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| Average Fun Rating: | Needs More Ratings! 8.2 / 10 (1 ratings) [ Add Your Rating! ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project Date: | December 12, 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Model Number: | 575 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Production: | 450 units (confirmed) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specialty: | Bingo Machine ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable Features: | Trap holes (18). Balls landing in lettered holes on the playfield light the corresponding letters on the backglass to form words. Patent No. USD177,950 [CABINET FOR AMUSEMENT APPARATUS] filed November 7, 1955. Granted December 16, 1958 to Charles G. Troeller, Chicago, and Donald E. Hooker, Wilmette, Ill., assignors to Raymond T. Moloney, Chicago, Ill. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design by: | Don Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes: | Same game as Bally's 1956 'Spelling-Bee' but backglass has different colors. Bally referred to this game as a "recreation vender" for placement in locations that would not accept traditional bingo machines. It has no multiple-coin capacity or variable odds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Billboard, Feb-11-1956, page 94 Coin Machine Journal, March 1956, page 29 GameRoom Magazine, Vol 6 No. 10, October 1994, page 17 Bally Bingo Pinball Machines, page 33 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Average Fun Rating: | No ratings on file [ Be first to rate this game! ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer: | Peo Manufacturing Corporation, of Rochester, New York, USA (1932-1936) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Pure Mechanical (PM) ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Notable Features: | 10 balls for 5 cents. One advertisement listed the cabinet dimensions as 37 inches long, 17 inches wide, and 40 inches high (on its detachable legs). Another ad indicated 37 inches long, 18 inches wide, and was sold "complete with a sturdy wooden stand". The legless game pictured here measured 37 inches long, 17 inches wide, and 8 inches high. A sticker on the lower playfield states "Gold, blue, and bronze balls count double if placed in corresponding pockets." | ||||||||||||||||||
| Notes: | This was the "improved" version of Peo's 1932 'Hi-Ball' having a "new, colorful playing board". The playfield's most noticeable difference is that the parallel ball guides at the top are shorter in length. Irving Bromberg and Company, self-described as the exclusive distributor of this game, published ads in two different periodicals in May 1932, both shown here, spelling the name as "Hi-Ball" in one ad while inexplicably spelling it as "Hy-Ball" in the other. The alternate spelling may have been an unintentional error, as we have no information that the game pictured was manufactured by Peo under that spelling. Perhaps the name "Hy-Ball" was adopted by Bromberg to differentiate this improved version from the original version, in place of having to continually refer to it in print as the "new Hi-Ball". | ||||||||||||||||||
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Marketplace Pictorial History, June 1980, page 11 The Billboard, May-7-1932, page 64 Automatic Age, May 1932, page 54 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Manufacturer: | D. Gottlieb & Company (1931-1977) [Trade Name: Gottlieb] | |||||
| Date Of Manufacture: | October, 1964 | |||||
| Model Number: | 208 | |||||
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![]() | |||||
| Production: | 2,525 units (confirmed) | |||||
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||
| Theme: | World Places | |||||
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (5), Passive bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), Kick-out holes (2). 3 or 5 ball play. Maximum displayed point score is 1,999 points. Tilt penalty: game over. | |||||
| Design by: | Wayne Neyens | |||||
| Art by: | Roy Parker | |||||
| Notes: | A Sample game with serial number ‘01046 S’ is pictured here. The primary differences from the Production version are: 1) Backglass: the words 'Game Over' are obvious when not lit. The Production game does not have this. 2) Playfield: only the white inserts are translucent. The other inserts are transparent. In contrast, all inserts on the Production version are translucent. 