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High Speed is a pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics in 1986. It is based on Ritchie's real-life police chase inside a 1979 Porsche 928 . [ 1 ] He was finally caught in Lodi, California on Interstate 5 and accused of speeding at 146 miles per hour (235 km/h).
High Speed II was released for The Pinball Arcade by FarSight Studios in August 2015, but was later removed on June 30, 2018 due to licensing issues. It is included as part of the Williams volume 1 tables for Pinball FX 3 on October 9, 2018; with a remastered version released for Pinball FX on March 31, 2022.
The minimum is 80 MPH; a skilled player can achieve a speed upwards of 250 MPH. In addition to the customary high score list, Checkpoint also let players record their initials if they set the machine's speed record. [7] [8] A similar speed measuring feature already appeared in the pinball machine Vector from Bally in 1981. [9]
The Pinball Arcade is a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios. The game is a simulated collection of 100 real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb , Alvin G. and Company, and Stern Pinball , a company which also owns the rights of machines from Data East and Sega Pinball .
1967 Williams Pinball Game with a Beatles theme, "Beat Time". Stanford engineering graduate Harry Williams entered the coin-operated amusement industry in 1933 and helped popularize several important pinball innovations such as the tilt mechanism, electrically-powered scoring holes, and the ability to win a free play by achieving a certain score.
Rare adapted the game from the pinball machine High Speed, which was designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics in 1986. In 1995, Williams Entertainment published a sequel, The Getaway , for the Game Boy , based on Ritchie's pinball machine The Getaway: High Speed II .
Pin-Bot was available with more realistic graphics as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms along with The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot and Jack-Bot (the successors). None of these three tables are available due to WMS license expiration on June 30, 2018. Pin*Bot is included in the Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection.
Future Pinball is a simulator and editor which indirectly emulates hardware found in physical pinball machines. Tables are designed using 3D models found within the editor, and rendered using a 3D real-time engine. Pinball table layout, graphic design, and audio are provided by users during the construction and development of table design.