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The Williams Pinball Controller (WPC) is an arcade system board platform used for several pinball games designed by Williams and Midway (under the Bally name) between 1990 and early 1999. It is the successor to their earlier System 11 hardware ( High Speed , Pin*Bot , Black Knight 2000 ).
1967 Williams Pinball Game with a Beatles theme, "Beat Time". Stanford engineering graduate Harry Williams entered the coin-operated amusement industry in 1933 and helped popularize several important pinball innovations such as the tilt mechanism, electrically-powered scoring holes, and the ability to win a free play by achieving a certain score.
Williams Electronics was a prolific user of the processor, which was deployed in Defender, Stargate, Joust, Robotron: 2084, Sinistar, and other games. The 6809 CPU forms the core of the successful Williams Pinball Controller. The KONAMI-1 is a modified 6809 used by Konami in Roc'n Rope, Gyruss, and The Simpsons. [19]
Pinball 2000 was the last pinball hardware and software platform developed by major pinball manufacturer Williams, and was used in the machines Revenge From Mars (under the brand name Bally) and Star Wars Episode I (under the brand name Williams) before Williams exited the pinball business on October 25, 1999.
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Whirlwind is a pinball machine produced by Williams in 1990 and was one of the last Williams System 11b games. It was designed by Pat Lawlor , [ 1 ] who created a previous natural disaster-themed pinball for Williams, Earthshaker! .
Pin-Bot was available with more realistic graphics as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms along with The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot and Jack-Bot (the successors). None of these three tables are available due to WMS license expiration on June 30, 2018. Pin*Bot is included in the Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection.
The table is the first Williams WPC machine designed to feature a dot-matrix display. But due to the long design phase, Gilligan's Island is the first manufactured with a DMD. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the first game to feature an autoplunger (replacing the traditional plunger ), as well as a ball-firing cannon (dubbed, "Gun Grip Ball ...