- credit
- Jeanine Mitchell — Art
- credit
- Constantino Mitchell — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes
- gameplay_feature
- Spinning Targets ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Solitary Drop Targets ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×14
- gameplay_feature
- 2-Ball Multiball
- gameplay_feature
- Multi-Level Playfield
- gameplay_feature
- Rollunders
- gameplay_feature
- 3-Bank Drop Targets ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Wico Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 25
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- ipdb.model_number
- 72-3955-00
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (14), 3-bank drop targets (2), Solitary drop targets (3), Spinning targets (2), Programmable gates (2), Kick-out hole (1), Rollunder (1), Left and right dual inlanes. Each pop bumper has a nearby target that lights it to increase its value for a limited time. Bonus multiplier advanced by completing four top rollovers with help from lane change capability. Hitting "oil pit release" target or the "water hole" target also spots a top rollover. Each outlane has a drop target blocking the ball from draining when earned by the player. The unusual shooter lane curve will aim a ball strongly shot into play directly towards the left outlane and its drop target. An operator option allows this drop target to be in the up position at the start of every ball. Two-ball multi-ball with double playfield scoring. Alpha-numeric displays. Hinged backbox. The backbox has two portions: a rear portion made of metal which houses the control board and the driver board, and a front portion made of wood and screwed to the metal portion and which houses the fluorescent light box, backglass, and alphanumeric display assembly. The lower cabinet front, back, and bottom are metal while its sides are wood. Two sturdy metal columns elevate the backbox allowing the playfield to extend under it. In the backbox, fuses F1 to F6 each have a lit green LED indicating the fuse is good. Fuses F7 and F8 do not have this LED.
The upper playfield has left and right return lanes each allowing the player to shoot the ball through a spinning target and back to the top of the playfield. At the top of these return lanes are wireform gates controlled by the CPU. The player can hit targets and rollovers to open one or both of these gates. If the left gate is open, the player can complete a ball orbit through both spinners by shooting through the right-side return lane. Similarly, if the right gate is open, the player can complete a ball orbit through both spinners by shooting through the left-side return lane. Completing an orbit with green light flashing will light 'Barren X Zone' insert in center playfield for immediate doubling of playfield scoring until the green light goes out.
Sound: electronic, no knocker.
Factory-installed illumination:
Backbox - one fluorescent tube.
Playfield - all lamps are incandescent.
Cabinet - front has all incandescent lamps.
- ipdb.notes
- This is the first pinball machine from any manufacturer to be produced with alpha-numeric displays. It was used to spell out words and messages in addition to scores.
The Wico manual referred to the upper wireform gates as "programmable" as if to suggest that there are operator options for them. However, the manual has no such operator options. The gates each have a coil to open and close them and are under exclusive programmed control by the CPU.
The manual also referred to all three solitary drop targets as "programmable drop targets" each having a small coil used to drop the target under programmed control of the CPU. Here, however, they do indicate an operator option but only for one of the three targets, the one in the left outlane (per page 18 of the manual) to place it in the up position at the start of every ball. Reportedly, in Early Production games, both left and right outlane drop targets had trouble with their operation causing the removal of the small coil during production. This trouble should also have affected the solitary drop target in front of the kick-out hole such that we would expect its small coil to have been removed as well. The manual does have a parts drawing for both the version with the small coil (the programmable version) and the version without the small coil (used for the E-S-C and A-P-E drop targets).
Artist Constantino Mitchell told us that Wico kept the designer's identity a secret. His wife Jeanine did all the color work for the backglass, playfield, plastics, and cabinet. She also modeled for the artwork.
An earlier game, Williams' 1981 'Hyperball', had an alpha-numeric display but is Not A Pinball.
- month
- 1 → 12
- player_count
- 4
- technology_generation
- solid-state
- year
- 1984