Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (2 fields)
- theme
- IPDB Fantasy IPDB Outer Space Flipcommons Catalog Outer Space used Flipcommons Catalog Fantasy used
- credit
- IPDB Ed Suchocki — Software IPDB Tim Murphy — Sound IPDB Seamus McLaughlin — Art IPDB Steve Ritchie — Design Flipcommons Catalog Ed Suchocki — Software used Flipcommons Catalog Tim Murphy — Sound used Flipcommons Catalog Seamus McLaughlin — Art used Flipcommons Catalog Steve Ritchie — Design used
Sources agree (2 fields)
- technology_generation
- solid-state IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 3169 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (16 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Williams used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Williams Electronics, Incorporated used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-33.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-34.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-35.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-36.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-37.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-38.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-40.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-39.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-41.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-42.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-A42.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-47.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-43.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-46.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-44.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-45.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-48.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-49.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-51.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-50.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3169/image-52.png"] used
- system
- IPDB williams-system-7 used
- month
- IPDB 12 used
- year
- IPDB 1981 used
- ipdb.model_number
- IPDB 509 used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The alternate art found on the front of the cabinet has been attributed to the idea of stencils going to two different cabinet makers. According to Williams production records, the initial sales forecast for Hyperball was 50,000 units. However, it was not long before that number had to be scaled back drastically, because the game was not selling as predicted. By this time, more cabinets (and backboxes) had already been made than what would be required for the final production run quantity. The backbox for this game was unique and required a short backglass. The excess backboxes would later be used for the production runs of Defender, Time Fantasy, and Firepower II. This 1981 arcade game has an alpha-numeric display in the lower playfield. These displays did not appear in production pinball machines until Wico's 1984 'Af-Tor' followed by Premier's 1985 'Chicago Cubs "Triple Play"'. The first Williams pin game to use alpha-numeric displays is Williams' 1986 'High Speed'. Programmer Ed Suchocki shares the following information about Hyperball:Steve Ritchie created the original logo for Hyperball. The backglass was re-designed several times and was originally to be screened upon Plexiglas. This was the first Williams games to have an alpha-numeric display. We used the drivers of Player 3 and 4 displays to drive the alpha-numeric. This is why it was a two-player machine. The system was modified to add more lamps to the display matrix. The original matrix could drive 64 lamps while the Hyperball lamp matrix was able to drive 96 lamps. No Production Floor Records available for Hyperball. From Steve Kordek Lists #3 and #11: Production Start Date: Dec-30-1981 Production End Date: May-28-1982 Total quantity produced: 5,000 Product History Record for Hyperball: Quantity produced for USA/Canada: 3514* Quantity produced for export: 956* Total quantity produced: 4470* Price to Distributor: $2150.00 *These quantities may be sales estimates. Audited Sales History Accounting Record: Quantity sold: 4,444 used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Hypercannon fires up to 250 3/4" balls per minute at targets located around the outer edge of the playfield. No flippers. An alpha-numeric display in the lower playfield. used
- ipdb_rating
- IPDB 6.9 used
- production_quantity
- IPDB 5000 used
- player_count
- IPDB 2 used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog williams-electronics-incorporated used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog hyperball used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Hyperball used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog hyperball used