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Date	*Name (Click to display that game)*	MFG	Type	Prod.	Specialty	Pl.	Model	Pics	Rating
1978-10	Astrologic		SS	1		2p		20
1978-10	Cosmic Venus		SS	1				21	7.0
* indicates Project Date, not Manufacture Date1984-10*	Gridiron	Williams	SS	none	Bat Game	2p	538	8
1975-08	Triple Strike	Williams	EM	3,376		1p	459	13	7.7

Astrologic / IPD No. 5710 / October, 1978 / 2 Players

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Average Fun Rating:

No ratings on file [ Be first to rate this game! ]

Date Of Manufacture:

October, 1978

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

1 unit (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Astrology - Fantasy

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), 5-bank drop targets (2), Kick-out hole (1), Spinning target (1), Standup target (1), Right outlane ball return gate. Should the upper drop target bank happen to reset while the ball is in the large lane above it, to prevent the ball from being trapped against the back side of the drop targets, as the ball rolls back down that lane it crosses a round rollover switch which drops the one drop target in its path, allowing the ball to reenter the field of play.

Notes:

This was a custom-made game for the Hollywood movie "Tilt". The original backglass was lost and a second one (the current one) was created using the original artwork. The backglass and playfield are original creations while the cabinet was reused from a game having a bowling theme (very probably Williams' 1975 'Triple Strike').

Design by: Michael Sehnert
Cabinet art by: movie company artist John O'Connor
All other art by: Michael Sehnert, Delana Bettoli

In creating this game, Michael "Pinball" Sehnert shipped the playfield art, drawn on paper, to Williams Electronics where the playfield and its plastic light shields were silkscreened. Michael then assembled the playfield components and wired its underside.

The backbox did not contain its current solid state components until 2010. During the filming of the 1979 movie, Michael was positioned behind a wall behind the backbox, hidden from view, where he remotely operated with wires the LED score displays, in concert with the playing of the game during filming. The bottom of the lower cabinet did not exist, allowing a film camera to shoot from underneath to show the playfield switching with added special effects, although those shots were not included in the movie.

Additional Media:

1979 Movie Appearance (at YouTube) (External site)

Images:
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Illuminated Backglass 1200x1273 [Vincent Giovannone]	Playfield* 910x1280 [Vincent Giovannone]	Backglass 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Backglass 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Playfield 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]
Illuminated Playfield* 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Upper Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Lower Playfield* 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Upper Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Lower Playfield* 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]
Cabinet - Front 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Cabinet - Front View 924x1536 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Front View 960x1564 [Jay Stafford]	Cabinet - Front View 1048x1548 [Jay Stafford]	Under Playfield 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]
Model #1 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Inside Cabinet 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Inside Cabinet - Front 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Inside Backbox 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Inside Backbox Door* 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]

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Cosmic Venus / IPD No. 5711 / October, 1978

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Average Fun Rating:

Needs More Ratings! 7.0 / 10 (1 ratings) [ Add Your Rating! ]

Date Of Manufacture:

October, 1978

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

1 unit (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Dinosaurs - Outer Space - Space Fantasy

Notable Features:

1 ball per play. Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Kick-out holes (2), 10-bank drop targets (1), Spinning target (1). Dropping the ten drop targets in sequence scores extra ball. All targets must be dropped before they reset.

Notes:

This was a custom-made game for the Hollywood movie "Tilt". The backglass and playfield are original creations while the cabinet was reused (very probably from Williams' 1975 'Triple Strike').

Design by: Michael Sehnert
Cabinet art by: movie company artist John O'Connor
All other art by: Michael Sehnert, Delana Bettoli

In creating this game, Michael "Pinball" Sehnert shipped the playfield art, drawn on paper, to Williams Electronics where the playfield and its plastic light shields were silkscreened. Michael then assembled the playfield components and wired its underside.

During the filming of the 1979 movie, because the game had no MPU, Michael was positioned behind a wall behind the backbox, hidden from view, where he remotely operated with wires the LED score displays, in concert with the playing of the game during filming.

Without an MPU, there is no ball counter, thus the game is 1 ball per play. The backglass shows copyright 1975 but the game did not finish its initial assembly until October 1978.

At Pacific Pinball Expo 2012, Sehnert advised us that he has since added to this game a custom-built 680012 MPU which now drives the two existing score displays and the ball count and timer displays. We retain the images we already have, which best depicts the game as it appeared in the movie.

Images:
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Illuminated Backglass 1200x1272 [Vincent Giovannone]	Playfield 1002x1280 [Vincent Giovannone]	Backglass 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Backglass 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Playfield 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]
Illuminated Playfield 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Upper Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Lower Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Upper Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Illuminated Lower Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]
Upper Playfield 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Backbox - Left* 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Cabinet - Left* 530x898 [Jay Stafford]	Cabinet - Front 1022x900 [Jay Stafford]	Cabinet - Front View 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]
Cabinet - Rear 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Inside Backbox 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Inside Backbox 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Under Playfield 980x1600 [Jay Stafford]	Model 2 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]
Inside Cabinet 1200x1600 [Jay Stafford]

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Gridiron / IPD No. 1090 / October, 1984 / 2 Players

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Manufacturer:

Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) [Trade Name: Williams]

Project Date:

October, 1984

Model Number:

538

MPU:

Williams System 8

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

Never Produced

Theme:

Sports - Football

Specialty:

Bat Game

Notable Features:

Hanging targets (7), Electromagnet under playfield for three different styles of pitching the ball. Bell rings when credits are added, crowd cheers for touchdowns.

