I played A 1980 Williams Firepower Pinball Machine for 2 Hours Trying To Get Multiball....

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@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

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@peterschiff4236 3 года назад

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@martywolfman 4 года назад

It always makes me chuckle how many sounds were reused by Williams in this era. You could almost mistake this for defender half the time

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Definitely!

@GestSayin 4 года назад

I hear Many Robotron Samples and yeah some defender.

@sideburn 3 года назад

And joust and sinistar and…. I’ve always wanted a Williams sound board. Always thought it’d be cool to make a Williams handheld sound box with a bunch of buttons on it.

@pinballdan 2 года назад

@@GestSayin Well it was made the same year as Defender so very cool they shared the same sounds...

@BigMacOrange 2 года назад

Just like the NES!

@MichaelAStanhope 4 года назад

Getting multiball on Firepower is the most satisfying thing in the world, hell, keeping a ball in play for more than a minute is usually an achievement! This thing has to be one of the most brutal pins ever designed. Its great fun, and has so much replay value its not even funny, as you have proven!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Man it's a really tough game, LOL. So well laid out, though!

@pl5624 2 года назад

Classic Williams sound effects...never gets old.

@managain1 Год назад

Ah Firepower, the game that rewards clutch, dexterous shot making with brutal outlane drains. The sounds are a bit obnoxious, but this game is so far ahead of its time it’s hard to really knock it. Great video. As always. Thanks for making these.

@rockabillytattooboy 4 года назад

Firepower is one of the All Time Greatest Williams Classics .Along with FLASH, GORGAR and Black Knight.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Absolutely. I need to get a Gorgar in, I've never had one!

@troyhill4270 4 года назад

Agreed! Love em all, Black Knight my favorite, played it a lot in my neighborhood arcade when it was new. Just bought my first machine, a Gorgar, love it, but a lot to learn on electrical repair

@JonScaptura 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade Gorgar was the first talking pinball machine.

@mrromantimothy 3 года назад

Yeah it reminded me of gorgar

@pinballdan 2 года назад

Yep...I will have all 4 setup just like this in a row!!

@scwassassyn Год назад

Had this machine in my grandparents basement growing up. Thanks for trip down memory lane! My all time favorite!

@rodmandealerman3297 3 года назад

I'm quite sure I commented on the prior video, but I'll say it again: This is my Number 1 favorite pin of all time. In my humble opinion, it has the absolute best sound effects I've ever heard. I wish I were employed so I could buy one...

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

It is a great game, very fun!

@glennmckay5119 3 года назад

Thanks. You've just taken me back to 1980 - always one of our favourites

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it Glenn!

@lindarichter1995 7 месяцев назад

I have this in my spare room. I'm glad he agreed with me that it's difficult. But that makes it fun. Strategy: Practice hitting the 3 places that capture the ball first.

@goldenrod8861 4 года назад

22:41 "Oh, I was playing with it to much!" Classic! Great videos!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thanks Mark, we appreciate you watching man!

@markushavers2283 Год назад

Very nice to hear so many well known "Defender" sounds from this machine. No surprise, they share the same soundboards.

@mikesummers4712 3 года назад

Awesome, you fixed/featured 3/ 4 pins that I own, Very Cool...

@rpgtustin 4 года назад

Played it back in high school at a miniature golf place when we should have been in class. Going to Las Vegas soon to go to the Pinball museum to play this one and many others.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

The Pinball Museum rocks, have a good trip!

@vmhanlon 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade Been there and the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda CA, which I think is better - $15 entry fee and you can play the machines all day, except for a handful of special (new?) machines near the door.

@seuqram0145 3 года назад

I used to sit in the game room of our local bar and wait to watch people play this game as a kid. It was $.75 back in 1982. When that machine makes that pop for extra, scares the s*** out of me every time. Lol

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

That's pretty wild they were getting 75 cents out of it back then! That's pretty cool too that everybody let you watch them play, good times!

@seuqram0145 3 года назад

@@LyonsArcade Yup, i think so too. Hell i wasn't gonna put my only dollar in for one play. They were the older guys that came in to play and some times will let me play the last ball so if i stuck around long enough i could get a couple games in. Lol Man, i loved that machine.

