Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?

There's something about this machine. As soon as I pull the trigger of the magnum .44 shaped ball shooter a strange sensation comes over me and with my jaw set forward in a Clint Eastwood kind of way I wait for the ball to first hit my flipper. The hard rockin' (Vince Pontarelli) metal guitar licks start screaming as the bad guys announce themselves with quotes like "I've been locked up for ten years, I'm dying for some payback!". My first mode, The barroom brawl, starts and before I know it I'm redecorating some downtown San Fransico bar with my bare hands.

Dirty Harry may well be one of the most violent Williams pins of the nineties. It's an almost perfect match to the popular series of movies, the first of which premiered way back in 1971 starring Clint Eastwood as the cynical and blunt police officer "Dirty" Harry Callahan. It's fifth and last installment had a worldwide release in 1988, which is still six years before the release of this pinball machine. These may be the reasons why Dirty Harry is an underrated machine: The people old enough to know the movies often cannot appreciate the violence in the pinball machine (I know I wouldn't if I had young children myself) and the younger folks often don't know the movies at all. Being as it may, you can often find a Dirty Harry for well under a thousand dollars, but it is also quite a rare find in personal gamerooms.