- abbreviation
- GI
- credit
- Mike Boon — Software
- credit
- Jon Hey — Sound
- credit
- Jon Hey — Music
- credit
- Greg Tastad — Mechanics
- credit
- John Newcomer — Dots/Animation
- credit
- John Youssi — Art
- credit
- Dan Langlois — Design
- credit
- Ward Pemberton — Design
- credit
- Dan Lee — Software
- gameplay_feature
- Kickback
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×14
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes
- gameplay_feature
- Vertical Up-Kickers
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 1004
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/Lower_playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/1004f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/1004f2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1004/image-33.png"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.marketing_slogans
- "More Points than Rescue Attempts (Points means features of the game)"
"Charts New Course to Profitable Paradise"
"Gilligan's Back!"
- ipdb.model_number
- 20003
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (14), Kick-out hole (1), Vertical Up-Kicker (1), Middle left kickback lane, Left outlane kickback. Rotating "Jungle Run" circular platform in upper left corner of playfield re-configures ball lanes that enter and exit it.
Actual measured weight: 260 lbs (includes legs).
- ipdb.notes
- Voice-over artist Tim Kitzrow provided the voice of Mr. Howell.
Greg Freres told us that Dan Langlois started this game project as another theme and Ward took it over and changed it to the Gilligan's Island theme. Greg is credited on this game not for art but for more of a "theme support" credit, he said.
First pinball game with a Dot Matrix Display (DMD) released by Williams/Bally, although Williams' 1991 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' was the first Williams/Bally standard pinball game *designed* with a DMD. That game took longer to complete the design and begin production and so was released later.
The promotional video released WMS/Bally also claims the coin door latch was redesigned to ensure the general illumination (GI) is not shorted out on the coin door. It also claims the ball poppers were redesigned to use a single piece mechanism connected by a screw rather than the prior two piece system connected by a pin that caused some mechanical problems.
- ipdb_rating
- 7
- month
- 4 → 5
- player_count
- 4
- production_quantity
- 4100
- system
- williams-wpc-dot-matrix
- technology_generation
- solid-state
- theme
- Licensed Theme
- theme
- Celebrities
- theme
- Fictional
- year
- 1991