PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #2 - Williams (Closed)

This poll is now CLOSED! Thank you for showing your support by participating and voting for your Top Ten Most Wanted Tables!

Welcome to the second poll in the PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series featuring 30 carefully selected Williams Solid State tables. This poll will be active from June 23, 2013 - July 6, 2013 with the poll standings hidden from the public. The current poll standings will be visible to the public on Saturday June 29th, after which, the poll standings will be hidden once again for the remainder of the entire poll series. The Top Ten Most Wanted Williams Tables, as voted by the pinball community, will be revealed on Friday September 6, 2013.

The PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Polls are run exclusively by the Pinball Arcade Fans Forum and are not official FarSight Studios polls.

NOTE : Voting is open to forum members only, so if you haven't signed up yet, please take a minute to join the forum and begin casting your votes.

Below you will find links to gameplay videos and playfield pics of each table in this poll, so take your time and check out some of the tables you may have never seen or heard of before you proceed to select your Top Ten Most Wanted Williams Tables. Remember, you will have two weeks to make your choices, so no need to rush.

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Alien Poker (1980) Gameplay | Playfield
Bad Cats (1989) Gameplay | Playfield
Banzai Run (1988) Gameplay | Playfield 1 | Playfield 2
Barracora (1981) Gameplay | Playfield
Black Knight 2000 (1989) Gameplay | Playfield
Blackout (1980) Gameplay | Playfield
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1993) Gameplay | Playfield
Comet (1985) Gameplay | Playfield
Cyclone (1988) Gameplay | Playfield
Diner (1990) Gameplay | Playfield
Earthshaker (1989) Gameplay | Playfield
F-14 Tomcat (1987) Gameplay | Playfield
Fire! (1987) Gameplay | Playfield
Fish Tales (1992) Gameplay | Playfield
Flash (1979) Gameplay | Playfield
Getaway : High Speed II, The (1992) Gameplay | Playfield
Grand Lizard (1986) Gameplay | Playfield
High Speed (1988) Gameplay | Playfield
Hurricane (1991) Gameplay | Playfield
Jack•Bot (1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Jokerz! (1988) Gameplay | Playfield
Jungle Lord (1981) Gameplay | Playfield
Junk Yard (1996) Gameplay | Playfield
No Fear : Dangerous Sports (1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Red & Ted’s Road Show (1994) Gameplay | Playfield
Road Kings (1986) Gameplay | Playfield
Space Station (1987) Gameplay | Playfield
Stellar Wars (1979) Gameplay | Playfield
Swords of Fury (1988) Gameplay | Playfield
Time Warp (1979) Gameplay | Playfield

First!

Well R&T's Roadshow is a must fior me as well as the trilogy of amusement park themed tables(even though I only voted for 2 of them). Fish Tales is a very fun game, Getaway is a great sequel to High Speed and Fire! is unique and interesting. Also I voted for Banzai Run, this has to be made! Also Earthshaker and Diner are personal favorites of mine as well. The last table I voted for is Bram Stroker's Dracila. I have played a very nice virtual version and it is a good pin. Honestly I would've voted for everything if I could, but those are my top picks.

Question: Why is Bram Stoker's Dracula on here? I thought there was going to be a separate poll for licensed tables. (It is based on the 1992 film of the same name.)

Gorgar said:

Question: Why is Bram Stoker's Dracula on here? I thought there was going to be a separate poll for licensed tables. (It is based on the 1992 film of the same name.)

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There will be a few licensed themed tables in each of the Williams, Bally, Gottlieb and Stern polls that FarSight should be able to acquire without the need of a Kickstarter and Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of them.

PiN WiZ said:

There will be a few licensed themed tables in each of the Williams, Bally, Gottlieb and Stern polls that FarSight should be able to acquire without the need of a Kickstarter and Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of them.

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subtle foreshadowing?

my quick pics

Dracula
Diner
Earthshaker
Fishtales
Getaway: II
Grand Lizard
Jungle Lord
Junk Yard
Red & Ted
Swords of Fury

Looks like I'll need to top up my itunes account.

