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Can anyone list all of the Bally/Williams widebody machines from 1990-1998? I was wondering if there are more or less than 10 in exhistence.
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Let me know if I've missed any...
Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Star Trek TNG,
Judge Dredd, Popeye Saves the Earth, Roadshow.
That's all I can think of...
2 years later
Also Data East's "WWF Royal Rumble" is a widebody.
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Williams had a the 7 superpins as mentioned, however Atari, Bally and Gottlieb all had massive amounts in the early 80's. Most were large voids of nothingness, but that was the trend "lets make massive machines with virtually nothing to do".
I had a Circus. The cab was massive, second to only Hercules, however that plays with a cue ball, so I consider Circus to be the largest "pinball" machine. I kept thinking "imagine what Lawlor coul do with a WPC this size...."
Can't believe no one mentioned Williams 1979 Laser Ball,kidding it falls into the void of nothingness
however Atari, Bally and Gottlieb all had massive amounts in the early 80's. Most were large voids of nothingness, but that was the trend "lets make massive machines with virtually nothing to do".
I do love Steve Ritchie's Atari 77'Airborne Avenger though. SEGA also made Cha-Cha-Cha let us remember. Even classic Stern's like Flight 2000, Cheetah, Freefall, etc are widebody.
I learned from ipdb.org that Hankin made around 350 sweet looking Widebodies of Empire Strikes Back. Now I just need to find one.
Quoted from mykquillion:I learned from ipdb.org that Hankin made around 350 sweet looking Widebodies of Empire Strikes Back. Now I just need to find one.
Holy hell! That is some serious awesomesauce right there. I had no idea this machine even existed.
Yea, I've never seen that Empire in real life, but they may want to knock that number down to 349 in existence at maximum now.
Yea, I've never seen that Empire in real life, but they may want to knock that number down to 349 in existence at maximum now.
Good call. I'm sure it's way less than that sadly. Other random games by Hankin include Orbit 1 (which looks a lot like Stern Orbitor 1 only less cool) and Howzat! which is a wide body cricket themed game, so take it off the list of themes we wished existed. They also made a game called shark which is a wide body.
Shaq Ataq is a gottlieb and is not widebody. But you were right about 7 williams widebodies, the 7th is Popeye Saves the Earth. I've never never played it and now want to check it out!
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Åkarp
Edinburgh
Took me a long time to get all 7 in a row in order of release. Had to sell them to fund a house build, slowly rebuilding the collection as all 7 are great games, yes, even Popeye if you give it a chance!
Screenshot_20170620-220811 (resized).pngQuoted from JonCrox:Took me a long time to get all 7 in a row in order of release. Had to sell them to fund a house build, slowly rebuilding the collection as all 7 are great games, yes, even Popeye if you give it a chance![quoted image]
My back hurts just looking at this photo. Sweet collection!
Quoted from dglover4569:Let me know if I've missed any...
Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Star Trek TNG,
Judge Dredd, Popeye Saves the Earth, Roadshow.
That's all I can think of...
I have a Mars God Of War that is a widebody
1 year later
Obviously not a 90s Bally or Williams, but Haunted House is a widebody. Beautiful machine (a biased owner opinion!).
Quoted from chad:Maverick I believe started as a widebody.
Wonder if any regular games became widebodies ( probably not)
Definitely seems like TZ could have started out as a standard width game...
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:Definitely seems like TZ could have started out as a standard width game...
Was actually playing TZ tonight and thought it was the only game I can think of that justified the wide body space fully. Can't imagine much of that game would have worked on a standard body.
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Fun fact. World Cup Soccer 94 was originally designed as a wide body.
Steve Ritchie’s Stellar Wars is a BIG WIDE lot of nothing.
Quoted from Yelobird:Was actually playing TZ tonight and thought it was the only game I can think of that justified the wide body space fully. Can't imagine much of that game would have worked on a standard body.
Certainly not with how it ended up, no
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