@michaelp_42 4 года назад

Those sounds bring back great memories. Awesome Game. Thanks for posting. 👍 Merry Christmas 🎄

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it Michael, Merry Christmas!

@Martin. 4 года назад

Great Machine . Had a lot of fun 1981👍👍👍 all the best, Martin

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Martin, we appreciate it!

@sonnymoorehouse1941 Год назад

This has to be one of my favorite pinball play videos you have done !!!!!! Firepower !!!!!!!

@LyonsArcade Год назад

haha it took forever! Thanks for watching Sonny!

@Burtman04 2 года назад

lol you crack your self up, you crack me up to lol, your like me I would have done the same as you and stayed up all night getting FirePower........ If I lived in your area id be in to visit your store but since I'm not ill keep watching. I'm in Pottstown Pa.I just found your channel a couple weeks ago and enjoy watching, while I was looking up Imperal Rockola 160 Juke Box I have one from the 60's I believe. I haven't played it in a few years but will soon. ok keep those GREAT Videos coming Thanks Again Burt IV

@LyonsArcade 2 года назад

You can fix that Jukebox Burt if it has any issues, I love the Rockola's.... thanks for watching man, see you on the next one!

@saskia6750 4 года назад

ooooooo yes..what a machine :) thank you guys xxx in the 80s this machine was hot property !! xx

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Yeah it was a great design, very fun :)

@saskia6750 4 года назад

@@Charmander009 why thank you !! :)

@SteveJones172pilot Год назад

Me: "I dont have time to watch him play this for 2 hours!" Also me... 2 hours later, searching PinballMap to see where I can play this close to home.. :-)

@b.o.353 4 года назад

I’ve played this one but never got Multiball. Nice job on fixing it. As long as it plays fine, cosmetic stuff just shows it’s age. Patina as it were. ;)

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I almost never got Multiball :)

@RR-xg1cm 4 года назад

Back in 80 when the game came out. I was a teen and got multiball at least once per dollar of play. It was 50 cent for three games and hopefully got at least one match out of that. To own this and Flash is on my bucketlist.

@joanmelnick1704 3 года назад

Saw it in Calgary, Alberta. It was 1 of the top pinball machines in 1980. Wanted to play it so bad.

@abpob6052 4 года назад

My friend and I played Firepower for hours at a convenience store in high school. Simple times long ago. Firepower makes incredible sounds. Loved it then. Love it now.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Yeah it's something special, great game! Very well designed for the time.

@toddmo1 11 месяцев назад

Firepower is my all time favorite pinball machine. Williams had the best sound effects back in those days. I spend many hours playing at the arcade.

@Slammy555 4 года назад

That's an awesome game, it was the most popular pinball machine when I worked at the arcade. I gave up trying to do multi ball because it cost more than you gained for longevity of free plays. I've seen people lose all their balls almost immediately.

@paulnguyen8910 2 года назад

I have shaken machines since November 1990, because of the "Hulk" pilot that said: "Don't get me angry. You won't like me when I get angry".

@MrMairu555 4 года назад

I was convinced as a kid, there were electromagnets under the floor, and watching now as an adult, it's very clear this machine was designed to be [mechanically] extremely one-sided! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love how fast it was though, and when the ball cracks against the glass sometimes. I would remember the engineer would always give a scowl when it happened when this game was new, because it was something that rarely happened before Firepower. Williams always had the best sound effects, in both pinball and video games, even thought so many were recycled. PS. My new favourite RU-vid channel! Love it!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Mr Mairu, we appreciate it! Yeah they didn't like designing them to give out those free plays very easily, that's for sure :) See you on the next video!

@simonbenzekri4552 2 года назад

awesome, I personally have a firepower and trying to restore it. I am by no means a pro, but I played a lot of pinball!!. thx for the video.

@sonnymoorehouse1941 Год назад

Fantastic Video !!!!!! Pinball Gold !!!!!!

@memyopinionsche6610 4 года назад

Remember those classic sounds from robotron joust and defender. Here yeah go.

