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| Average Fun Rating: | Needs More Ratings! 8.0 / 10 (3 ratings) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Segasa, of Spain (1972-1986) |
| Date Of Manufacture: | June, 1976 |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![[?]](/graphic/question.gif) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | World Places - Water Sports - Happiness - Recreation - Water Skiing - Swimming |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), Kick-out holes (3), Standup targets (2), Spinning target (1), Swinging target (1). End-of-ball bonus. 3 or 5 ball play.
Maximum displayed point score is 999,990 points per player. |
| Notes: | Uses standard Williams replacement parts.
The top center rollover is marked 'Extra Ball Whet Lit' instead of 'When Lit'. We don't know if all playfields in the production run had this misspelling.
'Cannes' was remade as Segasa's 1977 'Monaco' with higher point values and some rule changes.
The playfield layout has similarities to Williams' 1976 'Space Mission'. |
| Photos in: |
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) , page 71
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 103
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| Files: | 198 KB | JPG | Instruction Card and Score Card Frame | [Segasa] |
| | 9 MB | ZIP | Manual | |
| | 1 MB | PDF | Mechanism Panel | |
| | 353 KB | JPG | Playfield Relay Drawings | |
| | 199 KB | JPG | Point Score Adjustment and Insert Relay Drawings | |
| | 307 KB | JPG | Score Card Inserts | [Segasa] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | ![[ 7 stars - Click for comments ]](stars/7stars.png) 7.1/10 (11 ratings/9 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) [Trade Name: Williams] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | May 31, 1978 |
| Model Number: | 482 |
| MPU: | Williams System 3 |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 2,502 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Aliens - Fantasy - Outer Space |
| Specialty: | Widebody
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| Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (3), Standup targets (4), Kick-out holes (2), Ball kickers (2), 4-bank drop targets (1), Swinging target (1), Horseshoe lane (1), Rollover button (1), Up-post between flippers.
This game has Dual Action Flippers which allows the inner flippers to operate first, or all four flippers to operate, depending on how far the flipper buttons are pressed.
Sound: electronic, knocker |
| Design by: | Steve Kordek |
| Art by: | Christian Marche |
| Sound by: | Randy Pfeiffer |
| Software by: | Ron Crouse |
| Notes: | William's first wide-body pinball having dual action flippers.
The playfield layout strongly resembles Williams' 1976 'Space Mission'.
Production Run Records for Contact:
Production Start Date: May-31-1978, Jun-30-1978**
Production End Date: Nov-28-1978
Production Floor Quantity: 2502
First ship date: May-31-1978
Last ship date: Nov-30-1978
** Although 500 games were initially approved, only 1 game was made and shipped on May-31-1978. No other games were made until starting Jun-30-1978, a month later, and then games were made with no discrete break in time to allow us to discern how many sample games were made with a pause for customer feedback before continuing with the rest of the run.
Product History Record for Contact:
Quantity produced for USA/Canada: 1485*
Quantity produced for export: 1000*
Total quantity produced: 2485*
Price to Distributor: $1335.00
*These quantities may be sales estimates. |
| Photos in: |
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F
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| ROMs: | 54 KB | ZIP | Game ROM L-1 | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 1 KB | ZIP | Sound ROM | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| Documentation: | 9 MB | PDF | Backbox Connector Schematics | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 18 MB | PDF | CPU Board Schematics | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 25 MB | PDF | Display Board Schematics | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 25 MB | PDF | Driver Board Schematics | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 28 MB | PDF | English Manual (July 1978) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 5 MB | PDF | Instruction Cards | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 3 MB | PDF | Manual Amendment (16P-482-110, September 1978, CPU Board changes) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 7 MB | PDF | Power Supply Schematics | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 19 MB | PDF | Sound Board Schematics | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| Files: | 12 MB | PDF | Other Wiring Diagrams | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 9 MB | PDF | Playfield Wiring Diagrams | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | ![[ 8 stars - Click for comments ]](stars/8stars.png) 7.6/10 (60 ratings/49 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Stern Electronics, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1977-1984) [Trade Name: Stern] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | September, 1979 |
| Model Number: | 113 |
| MPU: | Stern M-200 MPU |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 7,939 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Outer Space - Licensed Theme |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (3), Pop bumper (1), Passive bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), Star rollovers (3), 3-bank drop targets (3), 6-bank memory drop targets (1), Spinning target (1), Standup target (1). Mini-post screw between flippers. Only the 6-bank of drop targets has memory.
