Williams EM's for TPA

[dave950lam]

Here's 5 Williams EM's I'd like to see:

Capt Fantastic - License aside, a fun game that needs to be added. At his advanced age, Elton John may be more agreeable to letting TPA to make this without big demands.

Flicker - Could be hard to get all the licenses, but an iconic EM table.

Hi-Deal - Cards and a King Kong-like gorilla.

Dealers Choice - Rollovers and buttons plus double-flippers.

Air Aces - Similar play to Jumping Jack but different enough.

 

[invitro]

These games are not Williams, they are Bally. Except for "Second Hand", I can't find this one, wrong name?

 

[Kolchak357]

Must mean Pat Hand or maybe Top Hand. Those are two Williams EMs that he could be remembering. Very easy to confuse the names on many of those old card themed EMs.

For me Gottlieb and Bally always ruled the EM world. But a few more sweet Williams EMs are Grand Prix, Space Mission, Aztec, Triple Strike, Liberty Bell, OXO, and Klondike.

 

[dave950lam]

The game is Dealers Choice.

 

[Kolchak357]

The game is Dealers Choice.

Don't think I've ever played it. Look cool though. Always interesting to play pins with non-traditional flipper layouts.

 

[Snorzel]

Dave, Kolchak really like the suggestions you guys have made. Hope some of them happen. How have I missed Dealers Choice? Looks great

 

[k88dad]

I'd be very happy with Aztec.

 

[Snorzel]

My #1 most wanted Williams EM for TPA is Grand Prix. They give a good view of some gameplay at around 3 min. mark

Triple Strike, Aztec, Dealers Choice, & Space Mission make a top 5 for me

 

[Snorzel]

Since this started off with so many awesome Bally EM's I will leave my 5 most wanted: Old Chicago, Balls-a-Poppin, Nip it, Four Million B.C., and Bow and Arrow. Would gladly take any in the op too

 

[Snorzel]

The top 5 highest ranked Williams EM's on ipdb and pinside besides the ones in this thread I had never heard of before. I was checking them out and thought I would share hope someone else is interested

1964 River Boat:http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1965

 

[Snorzel]

1959 Rocket: http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1988

The only video I could find. I was thinking watching turn it of so the owner can fix it! Geez

 

[Snorzel]

1968 Ding Dong: http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=682

 

[Snorzel]

1968 Lady Luck: http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1404

 

[Snorzel]

1962 Trade Winds: http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2621

 

[heberts811]

Not that i'm old enough to have played one, but Bally's Balls A Poppin, the first Multi-Ball pin, is an amazing EM. I spent a lot of time with it on Visual Pinball.

Gary

 

[Snorzel]

I saw this game mentioned on Steam:

The first pinball to use a ramp. It sounds interesting I would love to see it in action but could find no video. Anyone know of any other game to use the 'whirligig' ? If not, it sounds cool and might make a nice addition to a new machine, lots of possible uses.

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1679

 

[Zorgwon]

Nine Sisters is interesting because of its 2 autoramps on the left side. Ball times are short, though. Williams tables were made for bars and gambling.

 

[Crawley]

I've played 9 Sisters at Vintage Flipper World. It is neat from a historical perspective but gameplay wise people will not be satisfied. You have a single flipper so little control of the balls - oddly you have two flipper buttons still. And you see the ball capture holes in the center of the table for N I N E? Once your ball goes in one of those it doesn't pop back out. That's the end of the ball and you move on to the next one. Which is typical for wood rails with those ball capture holes. Those two table mechanics alone I don't think people will appreciate.

 

[Spork98765]

It's an interesting idea, but I think anything older than wedgeheads will be a very hard sell.

Perhaps, if there was an app that was about the preservation of pinball for the ages or something, and that specialized in making the history of pinball its main focus then we may hope to see these older games.

 

[Fungi]

Perhaps, if there was an app that was about the preservation of pinball for the ages or something, and that specialized in making the history of pinball its main focus then we may hope to see these older games.

That's funny. That's what people think this app is about. Doesn't help that that's what FarSight put in its' mission statement.