1975 Williams Pat Hand Pinball Machine - Electromechanical awesomeness!

ladies and gentlemen this is joe's classic video games back with another really cool arcade game video for you this evening whenever we finish up a game we like to take a little video of it if we haven't videoed it before this is a pinball machine actually this evening this is williams 1975 electromechanical pat hand we've got it all fixed up doing its thing so we figured we'd show it off a little bit now if you've seen our videos before you know we don't make them look brand new or anything but we do get them playing good so that's what the original art looks like on the side of course it's a like a card theme kind of interesting if you look at the side it's got like a royal look like a king and queen look because of cards but on the back glass it has a geesha girl kind of neat though besides here is a little more worn you can see on the back box some of the paint's missing might have been stored somewhere where it flaked off or got wet or something but looks pretty cool but check out that back glass that's awesome nicely drawn so it's got the cards coming out from behind her like the hearts and the spades in different colors and then there's some trees over here behind some little flowers down here it's got kind of cool colors too there's kind of blues and greens with a little bit of pink kind of neat and in her hand she's holding this uh i guess that's a straight right or is that a royal flush what's 10 jack queen is that our oil flush i don't know you can tell i don't gamble much but that is a pat hand we looked up to see what pat hand meant pat hand means whenever you're dealt like five cards in poker and you don't hit on it you just uh you take your uh you just keep your cards that you have because it's a good enough hand that you think you're going to win with that so you don't discard anything so that's what she's got right there and then you've got a down here it's kind of like a like a little pond or whatever so it's kind of like a nice little japanese flare to it this was from 1975 so this was uh uh after about another year williams would have been out of the electromechanical pinball business so this was one of the last dozen or so they probably made up to four players can play at once so here's the play field play field's in pretty good shape of course we always take everything apart and clean it and fix whatever we can and we didn't have to do any touch-up on this one it was a already pretty decent it's got a lot of it's it's a real open kind of play field but it has a lot of rollover buttons so there's five up there at the top and then there's another five over here and then there's another five in the middle so there's 15 all together and then you've got these four targets over here on the right that are the four jokers and then you've got five targets up there in the middle and that's it as far as like things you can hit you can i guess headed over here to the uh to the pop bumpers so it doesn't have a lot of uh doesn't have a lot of uh stuff in the middle of the play field and as you can see it's wide open but the artwork's kind of cool check out the joker pretty neat and if you look he's actually in similar japanese garb like a big robe standing there in the middle kind of cool and there's another princess over here and then over here there's just some hearts and spades going up the side like on the side of the cabinet so they're a real good job with the theme like the colors all kind of go together with the back glass and everything kind of interesting this one's kind of cool because you can't lose the ball without the left outline the only way you can lose it is through the middle or through the right side over here so let's read the let's read the instructions shall we instructions when credit light is lit press credit button and wait for machine to reset before pressing credit button for additional players each player shoots one ball at a time as indicated on the back glass so down at the bottom it says ball and play tilt penalties the ball and play tilt does not disqualify players so basically if you tilt the game shake it too much you lose that ball it doesn't uh make it where you lose your whole game making five cards 10 through ace once likes the 1000 rollover button and bumpers the second time lights the bonus score double the third time light special lights so five cards 10 through ace are these rollovers here in the center of the playfield 10 jack queen king ace so once you uh roll over them and get all five of them and the reason some of them are lit up right now and some of them aren't because the last game we just played we hit a couple of them so it those two are disabled right now but whenever you start the game all five of them light up and then you as you roll over them the light goes off so you can tell which ones you need to hit so the first time you do that it lights the 1000 roll over button and bumpers so these two pop bumpers here it says 10 or 100 points when lit those light up whenever you uh make all five of those the first time and then also it lights these actually i think it lights the top ones don't quote me on it but i believe it lights these top five up here and so every time you roll over it you get a thousand points when you roll over it without the without them lit up right now you get 100 points all right second time lights bonus scores double double bonus win lit so basically this bonus ladder here as you roll over these uh five over here on the side and if you look at the way they're arranged they're in a kind of a semi-circle that's that if you hit it just right you can hit all five of them at the same time which is pretty cool you actually do that a lot in the game so it'll make it where your bonus ladder whatever that score is at the end each ball is double if that light's on double bonus when lit and then the third time it lights the special lights so that's this here special you know can be set up where uh you win a free game uh if you make that shot or you could they could be set where you win a free ball if you make that shot all right hitting indicated special target when lit scores one replay so the way this is set up right now you get a free game since it's in home use that's not too big of a deal because you it's on free play anyways you just hit start but it's still fun to get you get to hear the knocker make the noise hitting all four jokers scores one extra ball so these four over here look if i get the glare from the light off of it so you've got these four stand up targets when you hit them the light on the front comes on the joker light if you get all four it says win lit same player shoots again and then it lights up down there at the bottom so it says same player shoots again maximum one extra ball per ball in play