Actual measured weight: 225 lbs (includes legs). |
| Design by: | Steve Kirk |
| Art by: | Leslie Kaip, Jorge Obregon |
| Software by: | Alan McNeil |
| Notes: | First game to use the SB-300 sound board.
The artwork on the backglass and flyer was derived from one of the advertising posters made for the 1979 movie 'Meteor'. The original painting for this poster was by noted space artist Robert McCall (1919-2010).
Stern programmer Alan McNeil told us that the mini-post screw between the flippers was known as a Kirk Post (for designer Steve Kirk).
Some games pictured in this listing have a sticker on the lower apron identifying this game as "selected for tournament play". Designer Steve Kirk was founder and president of the Pinball Association of America, organizing major tournaments since the 1970s. Reportedly, these stickers, his idea, were installed on each apron starting at some point during the long production run.
According to an article in Amusement Review (Jan/Feb 1980, page 14), Meteor was the first game for which Stern printed the rubber ring size on the playfield where each ring goes.
Duncan Brown told us that Steve Kirk explained to him that he placed his personal design number on the backglass of every one of his games (in the order in which they were designed). Here are the ones we know:
Stars has SK-1 on the jet wing.
Nine Ball has SK-3 on the wizard’s cap.
Meteor has SK-5 on one of the rockets.
Pinstar's Gamatron has SK-9 on a launching rocket.
The prototype game, Ramp Warrior, has SK-13 on the truck's license plate while the production game, Truck Stop, shows this license plate laying crumpled in the street.
We don't know what games belonged to SK-2, -4, -6, -7, -8, -10, -11, and SK-12.
This game was also manufactured in Australia under license as LAI's 1979 'Meteor'.
Manufacturer data for Meteor:
Production Start Date: 9/14/79
Production End Date: 1/28/80
Quantity produced - full games: 7939
Quantity produced - knock-down games: 423 (see LAI's 1979 'Meteor')
Total Quantity Produced: 8362
Schematic errors & omissions:
1) Switch Matrix page - Memory Clear Switch; R-Y common to Test Switch, W to A4J3-5 (MPU)
2) Lamp Driver board page - 2X lamp goes to J2-15, not J3-15
In the Files section are the factory-issued ROMs with a bug in it, the factory-corrected ROMs, and an unexcitedly long video of the problem that was corrected. A discussion of this bug has been located online.
Also in the Files section is a letter from Gary Stern to the coin machine industry. Although it is undated, it refers to Meteor as their current game. We saw this letter in AUTOMATENMARKT magazine, March 1980, page 67. Certainly, it appeared in many periodicals. |
| Photos in: |
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), page 155
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R
Pinball (Ciuffo), page 135
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| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/1580 (External site) |
| Additional Media: | Symptom of Buggy ROM U1 (at YouTube) [09:55] (External site) |
| ROMs: | 7 KB | ZIP | Factory-Modified ROMs (has bug-fixed U1a) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 7 KB | ZIP | Factory-Original ROMs (has bugs in U1) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 287 KB | PDF | Manufacturer Invoice for ROM (dated 12-17-79, with part number) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 6 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset | |
| | 5 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (7-digit bootleg) | |
| Documentation: | 11 MB | PDF | Manual (possibly early version, some pages typewritten, no schematics) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 3 MB | PDF | Manual (with paginated schematics, pages split into halves) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 829 KB | PDF | Schematic Diagrams (paginated, pages split into halves) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| Files: | 2 MB | PDF | An Open Letter to the Coin Machine Industry from Gary Stern, President (undated) | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 385 KB | PDF | Game Leveler Adjustment Sheet | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 22 KB | ZIP | Meteor Drop-Target Font | |
| | 705 KB | PDF | Self Test Display Numbers | [Stern Electronics, Inc.] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | 7.9/10 (64 ratings/56 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) [Trade Name: Williams] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | January, 1976 |
| Model Number: | 464 |
| Common Abbreviations: | SM |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) |
| Production: | 11,652 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Outer Space |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Kick-out holes (2), Ball kickers (2), Standup targets (2), Swinging target (1), Spinning target (1). End-of-ball bonus.
Maximum displayed point score is 199,990 points per player.
Actual measured weight: 272 lbs (includes legs). |
| Design by: | Steve Kordek |
| Art by: | Christian Marche |
| Notes: | The 2-Player version of this game is Williams' 1976 'Space Odyssey'.
