Banzai Run Playfield

Name: Banzai Run Playfield
SKU: PLAF-BANZAI
Price: 899.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$899.00 USD

Williams BANZAI RUN
Short-Run Reproduction Playfields from CPR

Finally back after 4 years of being unavailable! Our first batch of Banzai Run playfields since 2017. Depending on sales results, we’ll try to keep these in standard rotation. New digital master layout worked from the original Williams film set – not a redraw. All colors matched to the original Williams color choices (Pantone numbers) noted on each film layer. 5-layer polyeurethane clearcoated. Complete gallery with close-ups for your consideration. As with all our small-batch runs, consider these “get them while they’re available!”

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SKU: PLAF-BANZAI Category: Playfields

Banzai Run

Manufacturer:

Williams Electronics Games, Incorporated, a subsidiary of WMS Ind.,
Incorporated (1985-1999) [Trade Name: Williams]

Date Of Manufacture:

May 20, 1988

Model Number:

566

Common Abbreviations:

MPU:

Williams System 11B

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

1,751 units (confirmed)

Theme:

Sports – Motorcycles/Motocross

Specialty:

Mechanical Backbox Animation

Notable Features:

Flippers (3 horizontal, 3 vertical), Pop bumpers (3), Ramp (1), Kick-out hole (1), Spinning targets (2), Left outlane kickback, Captive balls (1 horizontal, 2 vertical), Up-post (between bottom flippers on the vertical playfield), Ball kicker next to the left slingshot, 2-ball Multiball. A magnet on a moving vertical track lifts the ball in play to the vertical playfield in the backbox. When this ball drains between the bottom flippers of the vertical playfield, it returns to play in the lower horizontal playfield.

Concept by:

Pat Lawlor

Design by:

Pat Lawlor, Larry DeMar

Art by:

Mark Sprenger

Mechanics by:

John Krutsch

Music by:

Brian Schmidt

Sound by:

Brian Schmidt

Software by:

Larry DeMar, Ed Boon

Notes:

An earlier example of a game with a vertical scoring playfield in the backbox is Genco’s 1951 ‘Double Action’.

This game was inspired by a 1987 independently made prototype called Wreck’n Ball.

In our Files section are many pictures of a prototype version of Banzai Run and a chart comparing its differences to the production version.

Although this game features a two-ball multiball only, three balls should be placed in the trough.

This is the first pinball machine to have the Lane Change switches implemented as low-voltage switches located at the flipper buttons, not at the flipper End-Of-Stroke. This allowed Banzai Run to play sounds when the flipper buttons are pressed in attract mode where flippers are not activated.

Larry DeMar provided these comments:

I can confirm that Banzai Run had 3 balls although it only ever needed 2. The software was capable of adjusting to a missing ball and not putting the game out of service. I suspect it is correct that this was the first time this was done. Later WMS games would adjust down to any number of balls (at least 1) available, but this was where it started.

I’m not sure about whether it was the first to use low voltage switches for the flipper buttons, but it was the first that I programmed to make an attract mode sound when the button was pressed so it is likely that this is true.

*Info Courtesy of IPDB

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