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Notable Features

This is a pinball machine disguised as a video game. Flippers are operated by joysticks on control panel. Has two playfields. Main playfield has two 3-inch flippers, one pop bumper, and a kick-back lane. Ball is launched into play from between flippers. Completing target sequence on main playfield activates lower playfield which has two 2-inch flippers and its own ball. 3 or 5 ball play. To quote "Uncle Willy": "Varkon is a two-level game, although each playfield has its own ball. (The ball does not pass between the two playfields.) The lower playfield is visible through a window in the upper playfield. Both playfields are tilted away from the player and viewed through a mirror. The mirror is mounted at eye-level, so the illusion is presented that the ball is moving about on a vertical playfield. The mirror is only partially silvered and the score displays are mounted behind it. Also mounted behind the mirror are some flash lamps behind a screened plastic. The effect of the flash lamps when they fire is to overlay lightning bolts over the reflected image of the playfield. The playfield on Varkon is a combination of wood and plexiglass. The plexiglass overlays the wood, and is screened with artwork."

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