A rock from
heaven
A gam. you
won't forg.t
With the introduction of a memory
protection feature which locks in all
game adjustments, Tri Zone opens
the new fall production season for
Williams Electronics . As part of the
new system, all adjustments can be
made without removing the glass,
and once they are locked in, changes
can't be made without opening the
coin door . Thereupon, an operator is
pleased to discover Williams "total
front end programming."
Tri Zone features the usual
attractive Williams backglass and
playfield and includes the company's
dual sound option .
The game scores according to
bonus multipliers, up to 5X, made
possible by accomplishing the A and
B rollovers at either the top or bottom
of the playfield. T-R rollover features
build to extra ball and specials . The
isolated Z-O-N -E drop targets score
10,000 when lit.
Tri Zone is available with the dollar
coin slot .
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Galactic
dogfight
As a follow-up to the highly
popular Flash , Williams Electronics,
Inc ., has introduced Stellar Wars , a
spectacular new wide -body pi~ball
game which is now in full production .
The new model has a dramatically
illustrated backglass which depicts a
galactiC "dogfight" and a very
exciting "Battlescope" feature which
explodes into a display of frenzied
flashing lights each time a bank of
drop targets is knocked out.
Williams is introducing two indus-
try innovations with Stellar Wars :
triple scoring jet bumpers that score
100 points or 1000 when lit or 2000
when flashing , and an additional
Sweep Sound . The Sweep-Sound
increases in rate as the letters
S-T-E-L-L-A-R W-A-R-S are lit ,
greatly increasing player excitement.
Total front-end programming is
also featured on Stellar Wars ,
marking Williams' introduction of this
concept on wide-body games .
A WOW Bonus , startling new
visual
animation ,
revolutionary
memory drop targets, and a sophisti-
cated new audio system highlight
Meteor , the latest four-player solid-
state pinball machine from Stern
Electronics, Inc . Meteor is based on
the science-fact movie t)f the same
name which will be released by
American International Pictures , Inc .
In addition to the new third coin
shoot for the Susan B. Anthony
dollar coin and doubled ROM
capacity (from 4k to 8k) , Meteor
highlights include WOW Bonus tied
to rocket alignment and Specials and
new visual animation . When the coin
is dropped , all lights and the sound
system activate .
Also included are a sophisticated
new audio system with background
build-up sound taken from the
movie sound track , revolutionary
memory drop targets with remote trip
action, and a variable value spinner
scoring increment which increases
and decreases with Meteor target
bank position .
There are also M-E-T-E-O-R drop
targets held in memory and restored
prior to each player's next ball .
The Meteor pinball game is drawn
from the movie "Meteor" starring
Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl
Malden . Martin Landau , Brian Keith ,
Joseph Campanella , Trevor Howard
and Henry Fonda . The motion
picture will be released by A.l.P . to
selected theaters beginning October
19.
The game , Meteor, was designed
by Steve Kirk . who also designed
Stern's first outer-space game , Stars .
PLAY METER, October, 1979