Williams' High Speed Pinball Machine Is Finally Done! 

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Got to watch Steve Richie play on my friends High-Speed earlier this year and the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown. My friend had the biggest smile when Steve said it was the best machine he had played on.

I remember dumping countless quarters in one of these as a kid in the 90s. Brought back a lot of memories

This series of videos was more enjoyable than the 10 part "Last Dance" documentary, without question. The expression on the woman's face on the back glass was hilarious. I see why this was the best selling pinball machine ever or at least until the recording of this video. So far, I don't remember viewing a video where you had so much fun playing either a pinball or video game. Great work!!!!!!

Thanks for the tip about adding fuse for transformer to rectifier circuit. You even gave the fuse value to use, 8Asb. Nice to have the added safety. You are the MAN!

The very first, and one of the best Williams System 11 games! That backglass is beautiful! Still a great game, even today. They made a TON of these things, I think it was one of the best, if not the best selling System 11 game.

I so remember playing this game. Absolutely loved it, but I was not very skilled at going through all the sequences. What drove me to this game as a kid? The traffic lights. If I owned this machine today, I'd find a way of adding my real traffic lights on either side of the cabinet and wiring it into the main system. This is a game where you must say "shut up and take my money!"

Very cool. I used to feed quarters into this machine as a kid in about '81 at the bowling alley while my parents were league bowling.

High-Speed had a bunch of firsts it was the first pinball machine to have a diverter on a ramp. :)

The playfield is very similar to another Williams table called The Getaway... which I play a lot in Pinball FX3. Good stuff 👍

One of my top 3 favorite pinball games.

Feel your frustration on that ramp shot from 30 years ago!!! Love this game. Such a flowing table.

That’s a work of art. Sure miss playing.

The lights sweeping across the playfield ( in a search light mode) happens when you get the score to earn you a free game. Mine is set to 1.4 million. Very cool search light action. It's a real shooters game and plays very fast. trapping the ball for ball control is a must for this game.

My daddy always told me "find something you love doing, and you'll never work a day in your life" Sir, you must be having a blast! :-) Thumbs Up! -Larry

I play this machine on pin ball fx3 all the time! I’m slowly purchasing the whole Williams collection on there. Dying to find one to play in person

If I'm not mistaken the car on the back glass is a Lamborghini Countach, despite the lack of logos. And green is also an unlucky color for motorcycles.

Also I noticed that when you do the left loop the ball would hit something just before the right loop it would hit it about where the Right Jet Bumper is. It should transition smoothly and not hit anything mine I can do loops all day no problem.

Played High Speed II for a few hours last night at a local place. Not as good as the original, but that might be nostalgia talking. I’d love to own the original!

The video where the Bridge Rectifiers shorted was on your most recent Pin-Bot machine. I had the bridge Rectifiers fused in my High Speed, & Pin-Bot machines. Williams pinball machines were always my favorite to play. Any Fire Pinballs coming in the future? Hello from Phoenix Arizona!

I think I still have the "medallion" (a disc about the size of a DVD with art on one side) that came with a new machine and I won at the local pool hall's tournament 30 years or so ago

One of the most unforgiving game ever made. I just bought one last week. It is an absolute blast to play!

This is on of my childhood memories me and my dad use too play I have two machine I’m wanting too trade for this machine Williams flash and Williams laser ball

I love your repair videos, but this table is amazing and I've never seen it before. Fantastic sound effects/music, outstanding lights (especially love the tach in the center), and the layout is great too. Surprisingly fair too, no death lanes on the sides either. Really thank you for showing these tables in all their glory, pinball has always been a love of mine. That searchlight effect is fucking awesome! I can tell you really love these machines too and understand what makes them great with the way you repair them, not necessarily restoring them but making sure the switches are responsive, the flippers smooth and hit hard, pop bumpers always responding etc. Things like that are what make a machine fun to play because nothing is more frustrating than having your awesome skill shot ruined because of an unresponsive sensor or weak coil/spring. Can't even count the number of tables in shitty bars I played with messed up flippers or completely dead pop bumpers that totally ruined the experience. When you're watching the ball fly around who gives a fuck about paint "alligatoring" on the logo!

Man I’ve got to get myself one of these!

Absolutely took me back to Home Town Pizza, high school job! Flop and I were high score always!! Thanks for pulling out the memories

I love that game luckily i have a place that has one that works nice thanks for the video.

Apparently this was the first solid--state game to have auto-percentaging for replays. But Williams already had that feature in a pinball as far back as 1949! Who was the guy who always hid a cow in his game designs for Williams?

One of the best pinball machines ever...

That was my favorite pinball. Maybe I missed it in your video, but I thought when you ran the red light it gave you multi-ball? Or was that when you had the cops in pursuit and shot it up the ramp to “get away” it started multi-ball which was 3 balls at once right?

Thank you joe for this last installment :) another great video !

Ok, so around the 30 minute mark I had 2 visions: 1 Being the Statue of Liberty in Ghost busters and the 2nd is you actually dancing in the showroom. LOL

this is a cool series to see, we have a high speed machine with more wear than that but good to have reference if we ever need to clean and replace parts

The slo-mo edit at the end of the video was awesome! Nice finish to another great series.

I swear if you ever record at 4k, I'll have a heart attack. lol Some of those machines you repair are worth seeing the detail's on in 4k.

Oh man... @30:20 .... Now I want to watch GhostBusters....

Mate, ya should've shaken the machine when your bonus is under 3K! I have done this many times as I went to anger mode since November 1990.

Nice. You miss the helicopter plastic on top of the shooter lane. I didn't know about the euro siren setting. I am French and all the machines I played had the US siren. I would be glad if you could change the setting and record what it sounds like. Great video as usual.

that song will always remind me of ghostbusters 2

Another option for the batteries is to put a socket in and a remote battery pack or even a rechargeable battery pack and remove the diode. Even being a little higher than 5v is ok because a new set of AA batteries will run like 1.85V each so you are looking at a total of about 5.5v when they are new and dead they run like 1.1v or about 3.3 total. It is also possible to put a battery in the base and then setup a separate charge circuit for it and just run the power up to the head. Tons of different ways to do that, LOL. Personally I hate the coin cell batteries. Seems like they are always dead.

Wow! I just watched the entire video!! And I gotta know...HOW MUCH would it cost to take a machine and restore it like the one you did? Even if a few more issues were wrong, like a couple more multi connectors and the NV RAM, the battery(too keep the highscore), adding the 2 fuses to the rectifiers, plus the bumper coil(23-800) and to replace 44 bulbs with the 47 bulbs? Plus the new siren bulb motor? What would that all cost? I have a williams high speed I need to restored and if that's all that's wrong with it...what am I looking at spending? It lights up but doesn't play . .

Joe-Always upgrade to NVRAM and clip battery holder off...1 more mpu SAVED!!!!!!!!!! For life...

Looking to buy one of these

Great video !

i noticed it was 3 aa 4.5v total and you replace it with a cr 3032.. 3v.. does it not care its 1.5 v short?

If you're stealing a coil Don't wanna know about your crime spree... If you gotta make a quick getaway I will tell the cops I've seen nothing.