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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.
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 ).
Pinball FX features a growing collection of tables that includes recreations of classic Williams/Bally tables from the 1980s and 1990s, original designs with licenses from Marvel, Star Wars, Universal, other popular sources, and entirely unique unlicensed creations. Many tables from previous titles have been remastered and included.
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.
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection is a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios and published by Crave Entertainment for Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, [1] PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, [1] and Nintendo 3DS. Players play on a variety of classic virtual pinball machines from Williams Electronics' history.
Black Knight is ROM-emulated only in PC version, but in the rest of platforms this table is scripted, like in Pinball Hall Of Fame The Williams Collection (each platform). Unlicensed recreations of the game are available for Visual Pinball. Black Knight 2000 was also released as a licensed table on The Pinball Arcade. This table features ROM ...
The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot (styled The Machine: Bride of PIN•BOT) is a 1991 pinball game designed by Python Anghelo and John Trudeau (Dr. Flash), and released by Williams. It is the second game in the Pin-Bot series, and is the last game produced by Williams to use a segmented score display rather than a dot-matrix screen. It is also one ...
Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at the time, headed development of Defender. Defender was Williams Electronics' first attempt at developing a new video game; the company's earlier game was a Pong clone. [4] The popularity of coin-operated arcade games in 1979 spurred the company to shift its focus from pinball games to arcade games. [8]