@roadiethegamecat4124 4 года назад

My family was in the coin-op business from the 60's till the video game collapse in the 80's. Been around pinball my whole life. I remember being around 8 years old and being enthralled with Bally's "Fireball" which I believe was the first multiball machine. Then when I was about 13 or 14 Firepower came out and I was just blown away. It really was the beginning of the "modern" pinball machine.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Very cool Roadie, I hope they didn't lose everything in the collapse... it's really fun finding these old machines and imaging what it must have been like to play them back in the day!

@gotmilkforme 4 года назад

Balls-A-Poppin that Bally’s released in 1956 was the first EM pinball with flippers with multiball (was able to have up to 9 in play), Live Power released by Dudley Clark Co. in 1934 was the first EM pinball with multiple ball capability on the playfield. Balls-A-Poppin also had no chimes and had instead only the knocker which would sound off anytime a ball hit a lit bumper or rolled over a rollover switch would cause the knocker to sound.

@yadabub 4 года назад

As a youngster, my first multi-ball machine was very confusing. The game kept stealing my balls and wouldn't give them back. It seemed like the game was lasting forever as it gave me 'too many' balls. Then when it returned my balls, my flippers didn't work any more. On my second quarter, I didn't manage to lock any balls, so it felt like the game cheated me out of those 'extra balls.' I was left confused and disappointed by the obviously broken pinball machine. =D

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I still get kids in our shop who have no idea what's going on either, lol. If they've never played before, when the ball disappears, they don't know what to do. They just look... and hit the flippers some more... and look.....

@pinball541 4 года назад

Merry Christmas Ron! Congratulations in advance on 10K! Hello from Phoenix Arizona!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thank you Phoenix Arizona! Have a good Christmas and we'll see you over 10k :)

@pinball541 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade- Deal!

@pinballdan 2 года назад

I love this hard game really make you bust your balls to get the multi-ball !!!! So hard to do when you want it! It will never leave my line up...

@LyonsArcade 2 года назад

It's a masterpiece!

@pinballdan 2 года назад

@@LyonsArcade Totally...Once my shop is more cleared out it will be in my Williams row!!

@WILDGEESE399 4 года назад

I remember the good old days in the pinni parlour kiss playin on the jukebox playboy, stellar wars firepower , i think it was one of the first pinnies with multi i used to take my kids to the fishn chips shop, our favourite game was adams family, kids are all grown up and gone now oh well still got my old sit downs and a few stand ups the wifes favourite game is galaga she still plays it lol, happy new year ron 😂👍

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Galaga is about as good as it gets :) Happy New Year, we'll see you next year with lots of new videos :)

@mikie144 4 года назад

Persistence like watching 2hours of this vid to see the multiball lol , and love the ending added!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Mikie, glad you enjoyed it :)

@tinkering_geek 5 месяцев назад

Thats amazing for 1980, Those SFX sound like mid 1990's

@danijelcar5184 4 года назад

Nice game on Firepower and Merry Christmas!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Merry Christmas Danijel!

@mrromantimothy 3 года назад

Those machines were extremely hard to beat but it's That "firepower" it just makes you want to spend all your quarters and try and beat it.

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

It's so fun, I love it... when you play it and the game ends you want another game!

@rdvrdv8920 4 года назад

I get pissed because my kid is constantly watching RU-vid channels playing FortNite, Minecraft, etc. and here I find myself entertained by a RU-vidr playing pinball obviously by sense of smell.

@mikecronis 4 года назад

..sure plays a mean pin..ball.

@stuartmcpherran5115 4 года назад

Agreed. Fuck FortNite & Minecraft RU-vidrs. Pinball RU-vidrs FTW!!!

@derekdykeman9160 2 года назад

I used to play this a lot in 1980 at the local bowling alley. It was pinball,punk rock,cigs and chicks!

@LyonsArcade 2 года назад

Sounds like a great time, haha Thanks for watching Derek!

@WildHareLLC 4 года назад

My firepower says wait for game to reset too. As far as I know Gor-Gar was 1st game with speech, Firepower 1st Solidstate game with Multiball, A Handful of EM have multiball. I have mine setup to give an Extra Ball at 100,000 - 200,000 - 400,000 - 800,000. it is set to 3 ballplay.

@WildHareLLC 4 года назад

Machine Gun scores.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I want to get one of those EM Multiball games and film it, that's got to be a great feat of engineering!

