1980 Williams FIREPOWER pinball machine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello everyone! Today we have a 1980 Williams Firepower pinball machine in action for your viewing pleasure. Two complete games are played in this video because I couldn't quite get multiball started in the first game. Of course, as soon as I achieved multiball in the second game, I immediately lost every ball.
This machine is one of the more iconic classics of the early solid-state era. Designed by Steve Ritchie, it's the first solid state machine to feature multiball and the first with the lane-change feature.
The very Star Wars-esque artwork, combined with the awesome speech and cool, fast rules make this game spectacular. The spinner shot to the saucer at the top of the playfield to start multiball is the best shot in pinball, as far as I'm concerned.
Rules are basic, of course, but still more involved that your average electromechanical game. Hitting the six stationary targets in the centre of the playfield lights two of the saucers for lock. Hitting the targets a second time lights the third saucer for lock. Locking all three balls in the saucers starts multiball. Spotting the four lanes at the top (which can be changed on-the-fly via the right flipper button) lights the FIRE insert and hitting the three right side stationary targets lights the POWER insert. Completing FIRE also builds the bonus multiplier. Once multiball has been started, restarting it requires completion of the six stationary targets again three times (instead of two) and then the player has to again lock all three balls.
For more info on this game, check out the IPDB listing here:
ipdb.org/machin...
Let's get stoned and play FIREPOWER.
...this table, Gorgar and Black Knight acvount for most of my misspent pocket money and misspent youth... Back in the days when I had hair (",)
I was more a Stern kind of guy back in the day - Seawitch, Catacomb, Ali and Split Second. I had hair back then too, now look at me !
my friend , i do not consider your youth "misspent" if u played gorgar , firepower and black knight! add stellar wars , and your training is complete young paduan, i do agree that was a lot of hair ago! peace brother!
Steve Ritchie makes the best pinball games on earth.
Firepower is a great machine
What an awesome machine my dad used to have this in his basement and he sold it and wow today I want it back in our game room. And they made around 20,000 so they are not hard to find online. In my top 50 for sure😀
17,410 made
What a classic. One of my all time favs!
es uno de mis favoritos incluso entre mi decia que estaba con los amigos / compañeros de la escuela por los personajes que salian en el flippers 😊
That multiball lasted 8 seconds. Bummer!.
Steve Ritchie games are always pretty good.
loved playing this and pretty much every other machine back in the day 👍
One of my favorites. I played this all the time in college. Nice to see it’s as brutally fast and difficult as I remember.
my childhood
I first played this game when I was 8 years old and it was almost brand new and I also achieved multiball the first time I played it.
I was 18 when it came out...stands out,
The ruleset is simple and it’s fairly easy to do well on this M/C. On of the reasons I love it so. ❤️ ❣️
Ouh, played it hours land hours with my girlfriend Anschi. What a good time then. She loved the Multiball and i liked to eatch while she was playing in full concentration. Would love to play one again.
First multi ball? This came when I was 15. Was epic efx back then
I prefer Firepower II as it's easier to get multi-ball. Just lock one ball and hit the release target. I also prefer the Firepower II artwork. It's more rare with only 3,400 made.
I played this as a kid, Great game, Can be really hard!
You should try the AI version I've made of this table.
Great job you did on the AI, I play it a lot! Thank you.
Blackout sister
My dad bought this pinball machine new in 1981. I grew up with it. Firepower and Medieval Madness are my two favorite machines. Williams made the best pinball machines. Too bad they left the pinball biz in 1999...
Everyone is commenting on the pinball itself I wanna talk about this poor guys luck
Mon oncle Pascal, "ingénieur" à l'époque chez Kulman à Saint-André, disait "la poudre de feu" et moi à 12 ans, au collège, je lui répondais "non, c'est la force du feu"...
LOL! Merci d'avoir partagé. Avez-vous d'autres traductions de titres de pinball?
great pin from Williams,fast and great sounds.Williams had the greatest sounds,including there video games.but I love pinball a whole lot more. Thank for posting.
Schade das diese schöne zeit nie wieder kommt :-( aber mit solchen alten flipper kann man sie sich für kurze zeit zurückholen :-)
There was the black hole too back then that was a every day at the local arcade lololll
I play this pinball on Wii (Pinball Hall Fame)
When I had Wii.
Thomas Dickensheets On my example of the Wii game, I actually set the high score. I don't remember the exact number for my high score.
Now I have The Pinball Arcade for the Xbox One.
If you can’t actually own the real thing for whatever reason Pinball Hall of Fame Williams & Gottlieb Collections for the Wii are fantastic simulations. Wiimote is the left flipper, nunchuck is the right flipper and nudging the M/C is done by motion sensing. It feels and works wonderfully. 👍🏼 🥚 🎱
Jogador ruim demais , teve muita sorte
How can I play this game
Que recuerdos me traen estas maquinas
huuuuu.. que recuerdos de niño.... marco mi niñez este fliper... saludos desde uruguay
My favorite pinball game growing up! I remember when it first came out (aging myself) as the “new game” by Williams...
hours wasted in a tent on venice beach in the 80s ..if ya hit the coin slot just right....credits just popped up like magic
A simple yet fun Williams M/C from the early 80’s . One of my favourites. Get Pinball Hall of Fame Williams Collection for the Wii if you can’t own a real pinball M/C. Firepower is one of the great games included on the disc. Pinball Hall of Fame Gottlieb Collection for the Wii is pretty good too. 🥚 👁 ⚾️
It's an all-time classic, but it's also a bitch to play as you saw. I have this game on mobile app Pinball Arcade, and like the guy in the video I have trouble keeping multiball play intact. A lot of fun though
Damn I wish they still had pinball machines around
Loved playing this game as a kid at the corner pharmacy. The flippers were amazing and lane change lights, multiball and cool space music was ahead of it's time.
they have one at a one of the arcades here in town...challenging pinball- very tough to score a lot of points on it, but so much fun to play...
This machine got me through college.
My favorite machine of them all!
Where's the drop targets?
Only prototype Firepowers (or games that have been modified to accommodate them) have drop targets
@@londonpinball Why is that?
@@bhs6252 Well, according to the designer: "The first 10 games we built had 2 3-banks of drops in place of the standups. They were so crappy that they were making the game unreliable, so we went with the standups for production. It was a smart move. If we had good drop targets it would have sold 20,000, but it wasn't working long enough to earn anything with the bad drops....".
This info can be found here: www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=856
I'm not sure what the issue was with the drop targets. Stellar Wars and Time Warp (for example) use the same type of drop targets in a similar spot to Firepower and those games were fine.
Sounds like defender and robotron!
Firepower was released before both of those games. And the sounds and software for Firepower were developed by Eugene Jarvis, who was instrumental in the programming and development of Robotron and Defender, which accounts for the similarities.
@@londonpinball I own a Robotron and I believe it has the same sound board that's used in this pin and later in system 7 games.
I used to love playing this awesome Williams Pinball back in the day when it was brand new, in a arcade at Clacton-on-Sea just outside of what used to be the Butlins Holiday Camp.