Pompeii
shuffle
Th e new. h igh -scoring "advance"
game and su per -action sounds high -
light United's si x-player sh uffle alley
Pompeii. now in full produ ctio n at
W illia ms Electronics Inc .·s Chicago
factory .
Th e "advance" game enables
players to achieve scoring heights
with progr ssive scoring on strikes
and spares and extra frames for
strikes . " Advance " also includes in
th e extra frame s the " flash ing light "
feature popularized in the " flash "
game .
Pomp eii features Will iam s' inno-
va ti ve electron ic sounds system .
Trumpet so unds mark the start and
co nclusion of the game , sirens
proclaim super -scoring hits and a
" raspberry" echoes on a miss . Add ed
sounds for p ins falling. strikes,
spares. and other action also are part
of the Pompeii package .
. Besides " advance ," Pompe ii offers
th e challenging games of " regula -
tion ." " flash ," "strike -90 ,"
and
" 00 ." the latter recently introduced
wi th W illiams' Aristocrat shuffle .
Additional Pompeii highlights in -
clude individual player memory ,
"high score to date " feature on
regulation play and solid state boards
which are interchangeable with all of
Williams' solid state pinball game
com po nents . Complete customizing
features on Pompeii also permit
operators to reset the game action to
meet specific loca tion needs.
PLAY METER , January, 1979
For the
EM crowd
Gott lieb's n w single player . el c-
tro -mechanical pinball gam is now
in production. according to the
co mpany 's mark ting group .
W ith a fla shy rock and roll them
on both backglas and playfield . Blue
o te is the second single -pla yer to be
rei ased by the company during the
last year to sati fy a con tinuing. if
geographic , demand for el ctro-
mechanical games .
The game is con v rt ible to add -a-
ball and features a challenging skill
shot from the plunger to lighted top
roll ove rs with a po tential of scoring
10.000 points . Th e pla yer can earn
an ex tra ba ll by comple ting the
A.B .C roll overs which light
th e
kickou t hole . Special scoring op -
portunities are also made available by
completing th e eig ht Blue
o te
targets which lights a moving and
tantalizing " note ."
A ccord ing to Alvi n Gottlieb . Gott -
lieb' executiv vice president. "sin -
gle players are still making Significant
profit in specific areas o f th Unit d
tates and throughout the int rna -
tional markets ."
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