Williams

White Water

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This game received 954 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 8.372 _/10

8.372

Top 100 ranking

This game ranks #46 in the Pinside Pinball Top 100.

Score breakdown

Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:

Game Design: 8.562

Artwork: 8.301

Sounds/Music: 7.657

Other Aspects: 8.609

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7.966

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7.864/10

2 years ago

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Johnhell

Pinside apprentice

Unknown

3y 8,750 8 8

Good game and fun to play.wet willie and
Vacation jackpot is the main goal.
Overall a fun game with lots to do .

Johnhell currently owns this game.

7.536/10

2 years ago

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TwirlingFern

Inactive member

Unknown

2y 7,500 31

Game is decent. Pretty brutal tight lower playfield. Game rules are not exactly clear but it is clear what I need to shoot for based on the lights. Multiball drains extremely quicly.

9.740/10

2 years ago

JMO

PinDaddyDrain

Pinside member

Unknown

3y 25,500 1 54

Probably my favorite table ever. Most likely due to the nostalgia…but also because the theme and sounds and play field are so awesome!

PinDaddyDrain has this game on the wishlist.

7.931/10

2 years ago

OCP

Grail game for me that I owned, and then recently sold. The ramps are amazing, the shots feel fantastic, flow is great, music I love, callouts, it seems to have it all. But I found the right hand side of the playfield is amp packed so if you're not on the upper section, you're nowhere. Ie the lower playfield is super small and narrow. It's fun to go for the modes and hit the flashing arrows, but if you just want to have a casual hit there's not a lot of variety. I also stumble with the fact some of the modes in multi ball require an accurate shot with the upper flipper, but I'm too busy working the lower ones! I'm average though so that's on me. Overall I did really enjoy it, don't think they're quite worth the money they're commanding right now, would own again if the price was right.

8.671/10

2 years ago

VEE

Veemonroe

Pinside member

London

2y 55,550 205 7 176

I’ve played White Water on the Williams pinball app and, also, on a somewhat broken/un-shopped White Water at London’s Flip Out venue.

I love this machine. Largely to do with the theme, which is perfect for the lakeside holiday cottage that I will never own in a US national forest somewhere. The shots are challenging and I enjoy the raft progression through the game and the skill required to make key shots.

I especially love the ‘rapids’ left ramp, the whirlpool and the upper playfield skill shot. The Yeti/Sasquatch toy is a little tacky/naff, which is a shame, because the rest of the playfield toys… or, rather, the playfield mountains, are great.

Veemonroe edited previous rating on May 02, 2022.

9.520/10

2 years ago

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Pinpinar

Inactive member

Unknown

3y 2,750 11

Fun fun fun

9.623/10

2 years ago

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Dogballs

Inactive member

Rosemount, MN

12y 19,250 6 26

One of the most fun pins out there. The only problem I have with this game is the parts and ramps on the playfield break with normal play. The quality or design should have been better to avoid this. Even though most of these have broken ramps and parts all over the playfield, it is still a fun game to play.

8.588/10

2 years ago

BMW

Pinbenny

Inactive member

Adelaide

2y 0 1 8

Intense but satisfying.
When you get your zone on very rewarding. Fast and testing!

7.318/10

2 years ago

DL

Pinside member

Saint Albans Town, VT

3y 46,650 5 7 179

Another brilliant WPC game!!

8.569/10

2 years ago

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pat4race

Inactive member

Unknown

3y 19,000 1 73

Nicely designed playfield with ramps and “rapids” - great fun, but costly to learn on a public machine, as there seem to be a lot of quick drains with no ball save.

8.064/10

2 years ago

BUZ

buzz11

Pinside member

Gold Coast

12y 33,000 5 29

This a great game , excellent playfield assets , lots of ramps ,, a fun pin , only going up in value .

buzz11 has this game on the wishlist.

5.858/10

2 years ago

PIP

pipo

Pinside member

Zaragoza

4y 16,000 42

machine for tournaments, to have at home it becomes very repetitive. much shot to the middle without stopping

2 Pinsiders flagged this.

9.184/10

3 years ago

FEV

Fevrieros

Inactive member

Châlons-en-champagne

3y 0 4 17

You can pkay again and again
Amazing jackpot vacancy

Fevrieros currently owns this game.

