Pin*Bot

Pin*Bot

Infobox Pinball |
| title = Pin*Bot
manufacturer = Williams
system = Williams System 11A
designer= Designers: Barry Oursler, Python Anghelo
Programmer: Bill Pfutzenreuter
Artwork: Python Anghelo
Mechanics: Joe Joos, Jr.
Music / Sound: Chris Granner, Bill Parod
release = October, 1988
production = 12,001

"Pin*Bot" is a pinball game released by Williams in October 1988, designed by Barry Oursler and Python Anghelo. It is known for its futuristic space music (composed by Chris Granner).

Rules

In this pinball game, you try to make it around the solar system on your journey to the Sun. The first planet is always Pluto. In order to move from planet to planet, you have to knock down three drop targets in quick succession, or hit a specially marked target when it is lit. Each planet reached gives you a 20,000 point bonus at the end of the ball.

At the center of the playfield is a 5 by 5 grid. Lighting up the grid causes a visor to lift, revealing the robot's eye sockets. Locking balls in each socket causes the robot to say, "Now I see you," after which a bonus multi-ball begins. Re-locking a ball makes Pin*Bot announce, "Shoot for Solar Value," allowing you to shoot the free ball up the left ramp to collect a jackpot. The jackpot value increases 50,000 points every time a ball has traveled up the ramp. The jackpot total carries over from game to game until it is collected.

There was a home version released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. "Pin*Bot" is also playable on "Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection".

equels

"Pin*Bot" was followed by two sequels: "" (released in 1991) and "Jack*Bot" (released in 1995).

Trivia

*"Pin*Bot" appears in the 1988 pinball game, "Taxi" (created by Anghelo and Mark Ritchie).
*This was the pinball machine that Tom Hanks had in the movie Big
*An electronic version is available on the "" game.

External links

* [http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1796 IPDB listing for "Pin*Bot"]


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