@troyhill4270 4 года назад

Yes, from what I've read Gorgar 1st machine with speech, released December '79, predating Firepower

@SteveJones172pilot Год назад

@@troyhill4270 Yep.. I have a Gorgar, and Black Knight... now I know I need Firepower too!!

@muckerwood Год назад

Multi-ball game - 2:05:17 Multi-ball sequence - 2:06:59 You are welcome 😎 By the way, you may have also set the all-time record for all 3 balls draining within a 5 second window... but you got 'em, and that's what counts.

@miqueasvalentinhernandez3998 8 месяцев назад

A.k.a ‘fire 1 2 3’

@T-RavisComics 4 года назад

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one this pinball aggrieved to no end 😂. I love this pinball but it makes me soooo mad sometimes

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

It's perfectly balanced, just hard enough to annoy you but fun enough that it doesn't make you want to stop playing!

@memyopinionsche6610 4 года назад

And yeah those classic arcade game sounds are there.

@theodoreolson8187 2 месяца назад

I can give you a helpful suggestion. Try cradleing the ball on either flipper to get control over it and then you can then better control your shots. I used to do this when I played pinball a lot in my younger years. You will be surprised how effective this is.

@KarmaElectronics. 4 года назад

played this game allot as a kid. thanks for sharing

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Karma, we appreciate it!

@Ajaxaxxess 4 года назад

Well done on the multi! I have a Bally Embryon i revived and man i have to play about the same amount of time to get the multi.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I want to get an Embryon in, those things look so cool!

@Ajaxaxxess 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade It is a cool widebody for sure. Backstory of the game and crazy scientist always makes me laugh. I have video on my YT channel showing the playfield issues. Someone before me tried to do some cleaning and it didnt go well. I have been thinking of selling it to make room for current games i have in the corner. Let me know if interested.

@toddament8035 3 года назад

I had an Evel Knievel years ago and it played best after midnight. :-)

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

I think you're right :)

@craigmanning2439 4 года назад

Firepower is a great game. However the flippers are under powered. The left lane with the spinner that locks the ball in the upper right is almost impossible. I have shopped two of these in the last few years and I always upgrade the flipper coils. Makes the game so much more fun.

@scottfindlay2625 4 года назад

One of my Favorite pinball machines, would love to have one but there all out of my budget, cheapest one i've found was 6k.. Code 3 and F-14 tomcat were also my other go to machines..

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

You may have more in your budget than you think :) I guess it depends on where you live, but we sold this particular game for $1800, for instance.

@DrTotz 3 года назад

Anyone trying to sell you this table for 6k is a scam artist. I've seen these working unshopped for like $1200. Keep looking around and you'll find one, but first you have to get the idea out of your head that you can't afford one. I don't make a lot of money and once I realized that I could actually buy one, the flood gates opened. Deals came to me and in no time I have a room full of these things. Very neat how the universe works sir.

@gregoryclemen1870 3 года назад

that was one of my favorite "flipper games"!!!!!.

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

It's pretty awesome!

@gregoryclemen1870 3 года назад

I will say one thing, you really stuck with it, what a rush to play multi- ball pinball machines!!!!. I could tell that you were "WEARING DOWN" towards the end of the video, and then it hit you, the "COUNTDOWN" started. I thought that you did a great job "juggling" three balls at the same time!!!!. I would have to say "williams was way ahead of bally at that time. the programming of "FIREPOWER" was well written!!!!.

@EsotericArctos 4 года назад

I've been watching a lot of your videos lately, having only recently found your channel. I can't help but think the pops on the EM machines are somewhat more exciting. They seem to have more strength in there punch than the solid state machines.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

It might be an AC/DC thing....

@EsotericArctos 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade AC tends to make things buzz a bit more, but the coils can be stronger as AC allows the coils to run cooler than DC coils so that makes sense.

@livingdeadbtu 3 года назад

WOW - Haven't seen one of these in forever! I always swore a lot of these later machines had some electromagnets right in front of the flippers that randomly activated. Sometimes the ball would do the weirdest moves in that area! What I remember the most about firepower is it seemed to specialize in stealing your ball. High speed runs of the ball right down the middle between the flippers. Used to P*** me off to no end! Personally, I like Terminator a heck of a lot better!!! Awesome game though...

