Up for sale is a rare Williams Hot Tip EM, one of the very best EM's ever produced by this company. This is not the typical SS, but rather the hard-to-find EM version. This was also the very last four-player Williams mechanical pinball ever produced, with a production run of only 1,300. The unique playfield is very much like that of just a solid-state, consisting of six drop targets, spinner, kick-out saucers and even a captive-messenger ball.

What makes the EM version a much better game in my opinion are the rules, which greatly differ from the SS. The EM version is based more on feature points than bonus points... Example; Spinner is worth 1,000 points when lit on the EM instead of just 100 points on the SS. Messenger ball is worth 30,000 points when lit instead of just 3,000 points on the SS. This makes the spinner a much more satisfying shot when lit on the EM. Also, the drop targets are very complex in the way they progress throughout the ball-in-play; first time completed lights spinner, second time lights extra ball feature and drops are worth 1000 points, third time lights drops for 10,000 points each and lights specials! That's a lot of info for an EM to keep track of and what makes this such a great game.

This machine has been completely gone through; each relay cleaned and adjusted, the playfield has been shopped with all new rubber rings and lamps. All the red posts were removed and cleaned and new flippers were added with green flipper rings, (which goes great with the playfield colors). Playfield is nice, but does have the common insert wear and typical Williams light flaking on the backglass. (The backglass looks nice for what it is. It's all original, no touchups, and has not been sealed.) Each score reel has been carefully cleaned with novus plastic cleaner and they look very nice.

I prefer not to ship, but willing to drive the game for a fee. I will ship if you provide the shipping pickup.