Around 350 of these. Some collectors will stop at nothing to find one.

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Probably the solid state version.

It was over thirty years before I came across a nice EM Joker Poker. I remembered it was fun to win on.

There are no records saying how many Williams Rockets were made. My best guess is around 300. That was in 1959. If you can nab a survivor, it is a fun game.

What is an EM Evel Knieval going for these days? Looks like the made around 150 of those.

Here's one even rarer than an EM Charlies Angels or Evel Knievel. A solid state Williams Grand Prix with 5 units made.

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I get the same thing with my Williams Magic Clock. There is no record of how many were made and only two pinsiders including myself have one in their collection. I'm the only pinballer in the area I know of that has a built in spot on a machine to set my drink down.

As far as value is concerned? Priceless..
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Thanks! It is a real fun game and we play it every day. Works like a champ!

1960. Funny, I've got five games from that year now. They are all somewhat rare.

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1515

I've been picking up quite a few older machines where there are probably few survivors as they come my way. Some I feel are rarer than others but have no record of production runs. Williams was not doing big runs of machines until the 60s. This Speed Way from 1948 must be one of only a handful left in the world. It has a track that circles the playfield like came on Nascar years later.

I paid $400 for it but the real value to me is that I'm going to bring it back to life and we're going to get to look at it and play it.

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Some things are more than obvious.

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The only thing in this world that I really put extra value on for it's rareness is.... steak.

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I've never heard of that one before, but a friend of mine does have one of these.

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5000

Skip the knife and just go take a chomp.

Those are both very rare in this part of the country.

Sheer genius!
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/converting-ems-to-sss-and-creating-replica-machines

I read that he did it as a joke when he worked for Bally. Background story on it is here.

http://bgresto.com/?p=666

If not maybe she got the big D instead.