For anyone that collects unique pinball games, I hope this gets your attention. I've been the proud owner of this beautiful one of a kind Williams Sorcerer prototype or Sample game. The differences between this game and the production run are significant. While the game plays exactly as the production game does, when I received the game there was no speech board, and there was an intact W10 jumper (green/brown) on the main board. On a hunch, I grabbed a spare Sorcerer speech board, plugged it in and cut the jumper, Voila! All original speech cues were there!

The main differences are all artwork related. As you can plainly see, the colors are wildly different than the original Orange and black's predominant on the production games. The plastics continue the serpent theme from the backglass versus the stone wall motif on the production games.

Other oddities reinforcing the case that this is a true prototype game are the decals applied. Top rollover lanes show "Advance Green X Value" vs Advance green X. The ADV Red X w/l under the ramps LOCK and RELEASE is also a decal. Insert lettering on this game is white ink, versus the black ink with the exception of the shoot again insert and the clear inserts for bonus numbers, and dropdown targets. The 2500 w/l by the right spinner on this game merely states "1000". Production games show "DEMON" on the bottom drop target insert, but this game shows Bonus Hold over.

Probably the most prominent feature is the missing plastic with the Sorcerer's eyes and flasher assembly on the back wall of the interior cabinet above the rear of the playfield.

The Williams Warranty decals all display the same 532 X 20015 indicating game 532 (1985 Sorcerer) and serial number game 15. My research over the years has not garnered any evidence of a lower serial numbered game anywhere.

All the boards (except of course for the added speech board) have the exact same number, so this game has all it's original boards in it, including the displays which are clean, clear, bright and have ZERO burn in them.

The backstory of this game is as follows: I have no proof that it's true, but I'm preserving it for the history. I bought the game over 20 years ago from a well known and large retailer in Chicago. I saw an ad for the game and it was advertised as a prototype, and included pictures on the IPDB including the above mentioned Warranty decal on the front with the number 15 on it. The wild artwork differences were obvious, so I got in contact to learn more about the game. What I was told was the game came in from the original owner, who was at the time they got the game, an employee at Williams, and offered to them in 1985 as a bonus was a pick of any of the three System 9 games they had in the warehouse from original testing/building that year. They took Sorcerer home with them, and owned it until they sold it to the retailer I bought it from. I bought the game from him and have had it since the late 90's maybe 2000. I can't remember exactly. I only did some initial clean up, checked functions, made some adjustments, wiped down the playfield etc. Noticed some battery leakage and removed the batteries, (none have been in it since I've owned it, and the damage over 20 years seems minimal and has not caused any issues). Since then I've stripped the playfield topside, cleaned polished and waxed it. Installed new rubber, bulbs and did a quick flipper rebuild. Added all new red star posts (old ones were full of old wax). New pinballs, original legs, new levelers, original keys and a set of target/drop target decals are included, but the originals are good and also a different color than standard.

The game plays perfectly. Literally not a single hiccup since bringing it out of storage. Starts right up, all features of the game work and score properly through all 4 players. I took some extra time to get the spinners cleaned and polished with a slight drop of race bearing oil and they spin like crazy!

I'm listing this game with what I believe to be a fair value for it based on it's rare nature, as well as the current market for pinball in general. PLEASE don't comment in a negative manner on whether or not you feel the value I've placed on it is realistic or not. I will let the market determine what the actual value is and as such will act accordingly. I don't ever comment that anyone's posting is way overpriced or that the seller is insane and will never get what they're asking because that sways potential buyers. I only ask the same courtesy from other members of this forum.
Not looking for trades, but I will listen to and discuss all terms and offers. Feel free to contact me directly through this forum.

I can help with preparing it for shipping, but will ask that any buyer who's not able to come and get it personally, to know that the heavy lifting (so to speak) will be on their end to make arrangements to have it moved in any fashion they wish.