Stern Flight 2000 Pinball Machine from 1980 - Classic Multiball And Speech Design By Harry Williams!

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's video games back with another great machine here it's an arcade game but it's a pinball game too right arcade games aren't necessarily video games they're just games in an arcade so this is an arcade game this really awesome pinball machine this is n this is Sterns 1980 flight 2000 it's a really cool game we still got a a couple little things to do on it but it's pretty much finished we got this in a while back and I've been working on it a little bit it's a widebody game again it came out in 1980 it's kind of famous it's considered one of the better Sterns show you a little bit of the artwork and stuff this is a widebody it was Stern's first game with uh speed so it has like a synthesized voice which fits the Space theme really well and this came out in 1980 so it was I think it was after Williams did speech but it was before uh Bal did speech and the back glass is pretty awesome flight 2000 so there's these little ships and when you see them at first if you don't pay any attention you don't notice what's going on but there's a like a lady in that ship and then on these there's a guy standing in that one and a guy standing in that one and a guy standing in that one it's just a cool game it's a it's a four player game and it has this really unique uh multiball feature um where basically you count down you lock two balls and then you and actually has a physical ball lock I'll show you that here in a minute and you uh it actually counts down and then you start a three ball multiball with it this game was designed by the great Harry Williams there's his signature right there the story behind it's kind of interesting it's not necessarily about this particular game but Harry Williams is the Harry Williams that started Williams pinball um some people call him the father of pinball he's he's not necessarily that but he was definitely a pioneer he's one of the early guys he was working in the industry in the 20s that's a long time ago and uh in the 30s he was significantly working in Industry designing machines and stuff and he was real creative at coming up with like mechanical things so one of the things that he came up with with was they were having problems where people were cheating the machines by beating on them you know like moving them around and stuff and so he invented and even named the Tilt mechanism that's in all of the you know pretty much every pinball machines so love it or hate it he came up with the Tilt mechanism and kind of even came up with that word before that nobody really used that word but now you know people use the word tilt it's not always uh doesn't always have a pinball connotation um but that was just one of his inventions he came up with all kinds of cool stuff um little electric things back whenever he started in the 30s there were pinball machines would have uh hardly anything on them just pins and holes and uh he came up with little electric doodads that ran off batteries and stuff that made it do different things and over his entire career he came up with all kinds of stuff I'm not sure if he invented if he personally invented that little ball Walker thing that I'll show you here in a minute that's so cool about this game I don't know if he was the one that invented that maybe some of the um engineers at Stern came up with it but so anyway in the 40s Harry Stern I mean Harry Williams started Williams manufacturing company with u uh Sam Stern friend of his and the two of them founded that company in the 40s well about 1960 they sold the company um and uh Mr Williams retired and enjoyed a nice retirement right well in the late 70s 1977 or so Sam Stern's son Gary Stern got together a bunch of money and some some uh employees and bought out Chicago Coin and turned it into Stern Electronics um you can see on the back glass there so if you go back and you think about this this was a couple years after Stern Electronics was founded and you know it was founded by Sam Stern's friend I mean a son Gary Stern well when he founded the company they needed pinball designs so Sam Stern picked up the phone and called his then 70-year-old buddy from back in the day Harry Williams the brilliant pinball inventor brought him out out of retirement and he started designing games for stern again so he designed several of them this is one of them this this came out in late 1980 and like I said it's a wide body it's got multiball It's got speech it was their first game with speech and so if you know the the pinball designers you know different ones do different things but what he was really good at was coming out with the layout coming up with the layout of the Playfield and he designed this game in late 1980 he did two or three more games um by that time he was in his late 70s and uh he retired again and he passed away I think uh about two years after he designed this game so this is you know this isn't necessarily his best game but it's certainly one of his good ones um so like I said it's a wide body so there's a lot more shots on the game you've got a You' got five drop targets here 1 2 3 4 5 you can see a couple of those have broken and been replaced over the years and the font's a little different over here you've got three more drop targets there's a really cool shot from this left flipper it's kind of hard to do but it can be done where you make that shot right it through there hit that spinner that's the wrong spinner but it spins hit that spinner and hit all three drop targets and so you see this here says top score