I'm hoping somebody can help me identify two tables I used to play a lot, but now I can't remember their names.
In the summer of '75 I used to play a table that had a wheel in the middle, sort of like Fireball, but the wheel didn't spin itself the way Fireball does. It had two posts on opposite edges of the wheel and you would try to hit the posts to spin the wheel which would rack up points. If you completed some other targets the value of each spin of the wheel would go up. Unfortunately having those two movable posts in the middle of the table would cause some unpredictable behavior when the ball hit them, including dropping the ball straight down the drain. Does anybody remember this table?
In the fall of '76 I used to play a table that didn't look particularly state of the art. It had three round bumpers up near the top that were protected from the flippers by a target wall in the shape of an upside-down V. The bumpers didn't score very high, but if you completed a set of targets then the value would go up drastically. The bumpers were hard to get to from the flippers because of the wall in front of them, but if you angled a shot off the side of the table you could drop the ball into them and it would bounce around in there for quite a while. If the bumpers were in their high score mode then one or two of these shots would almost guarantee a free game score. In '76 this machine seemed like a fairly old one, but not as old as early '60s. I know that's not much of a description, but I'm hoping someone will know this machine.
I know I'd recognize these tables if I saw them, but I just can't remember their names. I've scoured the table images online and I can't find anything that looks like them. Even if I couldn't get emulations for these tables, it would be nice to know their names, so I would be grateful for any help here.
In the summer of '75 I used to play a table that had a wheel in the middle, sort of like Fireball, but the wheel didn't spin itself the way Fireball does. It had two posts on opposite edges of the wheel and you would try to hit the posts to spin the wheel which would rack up points. If you completed some other targets the value of each spin of the wheel would go up. Unfortunately having those two movable posts in the middle of the table would cause some unpredictable behavior when the ball hit them, including dropping the ball straight down the drain. Does anybody remember this table?
In the fall of '76 I used to play a table that didn't look particularly state of the art. It had three round bumpers up near the top that were protected from the flippers by a target wall in the shape of an upside-down V. The bumpers didn't score very high, but if you completed a set of targets then the value would go up drastically. The bumpers were hard to get to from the flippers because of the wall in front of them, but if you angled a shot off the side of the table you could drop the ball into them and it would bounce around in there for quite a while. If the bumpers were in their high score mode then one or two of these shots would almost guarantee a free game score. In '76 this machine seemed like a fairly old one, but not as old as early '60s. I know that's not much of a description, but I'm hoping someone will know this machine.
I know I'd recognize these tables if I saw them, but I just can't remember their names. I've scoured the table images online and I can't find anything that looks like them. Even if I couldn't get emulations for these tables, it would be nice to know their names, so I would be grateful for any help here.