Sheesh! This is going to be a tough one!

Canuck, you're list looks similar to my first choice but I'll be taking my time with this one (again!).

So I'm sitting here going through the Gameplay vids. I watch a couple minutes here, couple there. I get to Black Knight 2000. I've played the game, but I click it anyway. I end up watching the whole 11.47 minutes. That incredible music combined with the mesmerizing light show is just something to behold. I'm already disappointed with the iPad version in my head. The PS4 version tho'...

Tough poll because I had to leave a few out that I would definitly like to see.

so many system 11 games Im in HEAVEN

PiN WiZ said:

There will be a few licensed themed tables in each of the Williams, Bally, Gottlieb and Stern polls that FarSight should be able to acquire without the need of a Kickstarter and Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of them.

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That is a nice surprise. Very excited to hear that. This will definitely get my first vote.
The other 9 votes will be tough. Too many good pins in this group. Man, I thought the EM vote was tough.

Kolchak357 said:

Too many good pins in this group.

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It's funny how many were already saying that FarSight was running short of tables to choose from that could carry a table pack...and there's still four polls following this one consisting of 120 more tables, many of which could easily carry a table pack.

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kimkom said:

Sheesh! This is going to be a tough one!

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+30!

For me, THIS was the golden age of pinball. I know and want at least 20 of these tables after a quick scan through the list.

I guess I'll just have to sneakily register two more PAF accounts so I can vote for 'em all. Kidding!

That was easy! I've played most of these tables in real life, so it was pretty easy to choose.

Banzai Run
Black Knight 2000
F-14 Tomcat
Fish Tales
The Getaway: High Speed II
High Speed
Jack•Bot
Junk Yard
Red & Ted’s Road Show
Road Kings

DeeEff said:

For me, THIS was the golden age of pinball. I know and want at least 20 of these tables after a quick scan through the list.

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Couldn't agree more. Throw in a few Data East tables (Star Wars in particular) and this is the list of machines I grew up on.

I'm old enough to have appreciated the EM poll, but this Williams poll will be tough to narrow down. Some initial thoughts...

...snip... Bad Cats only sold 2,500, but the ruleset is quite impressive. This table places a premium on setting up high scoring shots. Consecutive shots to the left ramp are particularly fun, with the possibility of a 20 million point shot. Choking on the last loop is quite painful.

The cat (and dog) sounds are whimsical, and the spinning "curiosity" wheel adds a nice touch.

Bad Cats also has a progressive jackpot feature (it builds across multiple games, based upon a percentage of each player's score.) The jackpot is lit by completing a bank of drop targets seven times to spell out (you guessed it) B-A-D-C-A-T-S. Even after that impressive accomplishment, you still have to shoot the center ramp to score the jackpot.

Flash is quite the historic game. It was the first big seller for Williams (approaching 20,000 in the late seventies/early eighties.) It was the first to use flash (of course) lamps under the table, just for ambiance. It also was the first table to use dynamic background sound... snip.

I could talk about technological advances in High Speed, but I'll just give you a Steve Richie quote: "It was based on a true story. I was actually chased by the cops at 146 mph in my 1979 Porsche 928."

Thanks for another well constructed poll. Always hard to chose from so many spectacular games but I believe you did a fine job selecting the top 30 Williams machines

A bit surprised that you consider Dracula a soft license Pin Wiz. I really hope you know something we mortals do not

Voted these 10 but I'll take anyone of those 30 any day of the week

Edit: If anyone is not familiar with: "http://pinball.org/videos/" I highly recommend you take a look at the videos they have there for a more in depth view

Dracula
Earthshaker
F-14
Fish tales
Getaway
Highspeed
Junkyard
No fear
Red & Ted
Swords of Fury

I updated the gameplay video links for Bad Cats (1989) and Flash (1979) to point to videos with better audio of each table.