William's Hyperball

[NovaXpress]

I guess this was poorly distributed, but I had this at my childhood arcade for months and worshipped it.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...=R&game_id=2969

KLOV has nothing on this game and erroneously identifies it as a pinball. It was actually a 100% mechanical shoot-em-up. You had a rotating cannon (think Commando Raid) and your job was to shoot dozens of pinballs which attacked your base. Your cannon fired small metal pellets like a machine gun. It was more intense than almost any video game I've enver played.

 

Does anyone else know of this game, or know of any still existing?

[NE146]

Yeah I know of a guy in #rgvac who had two real nice ones but sold one of them (there are others there with the pin as well), and this other guy who lives here in Seattle who bought one just last year. Great game. I think it's still a pinball.. granted there are no flippers.. but still.

[NovaXpress]

I'd kill to play one again. Have you tried it out? It sure isn't anything like a pinball. You shoot the large balls until they fall into scoring holes while defending your base. It was really weird, gotta be the last mechanical target game ever made.

[Ralph3]

Here is a great page with Hyperball info:

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=hyperbal...earchtype=quick

Killer list of video games is no good for pinball games.

Your welcome!

[Ralph3]

I have seen 2 going to the VG auctions. I wish they worked (fully) to see how to properly play it.

[goatdan]

For all practical purposes, games like Hyberball have always had the designation of being a pinball game -- Williams marketed Hyperball and Bally marketed the same basic game but I forget it's name as a new style of pinball. Everything in it was made up of pinball parts, and they were produced and assembled by the pinball department.

 

They both did really poorly, thus the low distrubtion numbers and the reason you don't see more of them.