When I was in college I delivered for a pizza place. Every sunday after work we would go to the local bowling alley not to bowl, but to play High Speed. Nice video.
@@LyonsArcade I remember playing this one while on vacation in Wisconsin with my family, back in the 2000s damn near every restaurant up north had at least one pinball table
Best Pinball machine ever! Love it since back in 1986. Actually have my own High Speed machine given to fully restauration wich will cost a bloody fortune but look forward to the result in a few months.....
Best pinball machine ever in my book. A local 7-11 had this machine and I spent plenty of time and quarters playing this highly addictive pinball machine. I got really good at it too. I would love to have one of these machines if I had the space to do so. Thanks for sharing this. :-)
When I was 13 I played this game every day st the bowling ally. This and punch out. Both came out right after the video game crash so they were a spark for sure
When I was going to the University of Cincinnati back in the mid-80s, I spend a LOT of time and money at an arcade named Jupiter And Beyond and it was where I first encountered Gauntlet and High Speed. There was a live music venue next door named Bogart's which also got a lot of my money. Glorious days of misspent youth almost 40 years ago.
Most Bad Ass Pinball machine on the planet! I fed it regularly back in the day in a darkened arcade, the lights and sound effects are just beautiful and literally pumped your adrenaline with the push of the play button. Great video.
My Grandpa Jim owned one of these. Whenever I went over to his house for the holidays and such, I would spend HOURS upon HOURS playing it. When he lost his house, my dad took the old electronic dart game but did not take this. He regrets it to this day. Nonetheless, it was a VERY fun game. I can still have fun playing it on pinball arcade (Xbox One or Microsoft PC via steam) even though it's not really the same. I still remember when we would start up the pinball machine it would sometimes click REALLY loud lol. It would scare the heck outta me and a lot of times I couldn't be in the room when my dad started it.
If there's a switch that hasn't been hit in awhile, when you first turn it on it makes a really loud error message like that and on the screen it tells you a switch is stuck, that's probably what it was. Even if you get the actual machine Bobby it still won't be the same without your dad and grandpa playing it :) That's just how it goes unfortunately!
So cool! I've been playing high speed pinball on the Nintendo entertainment system since I was a kid. It's so cool seeing the real thing. Thanks for sharing this
+Joe's Classic Video Games High Speed has always been one of my favorites since I first played it when it first came out. I was lucky enough to find a one about 20 years ago and have had much fun playing it over the years. I have a question that I hope you can answer. The machine has started acting up and I'm almost 100% sure that the trouble is due to a faulty flipper diode. My question is... can a diode be checked while in circuit, or do I have to de solder one leg of each to get an accurate reading. Thanks
I own a high speed pinball machine. After visiting Eugene Jarvis and Larry Demar in 1987 to discuss my solution to the Robotron:2084 bug which made the game reset at random, I learned about High speed software feature that Larry implemented ; the first pinball game to modify the game objective when the software knows that some switches are not working, a common occurrence in pinball machines. So, that goal is ignored when it is time to gives the player the benefice of the doubt and assuming that the target have been hit. Eugene showed me the new video game that he was writing for Williams : Narc. The first video game to use the texas instrument TMS34010. Larry challenged me to find the secret text message embedded in the large background drawing chip. A year later, an arcade game owner gave me a contract job. I asked as payment to get two machines: 1-Narc video game from Williams 2-High Speed pinball machine from Williams Very soon after delivery, I had the content of the two EPROMs of High speed saved as files and started the work of reverse engineering using my latest 6809 disassembler which created file that can be given directly to the assembler. An efficient way to identify every memory pointers which invariably appear as invalid microprocessor instructions. Narc was 4 Meg of binary data ... more than 2 EPROMs. I wrote the disassembler for TMS3410 ... and an assembler... and designed a video card that displayed more than one thousand circles per second (at least 10x faster than any PC video card of that time)
@@LyonsArcade My all time favorite video game happen to be from Williams too. Joust was such a departure from every other games. Instead of using guns to kill, you made a bird fly. Suprising that only mario bros then nintendo used similar concept while the big money makers continued to be car racing and war like killing.
This was omnipresent at the local arcade near me while I was growing up. They put a Twister (correct name?) pinball machine next to it with the fan on the back box. What an amazing time……
Great game, I just got one and finished shopping it out. However I find that the area in front of the top flipper and the freeway to the left of Santa Monica to be very dark. I added a spotlight with dimmer on the left to shine across this area. It's turned down so not to be obnoxious but it does help. I remember doing this to a high speed I had on the street when I was an operator in the late 80's early 90's.
Great video and awesome, awesome pinball machine! High Speed is one of my all time favorites. I wish was as nice looking as this though but mine plays great and that's fine with me. You've got a nice looking store there and I'll have to check it out next time I'm in the area.
Some more interesting trivia-this game was such a big hit that many operators actually kept the machines in service for much longer then normal which resulted in some pins getting in such poor condition that the balls literally tore up the playfield, as a result this made finding HS pins in good condition very coveted and commanding quite high prices in later years.