one player for each player matching the last two numbers on the score rules to lighted number that appears on backlash when game is over so that's the famous match as you can see up here 50 is lit up right now so that was the match number so player 1 got 40 player 2 got 80 player 3 got 90 and player 4 got 10 so nobody matched that time there you go that is williams 1975 pat hand really cool game there was a two player version too but it had all different artwork and stuff i can't remember what it's called but uh that came out just before this one but uh it's a pretty fun game it's real wide open though so there's there's not a ton to hit at so you've got a lot of long shots and you've got this cool little target bank up here that you can hit pretty good from from the flippers where you get 50 points and then one light is always lit up for three thousand points so if you hit it of course you get three thousand these top lights up here whenever you roll over them those roll over buttons it makes that move so that the lit up one will move around so it's kind of cool so i'll set up a tripod and play through it a little bit and you can see uh how the how it plays and you can see uh kind of how that extra flipper helps you and how you can make that shot and make all five of those at the same time a lot kind of cool game so i will be back with the tripod okay so here we go we'll play through it a little bit of course this is an em pinball so there's no attract mode or anything it just sits here like so but we'll play it a little bit and i'll just show you what it's like again uh on the rules basically you're trying to get these five middle rollovers and if you hit that lit up target one of these targets you get three thousand points each time so that's pretty cool also if you get all the jokers you get a free ball so we'll see what we can do all right i also we rebuilt the chime unit which is pretty easy to do basically you just need to get it where the little chime bars are isolated from the metal underneath it there's a little rubber washer that wears out if you put a new rubber washer on there it makes them i'm pointing over here because they're right there if you put a new washers on it usually makes it sound pretty good so here we go nothing air ball hmm shot it right by me my score as it stands is one thousand one hundred and ten points that's horrible it resets all of the rollover switches after each ball too we got to get it cooking here come on now let's hit some stuff i guess i shouldn't be really making that shot because it's nothing to hit up there there we go horrible 19 480. it's disgustingly bad so i finally got my 3000 shot once hmm six 14 eighty and did you hear the little clunk the little knock that's because the 80 match light is lit up and the uh the score ended in 80 so i want a free game it's amazing how all that stuff works after you clean and adjust everything that you get even the old-school stuff like the match working yeah i love that shot whenever it rolls down all five rollovers that's the sucker shot it's i've seen it do that two or three times it'll hit this and if it hits it just right it'll bounce off it hit the bump the pop bumper and then go straight down the middle ah man that outside dream's crazy i hit the slide the upper flipper that wasn't good well i need one rollover let's see if i can get it the the king 25 340 that's a little better you know what they say practice makes perfect hmm horrible that's bad whenever you can see it going straight down the middle from all the way up there i should have shook it a little bit you got to get it instinctively good at a you gotta get instinctively good at uh rubbing it a little bit uh shake the ball where you want it to go i'll leave it at that i'll just shut up while i'm ahead hmm saved hmm hmm all right 21 300. play one more game i missed it i was trying to do like a skill shot where from the plunger you hit those five rollovers did not work like that i got all the rollovers i tried to put the flipper out to knock it it just barely tipped it enough to where it made it go straight down the middle well there it is folks i bet if you got good enough you could start you could get the flipper here you could actually make a shot up and here round where it just barely had enough steam to hit all five again and then do it again i guess you could try that over and over again and see what kind of luck you could get but there you go folks this is williams pat hand pinball machine working well fun little game by the way that's what the back glass looks like lit up neat little thing it's got a little bit of flaking on it but not much looks pretty good i like it it's kind of a plain game because there's not too much going on but a lot of it's because they sacrificed the whole center of the play field for those five rollovers right there um and rollovers are the kind of thing where you don't really even notice if you hit them a lot of times you just hear a you hear a chime and you're not really sure what you hit to make that happen so um again i've said it on other videos games like this a lot of times whenever they're vastly different than other games like this than a typical game it's a lot of times it was just because they were looking for something different you know it's so that it would stand out in the in the arcade or wherever it was at as being completely different from all the other games and i think they accomplished that with this but i'm not sure if this is uh the most fun game i've ever played but it's pretty cool so by the time you see this video we may not even have mrs pat hand for sale anymore she may have gish it off to somebody else's house but you can see all of the games that we do have for sale at this moment no matter when you're watching this video on our website at lionsarcade.com or you can stop by our shop here too and check them out in person if you'd like we're in downtown rock hill south carolina which is about 15 minutes south of charlotte north carolina and we've got a whole building here full of games like this mostly arcade games but we do usually have one or two pinball machines they just take so long to get working again uh that uh we don't get a lot of them in just because uh you just have to spend many many hours getting them back up and running but if you're not looking for an arcade game or you're not looking for a pinball machine you just like watching these videos that's fine too subscribe to us here on youtube and every time we uh we get a uh a new game done we'll uh we'll put up a little video of it by the way check out our little topper that we put on it it's this little gisha statue looks kind of cool let's see if i can get a better picture of it here maybe too dark to see it well but pretty cool so there you go all right we will see you on the next video