Stardust seems like a dull game, but provides a surprisingly fun experience.

It is by no means a “stand-out” EM. It is plain and run-of-the-mill. The up post is always a welcome feature in EMs, and the pop bumper nest is 5 individually controlled solenoids!
Wow!
Since each pop is individual instead of tied-together in pairs like other EMs, the ball gets some great action up there and gives some good points and bounces!

It appears the bonus is only awarded if you land in the saucer, which is not evident basically anywhere on this machine. There is no explanation other than a few awards in the spinner feature under the playfield say “collect bonus” not very intuitive.

Overall, a solid middle-of-the-road title and decent in a mid to large lineup.

It is an all time Classic. Norm Clark. A brilliant mix between strategy and chance. Very much fun.

Great early era Williams 70's game. I like the pointy people art work and the bright yellow colors of the playfield. The game plays fast with many ways of scoring. I think this game is under rated as it has so much going on with it.

This EM game has great potential, but has, I think a major design flaw. The potential lies in following different strategies to score: you can either go for the upper stand ups to light the bumpers for 10x scoring on each bumper hit or you can grow the bonus value then cash in – starting at 1000 and growing up to 10000. You grow the bonus by hitting one of 4 targets – two which can be hit directly and two which an only be hit from bumper action. You score the bonus by shooting the ball into one of the sink holes – the award you get by hitting the sink hole is determined by an under-playfield pointer and has the possible awards as 1x, 2x or 3x bonus, open one of 3 diverters or 500 points (or extra ball when lit – does not award extra ball often). The pointer changes every time one of several different targets is hit. Particularly when going for the bonus you can try to grow it very high, wait for 3x bonus and score big (risk vs. reward) – if you wait too long and drain then the bonus goes back to 1000 for the next ball.
The design flaw (in my view), is that I have not found a good way to shoot the ball into a sink hole. There are two, both in the middle of the playfield – the upper sink hole is behind the 5 pop bumpers and can only go in by chance (except by the plunge, thus constituting the skill shot) and the lower sink hole has nothing behind it so if you shoot the ball at it the ball flies over the hole into the pops. You need a very weak shot – how do you shoot a weak shot up the middle? - so hitting the sink hole becomes a luck shot. I haven’t given up yet trying to find a way though: an on the fly shot to make the shot weak or banking it off the post next to it seem like the only possibilities but require fraction of a mm precision.

A typical Williams POS of it's era, looks nice, plays fast , (on high tap ) but very thin rules set, as far as em go. But after a couple games, You have had enough, spinner is cool and nice bells. but a big pass for me.

A very nice Williams EM from the early 70's. Plenty of action with 4 bumpers, two outholes, two gates… Nice playfield bonus spinner that allows tactical choices (collect bonus in the kickout holes while Triple bonus is selected). Beware of the left outlane which is deadly.