Police Force was originally supposed to be Batman, but then Williams didn't get the theme. From the little that I have played, it's a great theme and great game for kids, but it gets a little easy a little quick. Try it out though, you might think differently than I!

Sister-in-law is fixing one up as we speak! I can't wait to play it. I remember games of that era a little bit, but more the bigger ones like Taxi.

My daughter loves it! If you hit the center ramp over and over, it builds to make it a 1M-point shot every time!

I have never played it but, it has a...oh...half decent design team?

It's fairly simple, but if you set up the side drains and make the rules tough, it can be challanging.

I enjoy it a lot.

Robert

The take high score feature on the last ball is fun and adds a great dynamic to "stealing" the other person score in 3 and 4 player games. You can be in last place and in a couple flips move to first place. We enjoyed this pin in league play with that feature and is very enjoyable with nice sounds and lights.

This game is goofy as mentioned if you just like to play getting that center ramp 16 times makes for some fun.. I am horrible at hitting the right ramp but I changed something at one point that did that..

You must buy the cliffy ramp protectors for this game ... No questions.
I don't personally feel this is a single pin collection for home use get old quick.. But for on site or multi pin collection it's fun.. Always enjoy finding it on site and running the center ramp like 20 times just to get on the top 4 score

I have one now in a temp trade and I love it. Simple rule set but really fun, great theme and callouts and the steal high score double your score shot is tough. I've always been a DMD guy, but the police force has me revisiting the system 11s.

I love mine, as I do most Sys 11 games.

I wanted it as a companion to Taxi. I finally got to play a few games and it wasn't my cup of tea. I didn't like how you can collect any animal any time.

I finally got to play it at pin a go-go this year and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Great artwork for sure, and a very charming game overall.

I liked it a lot.

It had me thinking about taking over another room in the basement for a "system 11" collection.

Just make sure your skill shot spinner is there if you're buying one. Those things are beastly rare.

i wouldnt think twice about restoring a police force. its a good game that will keep you entertained. dont think of putting money into the pin as an investment, think of it as spending money as part of your entertainment budget.

Great game a classic system 11!

Restoring mine now, fun game.

I enjoyed mine, but the game could have really been improved with some added setting options. If they would have had a setting to only pick up one or two criminals at a time it would have added to the games lasting appeal. As it stands....it's pretty easy to pick up all 4 criminals when any of there hits count at any time.

It's like Taxi or Diner....but much easier. Plenty of sytem 11 charm though.

I've always wondered if Williams did get the Batman license at that time.

I finally got to play it at pin a go-go this year and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Great artwork for sure, and a very charming game overall.

I brought the PF to PAGG this year, Its a fun game. Glad you enjoyed it practicalsteve. I recently sold it to a local who had played it at PAGG.

Here's an easy mod i did on it. http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/my-police-force-car-mod

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I brought the PF to PAGG this year, Its a fun game. Glad you enjoyed it practicalsteve. I recently sold it to a local who had played it at PAGG.
Here's an easy mod i did on it. http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/my-police-force-car-mod

I did the same mod on mine. It seems weird that the topper and the police car in the translite have blue lights, but the car on the machine had red. The white headlights also look better than the factory yellow.

I had another mod planned but I sold the machine before I got it done. I was going to put Dirty Harry standup targets in place of the Loan Shark's orange circle targets.

WARNING, BAD MOCK UP AHEAD:

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Considering that Data East did a Batman pin and Williams never did, I'd say no.

Nothing very helpful as far as mixing the game up. There is a setting for if the captured criminals stay captured on you next ball or it resets them. That is about it.

I would have really liked a "start with 1 criminal lit" "start with 2 criminals lit" ect... settings to give the game a bit more of a challenge goal wise.

There are also setting for how many center ramp hits are needed to build up to the million and other settings like that.

You can find the manual on ipdb and look through the settings than can be changed there.

I played one at EXPO last year and really enjoyed it! It's hard to go wrong with a system 11 pin

I just left everything default. I think that setting might have been a auto adjusting one also, but I'm not certain. So if you hit the million too easily it would then start the starting value for ramp hits lower.

I like mine, cool cheap pin. They all can't be A-Titles.