It's a rare move from 7-segement (or 8-, including the decimal point) to the 14-segment LED displays; and for most purposes LCDs took over quite quickly. (And I guess even with Williams I seem to remember that quickly full dot-matrix LED displays took over shortly after _High Speed._ ) But I'd still love to build stuff today with those 14-segment displays, if they were still available at any reasonable price. Anyway, for me, this game is a classic; I spent so much time on it back in the day. I had no idea at the time that this and _Space Shuttle_ were classics and would become great sellers. So it turns out not be just a quirk of my taste, but that there was some great art in that design.
I rescued this pinball from the dumpster at cheeses pitsa we were remodeling and they wanted it gone! I took it home still have it! Its worn a bit but has a lot of good parts just the display is going like you said.
When I was 5 years old in 1988 a friend had one of these in his basement, I think it was pretty unusual for a modern pinball machine to be in the home wasn't it? Not as common as today i think.
I played this back in 1998 in Long Beach, CA during a Grand Prix event at the Convention Centre and for a half-buck investment I made over 10.7 million over three rounds.
Remember this one as a kid! I thought the blonde in the passenger seat was waving tauntingly at the cops in the backglass? Mandela Effect, AKA my crappy memory.
Hi Joe I love your videos and is a big fan. So now you have a subscriber all the way from Denmark in Europe :-) I'm also writing to you ad I have a problem with my High Speed pinball mashine. There is a terrible buzzing noise from the speaker, like it has interference from the light...!? The problem occurred after I had to dismount the top, to be able to fit it in my car for transportation. Is there any way I can send you a video of my pinball problem were you can hear the sound? ...if you have the time to help me, of cause... :-)
yes you can send me a video at www.LyonsArcade.com , the buzzing sound is likely because of a ground wire that wasn't reconnected in the top when you put it back on...
Yes, on the game it's a Lamborghini, but there's a famous story by the designer Steve Ritchie, he designed the pinball after getting chased by the cops in his Porshe.... quote "It was based on a true story. I was actually chased by the cops at 146 mph in my 1979 Porsche 928."
You mentioned about matching; "It doesn't really mean much". It does because you won! The odds on that are against you, take it because matching is a lot like winning the lotto! Especially if your broke and can't play again hence two good reasons for matching.
Well of course Eileen, but my point was that this particular game is set on freeplay.... so if I win a free game on a game that's already free... it doesn't really mean much.
Was the random hide out kicker kicking a common thing? My High-Speed will do that random firing on my H-S as well. And in that section there is no leaf switch to adjust it is those clicky switches in the hideouts.
I just checked the numbers, they made 17,080 High Speeds and made 12,001 Pin-Bots , I think some times though things like this were regional... so you may have had operators in your area that loved Pin-Bot but weren't so high on High Speed, or maybe Pin-Bot made more money for them so they bought more of them and operators in other parts of the country felt the opposite....
He's the designer of the game, not the artwork. He's currently the lead designer for Stern Pinball, probably the best pinball designer of all time, there are tons of interviews with him on youtube go check it out!
@@LyonsArcade Thank you I have learned a lot since then now I know who Steve Richie is lol. This machine has a secret hack if you get it up one of those ramps and go left left right left left right left left right with the flippers it gives you free credit
Joe would u recommend buying this pin? As my 1st pin? Looks like fun and lotta action. I have 5 arcade games. Now wanting to add a pin and found this for sale, in my price range.
On the 3 ball - 5 ball thing. ... To me, pinball is always a 5 ball game. In the golden era, machines were designed with several different, and often overlapping ways to win a game. It took working for 5 balls to achieve the Special, points, or score. Many of the early games were ‘jackpot’ games so you could win multiple replays. .... This contrasts greatly with the 70s when most games had just one or two ways to win, and the concept was re-set with each ball. ... So in many ways the games of 1953-1958 are close to the modern games .... ie: several features/modes of winning that take the whole 5 balls to achieve. .... even on free play, winning free games never gets old. ... either does ‘lucky number’ (aka ‘match feature’). .... just my opinion.
I've got a really bad memory so while I've seen that movie and it's hilarious I had forgot about those lines, i'll try to work them into another one, lol
It does it when the police get after you during the multiball part, or after the ball drains after that I believe. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in a pinball light show, there's no extra lights used to make it do it, they just designed it into the regular lights and it really does look like a searchlight. Pretty amazing.
It does it when the police get after you during the multiball part, or after the ball drains after that I believe. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in a pinball light show, there's no extra lights used to make it do it, they just designed it into the regular lights and it really does look like a searchlight. Pretty amazing.
I can pick one up for $50 I'm trying to get it tomorrow it looks like it needs the rubber bumpers in the glass he says it's complete is that a good deal you know anybody would want it for parts in case I can't get it going
@@LyonsArcade okay I'm going to be cuz I figure Heck if it's totally toast I can make a badass desk I also have a 1973 got life Wildlife that I'm trying to fix up I'll have to give you a call someday soon
Every arcade in my area had one of these, and I absolutely would not play it. The bumpers consistently sent the ball right down the side drains. You could easily spend $10 in 15 minutes on this.