Dona Elvira

Dona Elvira, manufactured by Irmacor of Porto, Portugal, is a solid-state conversion of Playmatic's 1979 'Party,' reportedly capable of running off the same ROMs as that game. Its exact production year is unknown. Irmacor reportedly imported Spanish-made games, modified them, and marketed them as Portuguese-made products to work around strict Portuguese laws restricting the import of gambling-adjacent devices during the 1970s.

As a four-player machine, Dona Elvira features dual flippers, two pop bumpers, a 4-bank drop target, two single-drop targets, two standup targets, a kick-out hole, a spinning target, and dual left/right in-lanes with an open-elbow design that lets the ball roll from the in-lane into the out-lane — a notably player-unfriendly touch.

No specific theme is documented for this conversion. A later, unrelated machine, SLEIC's 1996 'Dona Elvira 2,' reused the name. As a case study in Irmacor's conversion strategy for working around import restrictions, Dona Elvira remains a notable curiosity for collectors of Iberian pinball history.