Williams
Comet Pinside Rating
This game received 138 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 7.336 /10
Comet
Score breakdown
Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:
Game Design: 7.478
Artwork: 7.54
Sounds/Music: 6.105
Other Aspects: 7.57
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5.592/10
4 months ago
Champaign, IL
A pretty good game for its time. The center ramp, motorcycle jump and the corkscrew are good features. I agree with some of the other comments that the lighting is too dark, and it plays pretty slow by modern standards.
9.290/10
9 months ago
Winnipeg, MB
Comet is a fun classic, The first machine with One Million point shot, and always fun to go after, spell 1-9-8-6 from the top lanes on ball #3 and the one million shot is activated up the cycle ramp and you have ~20 seconds to get it. Love the old System 9 sound effects.
8.887/10
1 year ago
The game is very fun to play the million point shot is very fun to get but when you do it very rewarding. A few drawbacks: (1) on the backglass there is a caricature that can be construed as racist, (2) the speech "hey turkey, hit me" sounds very often that makes it annoying. The music and sounds fit the fair theme and are fun and interesting. Wonderful and clever crowd scene and fair details throughout the playfield. Everyone who comes over loves to play it.
6.468/10
2 years ago
I really like this game. Very simple gameplay that most can understand. Getting the million shot is rewarding and keeps you come back. Pretty repetitive game play with limited call outs that get pretty annoying after awhile. Game is fun to play and I enjoy playing it .
7.778/10
3 years ago
One of the games that got me into pinball when I was young. Really good game for the time (1985) and based upon how many of these Williams produced, this machine must have eaten a lot of quarters. We had one of these at a 7-11 I worked at back in the day and we spent more time playing that machine than working at times. These machines really need to have strong flippers & slings and be set up properly, but when they are, they are fast and challenging.
Rules are basic and not very deep at all, but easy to understand and for the time about as good as you could hope for. The 1 Million Point shot was the feature that would keep you coming back for more. Difficult, but not impossible. The artwork goes well with the theme and the playfield has a ton of detail and surprises. The sounds and call outs are a bit repetitive and the music is just a carnival sound loop, but they go very well with the theme. Good light show and fireworks when you do manage to get the Million shot!
Very approachable game for new players & casual players and family friendly. The game could have benefited from a multi-ball, but the corkscrew, comet ramp & cycle jump offer more than enough to make the game interesting and challenging. A great representation of a Williams SS machine from the mid-eighties.
Rules are basic and not very deep at all, but easy to understand and for the time about as good as you could hope for. The 1 Million Point shot was the feature that would keep you coming back for more. Difficult, but not impossible. The artwork goes well with the theme and the playfield has a ton of detail and surprises. The sounds and call outs are a bit repetitive and the music is just a carnival sound loop, but they go very well with the theme. Good light show and fireworks when you do manage to get the Million shot!
Very approachable game for new players & casual players and family friendly. The game could have benefited from a multi-ball, but the corkscrew, comet ramp & cycle jump offer more than enough to make the game interesting and challenging. A great representation of a Williams SS machine from the mid-eighties.
7.051/10
3 years ago
I guess I am a sucker for those annoying 80's pinball sounds. The music in this game although repetitive is just plain fun and perfect in my eyes. The artwork and lighting are a little lacking but considering this pin is from 1985 I am still loving it. I know cyclone is the better game of the 3 but I am still loving the sound effects from this machine. May not last long in my collection but still a fun pin.
8.645/10
4 years ago
Comet is a fun game. The drop target dummy to advance the bonus can be a ball draiin. The duck and rabbit bonuses are annoying to collect! Even though it is easy to hit all the drop targets to trigger them. For some reason, I can easily make the right jump ramp for higher points, but when it becomes the 1 million point shot, I keep missing. The pinball game sounds reminds of early Williams video games, but I love it. I like the that music is different for player 4. I love it because the game teases me to get higher points but I fail often. I agree with some other reviewers that CYCLONE is overall a better game, but that is preference of the player. Similar to which is more fun: HIGH SPEED or THE GETAWAY HS2.
8.800/10
4 years ago
I am a bit biased in my rating. Comet is the first pinball that I encountered, playing the rules, multiple times at 10 years old. It is my first pinball love.
That said, I rediscovered Comet at the York Show 2018 after many moons away from it.
I was disappointed, and kind of embarrassed of my past love of it.
At that same show, I purchased our first pin Cyclone. My second pinball love and clearly the better game.
Fast forward to the dead of summer, with the help of the gents over at the project pin thread I was able to talk to the owner of a Comet on Craigslist and secure the purchase.
After a ten hour drive in an air conditon-less car by my incredible husband, we were the owners of an unexpectedly beautiful Comet.
Not only did he fall in love with it, I found my youth again of how amazing this game is.
The sounds of this game is the first thing we loved. We'd leave it on in the game room and laugh at the random sounds coming out of it. The game play is endlessly fun and challenging.
The Dummy, the cycle ramp, the multipliers, the million shot, it's all encompassing with Python's art and light shows.
This is an underappreciated game that needs a second look by many pinballers.
-Chrissi
That said, I rediscovered Comet at the York Show 2018 after many moons away from it.
I was disappointed, and kind of embarrassed of my past love of it.
At that same show, I purchased our first pin Cyclone. My second pinball love and clearly the better game.
Fast forward to the dead of summer, with the help of the gents over at the project pin thread I was able to talk to the owner of a Comet on Craigslist and secure the purchase.
After a ten hour drive in an air conditon-less car by my incredible husband, we were the owners of an unexpectedly beautiful Comet.
Not only did he fall in love with it, I found my youth again of how amazing this game is.
The sounds of this game is the first thing we loved. We'd leave it on in the game room and laugh at the random sounds coming out of it. The game play is endlessly fun and challenging.
The Dummy, the cycle ramp, the multipliers, the million shot, it's all encompassing with Python's art and light shows.
This is an underappreciated game that needs a second look by many pinballers.
-Chrissi
7.756/10
5 years ago
One of my first favorites back when I was a teenager, man this brings me back and it's still great to play trying to hit the million shot is difficult and keeps you coming back for more.
8.476/10
5 years ago
Great older pinball without breaking the bank. Does not have multiball but still has the FUN factor that brings you back. The combination of Ramps with the Jump Shot makes for a nice variation of shots. Some of the shots are not easy to make so require some play time or skill to get them consistently. The game can be a bit dark with the standard lighting. I upgraded to LEDs and this fixed the problem and makes the game look more modern. I actually left a few of the lights out when switching to LEDs so there was no harsh lighting while playing. 1,000,000 point shot is what it is all about! Classic pin.
7.394/10
5 years ago
The inlane/outlane "swap" is different. A lot of fun little details on the playfield artwork. A simple, yet fun game worth a couple plays at a show or on location. Just not enough there to add one to the collection though.
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