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

Thank you for watching livingdeadbtu!

@allrock1238 4 года назад

the one thing I know about this table is its hyper playfield angle sensitive as far a playabilty goes, if its wrong by half a degree its feel will completely change..its a wicked fast game by nature had can have a very high frustration factor ..

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Ain't that the truth!

@robj7481 4 года назад

I loved Firepower, but I hated working on the system 8. That long header connector between the CPU and the I/O PCBs was a PAIN! The WPC system was so much easier! Williams used the 1408 DAC for sounds and (later) they used a chip called a CVSDM (continually variable slope delta modulator) for speech. It’s a 1 databit chip designed for telephony communication so the sample rate was poor (about 3K) because that was the sample rate of a telephone. They stuck with that all the way up to Pinball 2000. Hey, remember the Bally “Squawk and talk” speech board? And Centaur also used a very cool echo board that Bally called “say it again” The first WMS pinball to use a synthesizer chip for music (YM2151) was the great Pin*Bot, which imo, was the best WMS pinball ever made.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Thanks for the info Rick, we just filmed a video working on a Phoenix with the large header you're talking about. I don't like how you have to take all that crap out everytime you have to work on it, there's like 15 connectors and the two boards stuck together....

@robj7481 4 года назад

Joe's Classic Video Games, I had to look up Phoenix. Never heard of that one. Have you ever done videos on Game Plan pinballs? In my career doing repair, I only saw one Game Plan pin and that was Agent 777. How about Zaccaria pinballs? They had a novelty game called Time Machine and another one called Farfella.

@pinballKing012 4 года назад

Grate vidio,,,,Best pinball ever made, sounds and maulty ball make it Steve Ritchies best....

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

It's definitely why a lot of people consider him the man!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

He wouldn't like you talking about him like he's done or something :)

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I really liked Flash too, pretty plain by today's standards but plays great.

@scottbrady7499 4 года назад

1:56 "twelve targets, ..dammit." [absolute fastest three balls and OUT.]

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

1:55:51 Yeah that was intense, LOL I thought I had it figured out, hey we got there eventually though :)

@scottbrady7499 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade love your posts on these games from back in the day. ever seen a "rally X" machine? defender, asteroids, dig dug, caterpillar & ms. pac man is all I ever see by coin operated game restoration videos. rally X was my total favorite. the crowd around the defender machine was always too big. joust is defender with eggs instead of astronauts.

@ryanmacewen511 Год назад

Yeah, I love RU-vid, and I never watch TV anymore. Ironically all of my PC's use TV's for monitors in 4K. I find the apps for TV's, and phones, horrible for RU-vid. Makes on tough on the smaller RU-vidrs, I believe. Although, I have no idea what percentage on watchers are on what platforms. Awesome job!

@TreadwellJay 4 года назад

With all those Joust sounds, you'd know it's a Williams machine without even looking at it!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I heard somewhere that back then it cost considerable money to develop a new sound, like to actually create that sound digitally it had a significant expense, so once they got a good sound they reused it instead of paying to make another one.

@TreadwellJay 4 года назад

Sounds that awesome should be used as much as possible!

@yadabub 4 года назад

At the start of the video I was thinking "Bubbles."

@FearlessFreep62 4 года назад

My friends and I played the hell out of one of these at a bowling alley in western Kansas. We got pretty good at it. The folks that owned it had two bowling alleys and they ended up with a Firepower-II at one of them. We liked it even better. I loved how fast they were, the Williams games always seemed faster the other manufacturers. Have you ever had a Firepower-II roll through your shop?

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

The Williams games were definitely faster, probably because of Steve Ritchie :) We've never had a Firepower-II, although i'm sure we'll run across one eventually! Thank you for watching, we appreciate it!

@richarnold5323 Год назад

I always felt this game called to me --- you could not resist repeating everything it said. FIREPOWER!!!! I sucked at pinball, and sucked at this game, but I played it possibly more than any other pinball game ever. You simply could not ignore this machine! ( Yeah XENON tried to lure people with "Try a tube shot!" - but everyone knew that fembot was a trap)

@micon9308 Год назад

Wow. Lots of those sound effect are in robotron arcade as well

@sseltrek1a2b 3 года назад

It’s a challenging one…noticed that, like “Flash”, one great ball can save the game…

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

Yeah I love Flash too, really well designed games for their age. "The King Of Flow"

@vicferrarisgarage 3 месяца назад

Awesome

@coxyofnewp 3 года назад

I used to play a pinball that had vertical handles with triggers that rapid fired many,many pinball's up towards targets etc on the table. Can anyone remember the name.. it was late 80's early 90's.. many thanks.. Also loving the vids - I been binge watching since found your ch other day!!

