FIREPOWER PINBALL MACHINE - BY WILLIAMS 1980 

Back then not all Williams games had the same color inserts or pop bumper cap colors. Usually Williams would change iitems depending if it was a early model vs a later model or export model. Sometimes it's just random. I have owned three Williams Jungle Lords and all of them had a different color insert for one or two features. I have seen Firepower with purple and blue but the purple seems to be more commom for what I have seen over the years.

If coins are not used, then credits can be added manually by trigging the credit switch inside the coin door or the free play setting can be turned on through the programming settings.

Just because 90's games had more stuff on it, or a licensed theme does not make it a better game or a lasting game. Even though I own 90's games and grew up playing EMs to today's machine's I still enjoy playing the late 70's and 80's games the most. It's also just a personal preference. I enjoy these early games because it's the last of true classic pinball experience. Firepower to me is the best game ever made but on the flip side I also think Williams Indiana Jones is the best game but would rank them the same. Firepower gets played the most when people come down to play my collection because it's an attractive inviting machine. I like Firepower because it does not have a license theme. I am not a fan of license theme's because sometimes it makes a not so good of a game popular. The artwork and theme on this game is excellent and I think it has the best artwork on a backglass ever made. The sounds are totally the best. It's fast and fun and has some great features like, multi-ball and lane change which was a first on a S.S. game. When this game came out it was amazing, but today for me it totally holds up with the newer games and is just as fun if not more. If Firepower is still ranked high, then it does prove how good of a game it is and the lasting power it has.

​ @Doug's Home Arcade Collection well. some em games score a 7 or 8 and some new stern games score 6.5 to 7, i see it like. for an em game of that time its a 8.. and compared to other 2010+ games this stern is a 6,5. for me. just like for many... flow is important. you see older games where designed for playing faster, keep the money flowing in. some system 11 games you have a hard time lasting more than 10 15 min. while attack from mars you can play longer.. easy multi ball. nice risk/points balance and those new pinball machines .. people stream 1+ hour with 1 game, i must say for example.. my road kings i do like it.. i play like max 25min on it. but its fun to get multi ball, time lock and try to get as many points.. of course ball save and multiplier and hold bonus can keep you busy. not very deep but nice.. so much nicer than all those em games.. top100 em would beat road kings in score..better? hell no and what you say newer is not better. true, quite allot gottlieb games failed because of lack of flow, or unbalanced ruleset, or easy ball draining.. etc

The coin card that's on my apron was something I printed myself around 15 years ago from the web. There are a few sites out there that offer the factory original and custom instruction/coin cards to print yourself or to purchase. A shaker motor is not available for any of these early system games. Even if there was a shaker motor available it would not be a good idea since the shaking would destroy the artwork on the back glass since the displays and wires pretty much, rub against the paint on the backglass. On later games that came with factory shaker motors they did not have this problem. Adding a shaker motor is not necessarily the best mod to add to any pins. I have seen many Pinballs Machine cabinets break apart or wood split from all of the vibration. This gets worse over time when the glue and wood start to age. As far as upgrades there is stuff like Led bulbs, Led displays, or newly design circuit boards. As far as the Led bulbs some people love them, and some people hate them. I am not a fan since it changes the look and feel of the game, they strobe too much, and they break too easily are just a few cons. I only use them to enhance a feature on a game if it looks good, but not to LED the entire game. Led displays is only needed if you need to replace a bad display. Only problem is you cannot mix the gas display with the LED ones on these Williams games. You have to replace all of the displays with a complete LED display kit. Today gas displays are getting very hard to come by and can force a Pinball Owner to switch to LED if they choose not to hunt down a NOS or a used one. I like the idea of going LED, but I just don't like the funky look it gives to the backglass and it's just not sharp and bright as the originals. I do not mind the LED displays as much on the later games when they were mounted on the speaker panel instead. Updating the circuit boards again is only necessary if you have a board that went out and the choice is made to replace the board instead of getting the original fixed. For me on these 70's and 80's games I try to keep them as factory original as possible, so they keep that overall look and feel of that era.

@@727PENGO Thanks for the info.

Lange change moves the light for each lane. If a ball is about to drop in a lane that's already lit you can move that light to another lane and swap it with a lane that is not lit.

The machine to the left is Blackout which was the next game Williams released after Firepower. I also have a video of my Blackout machine on my channel as well.

@@727PENGO Thanx a lot,I'll watch!!!🇮🇹Grazie mille/1000.South,5:48 p.m.