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St. Louis pinball machine

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Williams · 1949

St. Louis

Notable Features

5 balls for 5 cents. Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Passive bumpers 5), Kick-out holes (4), The kick-out hole between the flippers functions as an end-of-ball bonus. Handicap Scoring feature (Automatic Replay Percentaging).

1949
Year
Produced
1
Players
Specifications
Manufacturer
Williams
Year Released
1949
Type
EM
Display
lights
Model #
27
Players
1
Credits
Design
Harry Williams
Art
George Molentin

Historical Notes

The manufacturer's flyer indicates this game introduced "Handicap Scoring". When this feature is enabled by the operator, getting a certain number of replays causes the score needed for the first replay to increase for the next game. After a number of games are played without earning more replays, the score needed for a replay decreases. The score needed for the first replay, called the "lited skill score" on the score card, lights up in one of five colored areas in the lower left portion of the backglass. This feature is controlled by a separate step unit in the backbox that increments in step with the replay unit and decrements a step each time a replay is played off. If the feature is disabled by the operator, the five colored areas will not light and the first replay will always occur at some fixed score. A different score card will then be used, one that does not make reference to a "lited skill score". Handicap Scoring is an unusual feature for an electromechanical pin game. A more sophisticated version appeared in solid state games starting with Williams' 1986 'High Speed' and was referred to as Auto-percentaging. If anyone has internal access to this game, please contact us with your photographs. We hope to document the operational details of this feature.

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