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

Thank you for watching Coxy! There were two games, Williams made one called Hyperball, and then Bally made this one called Rapid Fire: - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BaOV-jVqFvM.html

@coxyofnewp 3 года назад

@@LyonsArcade Yeah yeah it was hyperball I was thinking of .. Many thanks !! And pacman took many hours of my youth.. ;) I'm love bingeing out on your amazing vids. And the fact that you tell the history and stories behind many of them too - Is such a bonus.. Keep up the amazing work !

@craigcampbell8560 2 года назад

It took skill to achieve multi-ball on the early SS machines. Firepower and Flight 2000 were two of the most difficult games to get multi-ball. It's a far cry from modern pins where it seems like you don't really have to do much of anything at all to get multi-ball or a jackpot.

@warwickhand9722 Год назад

Multiball was a challenge back then , now there is no satisfaction at all with the newer machines

@memyopinionsche6610 4 года назад

And true physics always plays a part in a pinball machine. Chaos theory is alive and well. Take that nerds!!

@paulstubbs7678 2 года назад

I remember playing this game, way too much. It just missed one voice announcement "Wallet destroyed" Nice to see it with the neon display tubes, non of this LED junk. LED's on the playfield ok, not in the displays. Maybe someone can come up with an amber seven segment display that mimics the gas discharge goodness, however I havent seen one yet.

@OldSkoolF 3 года назад

I subbed on a PC... You live right next to my Dad... He's in Gaston.

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

I've made it down to Gaston a few times, stop by and see us sometime!

@mrromantimothy 3 года назад

I remember those machines in pristine condition those targets would send it right down the middle on you.. my favorite is bow and arrow I can turn that machine over, I think you got it sloped backwards too much you should be able to hit that spinner with some extra energy

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

o.k. I'll go make it slower

@user-ds3zn7ej8j 2 года назад

my favorite pinball of all time, if you ever get another one in, let me know and I will come over and show you a few tricks.

@LyonsArcade 2 года назад

Alright Jeff, we'll do that, thank you for watching!

@ralfjung4156 4 года назад

I wish i had the place for a real pinball machine. So i use Pinball Arcade. The graphics are nearly perfect, the sound is original and the ball physic is gorgeous. The best choice if you like pinball. :-)

@teamhex 3 года назад

Came for 15 minutes to get an idea of the game...stayed the entire 2 hours. Best part is the "Major Schlongage" part 1:39:40

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

haha thanks for watching man, glad you enjoyed it!

@teamhex 3 года назад

@@LyonsArcade Thanks for the help with my 72" Gottlieb Grand Slam. Just playing it over and over seems to have "fixed" the score reels. They reset most of the time now and it goes to ball 1 instead of ball "0"

@sseltrek1a2b 3 года назад

Watching this was almost as much fun as playing…. (:

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

Thanks Steve we appreciate the kind words!

@rodmandealerman3297 4 года назад

Too hard?? Oh HELL no. Just right! The mall arcade I worked at back in 1986 had this, along with Firepower 2. Fantastic games. I'm still a pinball NUT. Some classic pins in my top 10 (in no particular order): F14 Tomcat High Speed Xenon FunHouse Cyclone Terminator 2: Judgement Day Aaaaaah, those were the days....

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Yup! All of those you named are very fun :)

@Drhumbolt Год назад

My dad has a firepower, we used to play it all the time. It's been setting in his garage for a number of years now through a couple moves. This has me wanting to revive it. I don't remember if it work. Is it safe to turn it on after setting for so long. Or should it be serviced first? Just got divorced and I think it will go great revived in my living room lol, wonder if chick's will dig my pinball machine lmao

@raulerrman.5401 3 года назад

The machine has the Zaccaria "space shuttle" 1980 sound.

