Coin Slot Magazine - #046 - 1978 - November [International Arcade Museum]
letters spotted on the backglass remain spotted for the entire game.
Next there is a bumper surrounded with different letters. Only
one letter at a time is lit and wifl change as the ball hits other
thumper bumpers located on the playf ield. On the backgalss ther
are four words painted "Two", "three", "Four", and "Twenty".
All four words can be spelled with the letters found surrounding
the bumper.
in the center of the game, there are two drop holes where the
balls can drop out of the playfield and disappear inside the ma
chine.
As a ball enters this drop hole it spots the lit letter sur
rounding the bumper.
That letter than lites up on the backglass.
Example - Letter "T" would light-up in four locations - i3)wo",
'Q>hree", "Four"d^
Now for something truly unique - if you spell any of the above
words, the machine racks up that amount in free games. Yes,
you could win twenty games!
I never have, but it is possible
(And what a sound it makes when accomplished, just like a ma
chine gun!)
The other thing I forgot to mention was as the ball enters the
drop hole it ejects another smaller ball in its left hand side midget
playfield. Again truly unique, it has four separate chutes marked
A, B, C, and D. The most important combination letter is A.
As a ball enters a chute it permanently lights up the letter marked
on it for the rest of the game. Listed below are the different
combinations possible and what happens as a result If the letters
"A B" are lit-up, then two bulls eyes targets located on the play
field light up.
When these bulls eyes are hit and lit, a free game
is scored. If "A BC" are lit-up a total of four special targets light
up. An if the combination of "A, B, C, and D" are lit up, six
special targets are lit and any other ball entering a chute on the
midget playfield awards one replay.
In the days when my machine was built, Williams only had one
flipper located centrally at the base of the machine. However,
just to the right of the flippers, there was a very strong sling shot
type of rubber bumper that could shoot the ball three-fourths of
the way up the playfield everytime it is hit If the ball was to
leave the two exit lanes it would also kick the smaller ball in the
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mdiget playfield into action. Of course the other way to win free
replays was to obtain certain high score levels.
If you ever have a chance to play this game you would under-
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