Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), pages 28 and 110 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F The Complete Pinball Book, pages 216-217, Times Educational Supplement 3861, June 29, 1990, pp. Examples of earlier games with multi-level playfields are Fisher & Coe Manufacturing Company's 1933 'Grand Central' and Chicago Vending Company's 1934 'Three Point'.Ĭhicago Tribune December 31, 1989, pp. 'Black Knight' was the first solid state game with a multi-level playfield. The timers would reset the banks, so they weren't exposed often enough to justify the cost of keeping them. The switch was removed because it never really got a chance to be hit much. Other games might not even have the cut outs. Games that do not have switches might still have the playfield cutouts. We do not know how many production games had these switches. The switch can be seen in the flyer game if one looks carefully at the center drop bank. Three of the four slots cut into this playfield for the drop target banks also have a cutout to support a vertical rebound switch. The current owner states this glass is a lot thinner than regular backglasses, and that artist Tony Ramunni's signature on it is different.Īlso pictured in this listing is a stripped playfield from the game with serial number 457797. The knight's armor is a teal color, not gray like in production glasses. The transformer, normally found on this board in later games in the production run, is located in the backbox.Īlso pictured in this listing is a Pre-Production backglass owned for many years by Steve Ritchie. This picture shows a board upon which rests the line filter and the main power fuse. Games identified with System 6 boards are not restricted to Early Production, based on their cabinet serial numbers.įrom France, we have a picture of the inside lower cabinet for an Early Production game having serial number 458205 and the owner states it has a regular System 6 Power board. The serial number of one of them is 460804 and the playfield has "Dec 2 1980" on it. Pictured in this listing are the inside backboxes of games having System 7 boards in them, except for the power supply board which is System 6. Relay was then mounted on a new power supply board, part# D-8345. During production, the transformer was moved to the lower cabinet and the G.I. In the beginning of the production run, the transformer was located in the backbox, and the game used power supply board part# D-7999, with a stand-alone General Illumination Relay mounted to the backbox floor. My design was a simple eight-sided "Jewel Look", but insert texturing progressed from there to many different designs, finally settling on refracting radial lines originating at the center of round and rectangular inserts and from points of arrows and lightning bolts, etc. Steve Ritchie confirmed his voice was used on this game.īlack Knight was the first game ever to employ faceted inserts (the transparent inlaid plastic windows) in the playfield. The user had to perform some task to re-enable magnasave. It would stop and hold the ball and drop it into the inlane. Magna-Save was a feature where a user could press a button on either side and magnets would prevent the ball from draining via that outlane. Paul Dussault did the English Speech Processing for this game.īlack Knight' introduced ' Magna-Save' and the Bonus Ball concept where the player with the highest score won additional seconds of free play. Bonus Ball, 2- or 3-ball Multiball.Īctual measured weight: 254 lbs (includes legs).įor several Williams games (especially before 1987), Speech Processing was a separate task than Software Programming and may have been done by a different person than whom we list as having done the Software. View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database () (External site)įlippers (4), Pop bumper (1), Slingshots (2), 3-bank drop targets (4), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning target (1). Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) Order Arcade games online.Internet Pinball Machine Database: Williams 'Black Knight' 3 Flippers- 1 flipper on upper playfieldīuy used pinball machines for sale online at affordable cost from the Classicpinballguru, fully refurbished pinball machines for sale.Magna-Save now operated by front molding button.Shooter lane ramp to upper and lower playfield.Lexan upper Playfield with 3 entrance points.Coil Driven ball interactive shield mechanism.Motorized ball Interactive Flail Mechanism.
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