The playfield advertises the following three games:
Williams' 1984 'Laser Cue'
1984 Mystic Marathon (video game)
1983 Triple Strike (shuffle alley)

Design by:

Joe Kaminkow

Art by:

Constantino Mitchell, Jeanine Mitchell

Notes:

Same playfield layout as the electromechanical Model 376, Williams' 1969 'Gridiron', but with the addition of three outfield scoring pockets.

This Model 538 is listed in several Williams documents as "Gridiron II". However, unlike other games on these documents, no production run dates or quantities are ever indicated.

According to the book Arcade Treasures, Williams promoted this game on a souvenir NFL game schedule.

Reportedly, this game was made as a kit as well as a complete game. We asked Ken Fedesna, Executive VP/General Manager over Williams/Bally/Midway from 1988 until their close of pinball production in 1999, who provided this detailed information:

It was referred to as GridIron II in all my notes to differentiate it from the original GridIron, so your assumption regarding this is correct. The first mention in my notes about this game was on 6/1/84 where we were trying to come up with a preliminary cost estimate for building it. A prototype build was released, but nowhere in my notes do I have the number of proto units to be built or what was built. On 10/5/84, my notes indicate that the proto cabinets and playfields were due in the following week. My notes also indicate that it was to use System 8, and that we were building 4 ramp assemblies with the motors we had in stock and had to get more motors to build more. On 10/12/84, my notes mention for the first time that we were considering making this into a conversion kit for Pennant Fever in addition to a dedicated version. On 10/29/84 (after the AMOA Show) we released 150 dedicated units and 10 Conversion kits for Purchasing to buy the parts based upon getting initial orders at the show for 150 dedicated games. Production was scheduled to start 12/17/84 at 5 to 10 per day. On 11/26 my notes indicate that production was still scheduled to start on 12/17/84. Then on 12/20/84, the entire production of this game was canceled and all parts on order were to be held until Spring to build more baseball games. At that time, our cabinet supplier had built 45 cabinets, and 60 backboxes and was told to stop. Same for Ad Poster with regards to screening playfields. If I remember correctly (?), the reason we canceled building this game was due to how late in the football season this game would be being introduced. At 5 or so a day, the 150 units wouldn't be completed until February 1985 when the football season was over. So, the reason there is no record of building any production units of this game (dedicated or kits) is because we never did build production units.

We have linked to a video of a game having prototype serial number 538X22005. That game is also pictured here. The flashing bulb on the start button of this game did not work because, although it was wired from the bulb socket to the backbox connector, no wire existed from the connector to the backbox circuit board, reportedly because Williams had maxed out their transistor capacity. We don't know if other games in this run had the same issue.

Photos in:

The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present External Link

, page 143

Additional Media:

Overview Video (at YouTube) [06:39] (External site)

Images:
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Prototype - Backglass* 1200x1600 [Todd Tuckey]	Prototype - Playfield* 1200x1600 [Todd Tuckey]	Prototype - Cabinet - Left* 1157x1527 [Todd Tuckey]	Prototype - Cabinet - Right* 949x900 [Todd Tuckey]	Prototype - Cabinet - Full View* 1009x1470 [Todd Tuckey]
Prototype - Serial Number* 1200x900 [Todd Tuckey]	New Game Announcement 929x1200 [Duncan Brown]	Flyer* 921x1200 [Duncan Brown]

Triple Strike / IPD No. 2652 / August 18, 1975 / 1 Player

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Average Fun Rating:

7.7/10 (26 ratings/22 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]

Manufacturer:

Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) [Trade Name: Williams]

Date Of Manufacture:

August 18, 1975

Model Number:

459

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Production:

3,376 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Sports - Bowling

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumper (1), Slingshots (2), Rollover buttons (13), Drop targets (4), Kick-out hole (1). End-of-ball bonus. An array of 10 rollover buttons in the center of playfield are arranged like a set of bowling pins.

Maximum displayed point score is 199,990 points.

Tilt penalty: ball in play or game over (operator option).

Design by:

Steve Kordek

Art by:

Christian Marche

Notes:

Game is convertible between credit, extra ball, and novelty play.

Production Run Records for Triple Strike:
Production Start Date: Aug-18-1975 (may not include sample games)
Production End Date: Sep-26-1975
Production Run Quantity: 3376
First ship date: Prior to Jan-5-1976
Last ship date: Feb-17-1976

Product History Record for Triple Strike:
Quantity produced for USA/Canada: 2682*
Quantity produced for export: 694*
Total quantity produced: 3376*
BOM: $307.11
Price to Distributor: $612.50
*These quantities may be sales estimates.

Photos in:

The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981 External Link

, page 77
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Pinball An Illustrated History External Link

, page 24
Pinball The Lure of the Silverball, page 70

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2652 (External site)

Documentation:

21 MB

PDF

Instruction Manual

[Williams Electronics Inc.]

539 KB

PDF

Notice to Operators - Increasing Replay Percentage

11 MB

PDF

Schematic Diagram (continuous)

[Williams Electronics Inc.]

Images:
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Flyer 883x1147	Instruction Card 1024x559	Instruction Card 1024x552	Backglass 1024x980 [Philippe Thibault]	Cabinet - Left 400x266 [Dewayne Ervin]
Playfield 461x691 [Matt Hoy]	Cabinet - Right 536x426 [Matt Hoy]	Cabinet - Left 1942x1022 [Jim Palson]	Cabinet - Right 1986x957 [Jim Palson]	Backbox - Left 932x1648 [Jim Palson]
Backbox - Right 981x1713 [Jim Palson]	Inside Backbox 1200x1359 [Jim Palson]	Stripped Playfield* 1200x2129 [Brian Lee]

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