@theodoreolson8187 2 месяца назад

Try cradeling the ball on either flipper. You can then get better control over it and then have better control over your shots.

@Hounddoggy33 4 года назад

My favorite pin

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

It's pretty impressive!

@gabrielandy9272 4 года назад

pinball is not for my time but i like to research the history, could someone tell me what pinball machine was trully the first to feature multiball? the wikipedias and pinball forums only mention some bugs on the older machines that had multiball, but i could not really find the one with first true multiball listed anywhere :(

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

They had multiball as far back as 1934 on "Live Power". ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1463

@mac9955 2 года назад

Great game. How much does this one go for?

@martywolfman 4 года назад

before I start watching you play ( i don;t know that i'll make it through the whole 2 hours, haha) - are there any repair videos coming up on this one?

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

We needed to fix it fast so we didn't film any of the repairs, have to wait till the next one!

@martywolfman 4 года назад

Fair enough, I was just curious :) i appreciate how long it takes to record and edit the videos :)

@gregoryclemen1870 3 года назад

I have the method of getting the "BALL" in the top saucer use the palm of your hand and "HIT" the ball plunger!!!!!! goes in just about every time

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

That's pretty cool, I've never tried it :) Bally put points on their plungers so nobody would do that, lol

@toddament8035 3 года назад

Designed for 5-ball play with 3-ball option for quick turnover. Lol

@fortunefay 3 года назад

Playing with it too much...you mean too much finesse ? Love those sounds, I like machines with action at the top. This one has sinister alleys though. Gotta be magnets in them. What would be a fair price for a used Firepower or Gorgar?

@LyonsArcade 3 года назад

Firepower we would sell for $2200 or so same with Gorgar

@muckerwood Год назад

@@LyonsArcade What about if you found a BRAND NEW Firepower still in it's packaging? 😊 $???

@wilholloway7876 4 года назад

Actually, Gorgar was the first pinball machine with a seven word vocabulary.

@tectalabyss 2 года назад

They needed to call that game. " The black hole. " For all the money it sucked in,back in the day. Great game though.

@memyopinionsche6610 4 года назад

But I was kinda confused with fireball I think. The first spinning disc in the middle of the playfield like whirlwind. I can't remember.

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

We have a Whirlwind coming up in the near future, we'll see what that spinning disc is all about :)

@rubicon-oh9km 2 года назад

I've got a Xenon that needs a little love Joe. Do you ever come out to the Lake Tahoe area for anything?

@Jammin6796 4 года назад

need to fix the warp in the middle of the board.. keeps sending you straight down the pipe

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

That was just my lack of skill :)

@jamieturnage4574 4 года назад

sounds like the defender game

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Yup, they used a lot of the same sounds!

@jamieturnage4574 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade defender i loved it all the sounds and the game play was awsom

@pinballdan 4 года назад

Hook up a big good powered subwoofer to it!

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

I'll bet it rumbles :)

@pinballdan 4 года назад

@@LyonsArcade It's so awesome sounding..makes the game so much more fun and yes it's a bitch to get multi ball!!!!!

@toddament8035 3 года назад

I could play Alien Poker for hours trying to get the million jackpot.

@gregoryclemen1870 3 года назад

with" bally", what you would do is make a "FIST" and hit the plunger with your "PINKY" finger, that way the POINT on the plunger will not "DRAW BLOAD"!!!!. , with "williams- have at it. one of the BIG problems with the electronic flipper units was dirty contacts( low voltage/ low current) unlike the electro- mechanical units, the arcing/sparking of contacts would keep the contacts "CLEAN". " I really did not know why ,but on "FIRE POWER" the right flipper contacts that "rotated" the "FIRE" lights would always get dirty(lights would not rotate)

@troyhill4270 4 года назад

Haha! Up to 58 minute mark on your quest, funny! Besides the obvious Death Star ripoff (but who cares, fun game) they also borrowed heavily on classic early Marvel comics illustrator Jack Kirby's unique style I've always thought

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Definitely.... all the good stuff is derivative though :)

@memyopinionsche6610 4 года назад

Way before Deadpool.

@wilholloway7876 4 года назад

Reminds me of The Borg......

@LyonsArcade 4 года назад

Yes, it does!