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WMS Industries, Inc. was an American electronic gaming and amusement manufacturer in Enterprise, Nevada. It was merged into Scientific Games in 2016. WMS's predecessor was the Williams Manufacturing Company, founded in 1943 by Harry E. Williams. However, the company that became WMS Industries was formally founded in 1974 as Williams Electronics ...
FunHouse is a pinball machine designed by Pat Lawlor and released in November 1990 by Williams Electronics. [1] Starring a talking ventriloquist dummy named Rudy, the game is themed after the concept of an amusement park funhouse.
Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 pinball machine based on the movie of the same name, created by George Gomez and Williams Electronics, with artwork by John Youssi. Designer George Gomez had been inspired by author William Gibson's original cyberpunk short story Johnny Mnemonic, but based the game and its features, such as a player-controlled glove that used a magnet to lift the ball off the ...
It is notable for being only one of two pinball machines (Williams' 1978 Disco Fever being the other) to ever use curved "banana flipper bats, [10] which made the ball easier to trap. [11] Other notable features are the five pop bumpers which is unusual in a standard width game according to PinWiki.com. [ 12 ] The 'Banana' (or curved) Flippers ...
WMS Gaming was founded as a subsidiary of WMS Industries, whose roots date back to the 1943 founding of Williams Manufacturing Company. Over the last decades of the 20th century, Williams produced popular pinball machines and video arcade games.
Defender is a 1981 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Williams Electronics for arcades.The game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts.
Digital Compression System, or DCS, is a sound system developed by Williams Electronics. This advanced sound board was used in Williams and Bally pinball games, coin-op arcade video games by Midway Manufacturing, and mechanical and video slot machines by Williams Gaming. This sound system became the standard for these game platforms.
Sinistar is a 1983 [a] multidirectional shooter arcade video game developed and manufactured by Williams Electronics. [3] It was created by Sam Dicker, [4] Jack Haeger, [4] Noah Falstein, [5] RJ Mical, Python Anghelo, [1] and Richard Witt. [4] Players control a space pilot who battles the eponymous Sinistar, a giant, anthropomorphic spacecraft.