Some of the games pictured in this listing have blue pop bumper caps while others have white ones. We don't know the reason for this difference. The 2-player 'Space Odyssey' seems to always have yellow pop bumper caps.
Steve Kordek told us that the backglass art was derived from a picture he obtained from NASA. The picture surely was of the painting made by noted space artist Robert McCall (1919-2010) which can be seen here.
Tom Cahill, former Service Manager for Williams, told us that approximately 200 Space Mission games were made with steel cabinets.
If anyone has access to a steel cabinet version of this game to make photographs, please contact us.
Production Run Records for Space Mission: 11652 total
Sample run: 206
Production Start Date: Prior to Jan-5-1976 / Production End Date: Prior to Jan-5-1976
First ship date: Prior to Jan-5-1976 / Last ship date: Unknown, remaining 1 shipped out with production games.
Production Run: 11446
Production Start Date: Jan-20-1976 / Production End Date: May-28-1976
First ship date: Jan-20-1976 / Last ship date: Jun-8-1976
Product History Record for Space Mission:
Quantity produced for USA/Canada: 5621*
Quantity produced for export: 6031*
Total quantity produced: 11652*
BOM: $355.99
Price to Distributor: $861.50
*These quantities may be sales estimates. |
| Photos in: |
Arcade Treasures, page 90
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), page 134
Pinball Portfolio, pages 113 and 148
Pinball The Lure of the Silverball, page 66
Pinball An Illustrated History, page 9
Pinball! (Sharpe), pages 134-135, 139
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 91
The Pinball Compendium Electro-mechanical Era, page 208
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Pinball (Ciuffo), pages 106-107
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| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2253 (External site) |
| Documentation: | 797 KB | PDF | B-7894 Jet Bumper Assembly (D.C. Type, from page 3 of manual) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | PDF | Catalog Supplement "P-P-P" With New Parts & Units | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | PDF | Instruction Manual (Jan 1976, no schematics) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 11 MB | PDF | Schematic Diagram (continuous) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 195 KB | PDF | Schematic Diagram (continuous, reproduction, multi-color) | |
| Files: | 48 KB | PDF | B-7894 New Style Jet Bumper Assembly (with more easily removable rods and rings) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 131 KB | TIF | Dummy Score Reel Card | [Gilbert Lovenstad] |
| | 52 KB | PDF | Power Transformer 15B-6782 (50HZ) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 19 KB | PDF | Printed Material Check Off List | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
| | 51 KB | PDF | Swinging Target Assembly B-7892 (for Space Mission and Space Odyssey) | [Williams Electronics, Inc.] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | 7.5/10 (16 ratings/12 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) [Trade Name: Williams] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | January, 1976 |
| Model Number: | 462 |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) |
| Production: | 4,300 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Outer Space |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Kick-out holes (2), Ball kickers (2), Standup targets (2), Swinging target (1), Spinning target (1). End-of-ball bonus. |
| Design by: | Steve Kordek |
| Art by: | Christian Marche |
| Notes: | The 4-player version of this game is Williams' 1976 'Space Mission'.
Steve Kordek told us that the backglass art was derived from a picture he obtained from NASA. The picture surely was of the painting made by noted space artist Robert McCall (1919-2010) which can be seen here.
Production Run Records for Space Odyssey: 4300 total
Sample run: 62
Production Start Date: Prior to Jan-5-1976 / Production End Date: Prior to Jan-5-1976
First ship date: Prior to Jan-5-1976 / Last ship date: Unknown, remaining 2 shipped out with production games.
Production Run: 4238
Production Start Date: May-28-1976 / Production End Date: Jul-9-1976
First ship date: Jun-1-1976 / Last ship date: Jul-14-1976
Product History Record for Space Odyssey:
Quantity produced for USA/Canada: 3549*
Quantity produced for export: 751*
Total quantity produced: 4300*
BOM: $328.23
Price to Distributor: $780.00
*These quantities may be sales estimates. |
| Photos in: |
Pinball 1 Illustrated Historical Guide to Pinball Machines Volume 1, page 243
Tilt The Pinball Book, page 102
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 91
The Complete Pinball Book, page 194
Pinball! (Sharpe) page 135
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Pinball Snapshots, pages 192-195
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| Documentation: | 391 KB | PDF | Schematic_Diagram_continuous | |
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