Pinball Egypt

09/04/2023

Grab your fishing gear and head out to the lake in Williams' Fish Tales -A true pinball classic designed by Mark Ritchie. Fish Tales is a broadly appealing game with easy to understand rules and humorous gameplay and speech. This isn't your typical fishing getaway though. You'll wrangle monster-sized fish, clear water skiers away from the lake and tell tall tales about your catches for bigger points!The general goal is to catch as many fish and tell the most outlandish stories about their size possible. The machine's backglassis topped with a plastic fish that thrashes its tail when the player achieves certain goals, and the players launches balls with an autoplunger shaped like a fishing rod.

DETAILS:

Manufactured by: Williams Electronic Games, Inc.
Date: October 1992
Type: Solid state
Release: 13,640 produced

•MEASUREMENTS

Height:71"
Width:31"
Depth:52"
Weight:118kg

Fish Tales is a pinball machine manufactured by Williams Electronic Games in 1992. Designed by Mark Ritchie, the theme centers around fishing. (obviously) Ch...

09/04/2023

Introduction:

Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either enroute or when it comes to rest.

•Today, pinball is most commonly an arcade game in which the ball is fired into a specially designed cabinet known as a pinball machine, hitting various lights, bumpers, ramps, and other targets depending on its design.

•The game's object is generally to score as many points as possible by hitting these targets and making various shots with flippers before the ball is lost.

•Most pinball machines use one ball per turn (except during special multi-ball phases), and the game ends when the ball(s) from the last turn are lost.

•The biggest pinball machine manufacturers historically include Bally Manufacturing, Gottlieb, Williams Electronics and Stern Pinball.

History:
Pre-modern: Development of outdoor and tabletop ball games
•Late 18th century: Spring launcher invented•1869: Spring launchers become mainstream
•1931: Coin operation introduced•1933: Electrification and active bumpers introduced
•1947: Flippers introduced
•1970s: Solid-state electronics and digital displays introduced
•1980s and 1990s: Pinball in the digital age
•2000s and beyond: Revival

Common Features:
•Ball lock
•Multiball
•Jackpot
•End-of-ball bonus
•Extra ball
•Kickback
•Various timed rounds (modes)
•Stackability
•Wizard Mode
•Ball Saver
•Slam Tilt