9.616/10

3 years ago

MBC

radfordian3505

Pinside+ Frequent

Radford, VA

6y 89,550 763 9 52 1

This game has really grown on me and currently about to get my 1st one this week.at first I overlooked this game at my local arcade bc of poor original lighting( incandescent) and it didn't work 100%. But I played a nice one at a friends and man I'm hooked.this game has got to be one of the best original license pinball ever designed only behind MM and AFM Ofcourse. The rule set is what makes this game shine with the changing of music with every raft completed to the moving sasquatch. This game will not be leaving my collection anytime soon once I get it. It is definitely better than 99% of the games being produced lately only EHOH is better and guess what same designer. Give it a chance and guarentee it will not disappoint.

radfordian3505 has this game on the wishlist.

3 Pinsiders starred this!

8.812/10

3 years ago

LXL

Isochronic_Frost

Saratoga Silverball

7y 221K 9,402 108 1 1

Wish I had more time to really get to know this game. On the surface just spending a few dozen games on it, it’s easy to understand why it’s so popular.

10.000/10

3 years ago

STV

Nomadwltnot17

Pinside+ Addict

Mantua Township, NJ

3y 36,900 25 7 11 2

I’ve had this game in my lineup for 10 years and it’s going no where

Nomadwltnot17 has owned this game in the past.

5 Pinsiders starred this!

9.140/10

3 years ago

JDE

lostballchamp

Pinside member

Archer Lodge, NC

8y 40,150 11 17 17

Very fun and visually pleasing machine!!

lostballchamp currently owns this game.

8.563/10

3 years ago

JOX

Joxxx

Pinside member

Fondi

3y 23,250 11 14

A classic 90's era pinball. Still one of my favourite. Great flow, good rules, very fun machine. After one play, you want to play it again. The original topper is a gem. Must have!

Joxxx edited previous rating on December 30, 2021.
Joxxx currently owns this game.

7.828/10

3 years ago

AWP

rapidflipper

Pinside member

Mooresville, NC

3y 41,300 153 2 23

White water is a classic, and somewhat unique theme. Wonderful ramp shots, and very rewarding “shoot the blinking light” gameplay. Getting to wet willies definitely feels like an accomplishment, and once you are good at hitting the difficult shots, you can progress they are fairly regularly. The game has good flow and variety of shots. The only critique would be for home use, the rules are not so deep.This is a title I would see owning for a few years, then moving on. Would definitely only one at some point.

rapidflipper has this game on the wishlist.

6.582/10

3 years ago

PPP

proco

Pinside member

6y 53,550 55 32

Games played: ~25, >100 on Pinball Arcade

Layout/Toys:
Good layout focused on making the ramps as fun as possible.
This is the perfect example of how a designer can use the height of the playfield all the way from the top to the bottom.
The "upper playfield" is incredibly simple but works well.

Rules:
This is the low point of the game.
There are really only 2-3 objectives: getting through the rafts, multiball, and plaing whirlpool modes while doing so.
The balancing is also really off with the 3x Jackpot and x5 from playfield multiplier overpovering everything else.

Display/Lighting/Integration:
Lighting is very basic and uninteresting because of the basic rules.
Animation is ok-good overall with the muliball locks and start as the most memorable moments.

Gameplay:
Incredibly smooth and flow-y ramp shots and loops which make the game very fun, especially with those two shots from the upper flipper.
The bad part about the gameplay is the plunge, which need to be soft enough to roll back down. Trying this over and over is just annoying.

Art:
Incredible sculpted playfield art package with the mountain range and the bigfoot.
Backglass/topper and cabinet art look good as well.

Sound:
Very clever to start with pretty relaxed music that gets more intense the further you progress through the game.
Sound is lacking. It mostly announces the shots made, some grunts by the yeti and some whistle noises.

Theme:
The comination of the ramp shots with rafting works well.

Lastability/Fun:
It is fun, but only for a few games at a time.
The plunge is just plain annoying, and then the gameplay mostly revolves around hitting the middle shots to lock balls, followed by either shooting the whilpool for a mode or the insanity falls to light it.
With the imbalanced scoring and/or lacking secondary objectives there is just not that much else to go for in terms of things that are fun and also give a good reward.

proco edited previous rating on March 21, 2022.

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