the manual's Ball Trough Test describes SELECT ejecting the ball at position 21 to the up-kicker, the shooter lane and the playfield, and says switch 22 is the stacking opto that notes additional balls when more than five are used. Keep per-position occupancy and the jam beam rather than a count.

An up/down post between the lower flippers. The manual states that when energized the post prevents the ball draining between the lower flippers. Q12 raises it and Q4 (the 32-1800 mini-coil of the post's latch assembly) lowers it; blade switches 1 (up) and 2 (down) report its two positions, and lamp 69 shows the post. The instruction card says hitting the Death 1-bank drop target raises the post. The retained script asserts switch 1 when it raises the post and switch 2 when it lowers it but runs a three-second timer of its own that the manual does not describe.

Four drop targets F, A, R, T with one OPTO interrupter each (PCB 520-5252-04, switches 44-47). A target interrupts its beam while down; Q3 raises the whole bank (24-940 coil). Lamps 35-38 spell the same letters; the instruction card says hitting the F-A-R-T targets advances Fart Multiball.

One drop target with an OPTO interrupter (PCB 520-5252-01, switch 9); Q6 resets it. Lamp 41 marks it. The instruction card says hitting it raises the ball saver post.

A scoop with a vertical up-kicker: the ball closes scoop switch 13 and Q13 (23-800) ejects it. Lamps 29-31 (TV, Pinball, Multiball) are the scoop's features, and the instruction card says to shoot the TV scoop after spelling P-I-N-B-A-L-L to start Stewie Pinball on the mini-playfield.

An eject hole whose ball closes switch 64 and is kicked out by the vertical up-kicker Q5 (27-1500). Lamp 62 (Drunken Clam / mystery) is its feature.

The left plastic ramp carries a latch gate with a trip coil (Q19, 32-1250) and a roller microswitch (35). The instruction card says shooting the Chris target (switch 3, upper left) lowers the Evil Monkey target and advances the Evil Monkey award, and collecting all five awards starts Crazy Chris. Switch 33 (Left ramp made) is the roll-under switch of the ramp's exit gate. Harness probes of fg_1200ag show the ROM re-firing Q19 from game start for as long as public 35 reads open and never firing it when 35 starts closed, so a closed switch 35 is the state the ROM drives Q19 toward; opening switch 35 after the game had started did not make it fire Q19 again within four seconds, and hitting the Chris target (switch 3) fired the back-panel flasher Q27 rather than Q19 in that state. What Q19 does to the physical target and what the Chris-target award does to the latch are not documented or observed, so the latch geometry stays unproven.

A stepper motor (511-5043-00) on controller PCB 511-5045-00, driven by Q20 through the ROM, turns the Stewie figure to face the Stewie mini-pinball machine (IPDB). The motor has no position switch: the ROM's Stewie Motor Test (F.G. icon) homes it against the raised stop of the motor mounting bracket by pulsing enough steps in one direction and then the opposite direction, and the retained boot-start run shows the ROM pulsing Q20 during power-up.

A mini-coil (Q22, 27-950) moves the Meg figurine so that it bobs up and down (IPDB). No switch reports it.

A spring-returned beer can with the Brian figurine; a ball hit closes switch 49. Lamps 48-52 (Collect Beers, Giggity Giggity, Happy Hour, Remember When, Lard Multiball) and flasher Q28 belong to it.