3) Cabinet: the front has a blue stripe on the hinge side and a red stripe on the lock side, as shown in the flyer. Production games have the red and blue reversed from this. The game in the flyer has a Production backglass, the translucent inserts of a Sample playfield, and the striping of a Sample cabinet. We show two examples of Sample backglasses. One glass, having partial serial number ending with '076 S', has areas where the reds have obviously faded: the lady's parka and boots, the polar bear's tongue, the musical G-clef, the thin oval loop around the score reels, the striped North Pole, and the letters spelling Game Over. Initially, it seemed hard to believe that the variegated sky all along the top of this glass had suffered from red fade as well, given how remarkably selective the red fading would have had to have been to have wound up looking like the checkerboard pattern that remains, had it originally been the two-tone red like the production glasses, and with even the vertical red squiggly lines having survived. At first, we thought this variegation were original Sample colors especially when we saw how strongly the variegation showed up on our black-and white Sample image from a German magazine from 1967, where the alternating light and dark pattern seemed more pronounced than on any Production glass. However, the alternation of light and dark in this magazine image does not mat In the book The Pinball Compendium Electro-mechanical Era, Wayne Neyens explained that Roy Parker is the artist of this game, not Art Stenholm as previously believed. Wayne points out that he (Wayne) was there when the artwork came in (from Advertising Posters, Inc.). Comparisons have been made by others of the artwork of North Star and backglass art known to have been done by Art Stenholm, on the belief that he is the actual artist of this game and not Parker, noting for example his style of drawing faces and his use of people seated with their legs folded and/or playing guitar. We have not studied all of Parker's glasses to try to determine if Stenholm's portrayals were exclusively his, and no one has approached us as having done this study. Dave Gottlieb had stipulated that Roy Parker work exclusively for Gottlieb. Wayne stated that Parker's last artwork for Gottlieb before his death was Mayfair in 1966, and Stenholm's first game for Gottlieb was Masquerade, also in 1966. This is two years after North Star. Wayne did tell us later that it was possible that Stenholm was helping Parker and that Gottlieb was just not aware of that. We note that Stenholm succeeded Parker as the Gottlieb artist, suggesting that he was preferred over the remaining choices at Advertising Posters, and from this we speculate his artwork would not have been unacceptable to Gottlieb in 1964. We followed up with Wayne about the continuing concern. He comments on separate occasions: Parker was our Artist until he passed away December 18, 1965. He was employed by Reproduction Graphics until they burned down for the second and last time. It was then that we went to Advertising Posters and started doing business with them but with the stipulation that they would hire Parker and that he would work solely for Gottlieb. Now Leroy Parker was an honorable man and I cannot see him coming over to our office and presenting Stenholm's work as his own. I can perhaps visualize a studio full of pieces of paper with sketches of various poses etc. of all kinds and Parker might have picked one up and copied it. But you know that Parker also had a studio at his home where he did a lot of his work. I would also think it more likely that Stenholm copied from Parker. We previously showed a date for this game of September 1964. The new date is per Gottlieb documentation provided to us by Wayne Neyens. | |||||
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Cash Box, Oct-17-1964, page 79 Pinball 1 Pinball Art The Complete Pinball Book The Pinball Compendium 1930s - 1960s Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R The Pinball Compendium Electro-mechanical Era, page 143 | |||||
| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/1683 (External site) | |||||
| Files: | — KB | Paperwork Included With Sample Game (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Company] | |||
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| Average Fun Rating: | No ratings on file [ Be first to rate this game! ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer: | L & R Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1935) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date Of Manufacture: | June, 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theme: | Education - School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable Features: | 10 balls for 5 cents. Trap holes (27). Battery operated. Short backbox. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes: | Sold new for $39.50. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Billboard, Jul-13-1935, page 64 Pinball Ad Catalog Volume 2, 1934-1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Manufacturer: | Williams Electronic Manufacturing Corporation (1958-1967) [Trade Name: Williams] | |||||
| Project Date: | March, 1959 | |||||
| Model Number: | 227 | |||||
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![]() | |||||
| Production: | Never Produced | |||||
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Passive bumpers (4), Kick-out holes (9). | |||||
| Design by: | Harry Williams | |||||
| Notes: | The manufacturer's original playfield drawing (not shown here) is stamped ORIGINAL, drawn on 3/17/59 by Harry Mabs and approved 3/18/59 by HEW. This means Mabs was the draftsman and Williams was the designer.
