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Arcade Collecting => Pinball => Topic started by: bani on July 23, 2009, 03:32:47 am

Title: Identify this pin...
Post by: bani on July 23, 2009, 03:32:47 am

From memory -- sorry, no pics.  :-\

A Williams table, if I remember.

Not exactly a pinball game per se. It had a "gun" where the drain would be on a normal pin, which you rotated with a controller and could "fire" balls with a trigger on the controller. At the top of the table there was a row of gates. Lights on the playfield would progress down from the gates toward your "gun". You had to aim and fire balls into the gates to keep the advancing lights from reaching your "gun".

Anyone remember the name?  ???

Title: Re: Identify this pin...
Post by: Pinball Wizard on July 23, 2009, 07:08:22 am

The Williams version is Hyperball and the Bally version is Rapid Fire.

Title: Re: Identify this pin...
Post by: bani on July 23, 2009, 11:04:12 pm

thanks for ID'ing  :)

now just need someone to make a VP conversion  ;D

Title: Re: Identify this pin...
Post by: Pinball Wizard on July 24, 2009, 08:51:41 am

Good luck with that!!! I always have problems remembering the names but I had looked it up on ipdb.org 2 days ago.

Title: Re: Identify this pin...
Post by: billpa on July 24, 2009, 12:53:13 pm

It's been recreated in VP

http://vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=952&hl=hyperball

Although if you are looking for a full screen version for a video pin cab, there isn't one. But there is a similar game out on Future Pinball called AstroBlast

http://gopinball.com/indexAstroblast.html

Definitely read the rule sheet before you play it or you won't know what the hell you are doing :D

Title: Re: Identify this pin...
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 23, 2009, 11:34:12 am

Quote from: billpa on July 24, 2009, 12:53:13 pm

Definitely read the rule sheet before you play it or you won't know what the hell you are doing :D

Ain't that the truth......... I absolutely love my Hyperball machine.
Very nice stress reliever indeed.