It’s a pinball with 2 flip | |||||
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| Average Fun Rating: | No ratings on file [ Be first to rate this game! ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date Of Manufacture: | 1956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specialty: | Bingo Machine ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable Features: | Trap holes (18). Balls landing in lettered holes on the playfield light the corresponding letters on the backglass to form words. Patent No. USD177,950 [CABINET FOR AMUSEMENT APPARATUS] filed November 7, 1955. Granted December 16, 1958 to Charles G. Troeller, Chicago, and Donald E. Hooker, Wilmette, Ill., assignors to Raymond T. Moloney, Chicago, Ill. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes: | Same game as Bally's 1955 'Crosswords' but backglass has different colors. This game was ideal for placement in locations that would not accept traditional bingo machines. It has no multiple-coin capacity or variable odds. The game shown here has its lower cabinet and playfield each stamped with serial number S1333 while its backbox is stamped as S333. Stapled inside the backbox is a manufacturer's tag indicating the name 'Bally Crosswords'. This would indicate that 'Spelling-Bee' was not produced ahead of that game. Its backglass shows the year 1956. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Manufacturer: | Williams Electronics Games, Incorporated, a subsidiary of WMS Ind., Incorporated (1985-1999) [Trade Name: Williams] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date Of Manufacture: | June, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Model Number: | 50069 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Abbreviations: | SWE1, SWE:1, SWEP1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MPU: | Williams Pinball 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Production: | 3,525 units (confirmed) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theme: | Outer Space - Licensed Theme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concept by: | John Popadiuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design by: | John Popadiuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Art by: | Dave Mueller, Paul Barker, Kevin O'Connor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dots/Animation by: | Alan Cruz, Jack Liddon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mechanics by: | Jack Skalon, Bob Brown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music by: | Eric Pryzby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sound by: | Eric Pryzby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software by: | Cameron Silver, Duncan Brown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes: | 2nd game produced using the Pinball 2000 (PB2K) platform. Was also available as a conversion kit for Revenge From Mars. Last game manufactured by WMS industries (Williams and Bally labels) before the announcement to close their doors on October 25, 1999. The jet bumper rule of the 1.4 software reminds players of that date. (The number of points for spelling Jar Jar is 19,992,510; This is the date 25-10-1999, the same day WMS announced the closing of their pinball branch.) Ted Estes, a former WMS employee has a story about buying and manufacturing the second to last Williams pinball machine built in the 20th century. Click here. According to Kevin O'Connor at the 2004 Texas Pinball Festival, the Darth Maul character in the video sequence is actually Kevin himself, who trained for several weeks in stick fighting so he could be filmed against a green screen and appear in the game. A number of the final cabinets made for this game had plaques affixed to them indicating sequentially numbered games up to a quantity of 5100. We do not know how many of these cabinets had such plaques, but a number of 200 (unconfirmed to us) is floating around in general discussion. Other cabinets had a different plaque for "The Final Collector's Series of 100". Duncan Brown tells us that these type of plaques were used to move the final inventory out the door at full price, and this was done by manufacturing facility people long after all of the engineering people were let go, the engineering people being the ones most likely to care about this sort of thing, therefore exact numbers for each plaque may not be known, in spite of what numbers the plaques might show. For instance, there could be two series of "100" plaques, for all we know. Perhaps the difficult task of locating and counting available plaques would be necessary to estimate their quantities. In contrast to our stated Production Run number of 3,525 units, Duncan believes they made 5100 units (plus playfield kits), but he remembers being told the number was more like 5,103. Shown in this listing is a one-off game having a gold cabinet. Duncan tells us it was made just like any other game, but with a gold laminate on the cabinet parts instead of the usual black, before the art was applied. It has serial number 5371, a number that he believes was fabricated and not indicative of the total number of games made. He thinks they merely added 200 to the serial number of the last game they saw, since they knew they were done with production and would never reach that number. If he is correct, a quick mathematical subtraction points to 5,171 games made, but Duncan allows that not all serial numbers may have been used to arrive at that number. For instance, if something as trivial as a serial number label printer jammed, they would just skip over the affected numbers and move on. The Dupont Chromalin prototype playfield laminate shown in this listing has pink outlines around the artwork. Production playfields had yellow. Other minor difference are that Anakin’s Hair is yellow and the letters JEDI are outlined in pink. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rule Sheets: |
Rules for Williams' "Star Wars: Episode 1" Version 1.2 ROM (Feb/03/200 Star Wars Episode 1 Quick Take (Aug/23/1999), by Krellan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinball2000.de/ep1_owners_list.html (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional Media: | Promotional Video (at YouTube) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ROMs: | 32 MB | ZIP | Full Set of all 10 Game ROMs | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 MB | 3 | rom set 1.3 | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 MB | 4 | rom set 1.4 | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Documentation: | 5 MB | English Manual | [Williams Electronic Games] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 160 KB | TXT | Parts List | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 997 KB | Pinball 2000 Schematic Manual | [Willams Electronics Games, Inc.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 KB | TXT | ROM Revision History | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Files: | 2 MB | ZIP | PUB Updater File For Starwars Episode I Version 1.5 | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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