uh 50,000 points drop three targets with one shot when light is lit if you if you knock all three of them down with one shot and that lights on you get 50,000 points which is a cool shot and you can make that shot it's it's cool whenever you do um yeah that spinner has been replaced you can see it's got the wrong art on it it should have the art like this one on it but it looks kind of cool so we left it plus you can't really I guess we could buy a sticker for it but that don't make a replacement spinner I don't believe so anyway uh you got two pop bumpers there and you've got these rollover l L at the top says 5,000 in advanced bonus everyone you go through all right and then you've got your in Lanes here and your in Lanes here and then you have the ball Walker now there there's a shot right up the middle there too that special shot 25,000 and increased bonus multiplier spot blast when lit I'll show you that here in a minute so basically you have this cool shot up this side through that spinner and the ball can if you hit it hard enough it can come all the way up and then it lands and it hits that little switch right there you can barely see it that little wire that's sticking up there is a switch well when it hits that the uh little assembly here knows that there's a ball right there so it lowers it pulls a coil in and it lowers that little thing there this one comes up then it reverses and the ball sits right there so the first ball sits right there and it uh it locks it like that and it says first ball locked if you knock a second one up there the second ball hits that little switch again and the little they call it a ball Walker it does this number again and the one ball drops down to the second spot and this ball drops to the first spot and so it locks there and the other ball locks there and it says second stage locked or whatever you know and so once you've done that every ball you knock up through there will cycle through so with the if if you knock a third ball up through here when it hits here the ball Walker walks and the ball drops down to here hits that switch gets kicked out up to here hits that switch gets kicked out up to here back into the thing but since it since it did that the two s are still locked you just cycled one through basically so it'll keep doing that over and over and over again until you do the right sequence so basically you got to lock two balls and then you have to spell blast off so the way you do that is where is the B yeah the B's over here in the out lane b l a s t blast and if you get one word it goes blast and then o f f you don't have to do it in order or anything but if you spell out blast off each time you hit one it lights up it over here right and whenever you finally get that done it says all system go all systems go Rockets ready to blast off and so then what you do is you go to these drop targets and you complete them in reverse order 5 4 3 2 1 and when you do it blasts off the extra balls and now you've got a three ball multiball really cool I mean it's just a unique way to do it Harry Williams guy was pretty cool so there it is flight 2000 really fun game I'll get the tripod and we'll set it up and we'll play it a little bit and you can hear uh you can hear the speech and see what you think standard disclaimer I am not a great pinball player but we'll play through a couple rounds and let you see what it's all about all right folks here we go I've turned the volume up a little bit I know it's kind of hard to see what's going on but uh you can see it a little better when the ball's rolling around sometimes I film these with the glass off I left it on on this one with the glass off it just it's not it just doesn't they don't play right like everything's the uh coils are really loud and it just I like playing with the glass on so here we go hopefully it's not too loud that's how speech sounded in 1980 all right so basically what I'm going to try to do first is uh either try to lock two balls and also try to spell blast off so a lot of what I'm going to try to do is try to get the ball up that way so I can get those top four rollovers W yeah stage go first stage go so the first ball is locked and I have got the B and the a so far and I'm still on ball one there's the T there's the o oh hit the glass A little bit oh missed it got the f got that cool red target right in the middle ah so I'm trying to get it back up to the rollovers at the top there sometimes the pop bumpers will kick it up through one of the lanes and you get another letter so now I'm going try to I'm cradling it so I'll try to make that uh the lock shot oh not quite enough there we go so I got the L that's a cool shot you can make that shot all the way up to Playfield through the through the right roll over blast blast all right and I've almost got off it's just the F on the side so now I got the lock a ball I don't think I can lock it with the left flipper I don't think there's any way to handle me and I don't know you can sometimes you can pass the ball from the left flipper to the right flipper but I'm not really good enough to do that see that shot it goes through the the right roll through at the top all the way from the left flipper I got I got the three uh the three drop Targets in one shot oh man I can't make that shot ah oh okay that was a pretty good ball I think I got 470,000 I locked one ball and I spelled out blast off already so now I I just need to lock another ball and at the top you can't see it on the camera but at the top it says uh first stage go already and you can see the Apollo one light is lit right here and I I don't know if you saw that shot I was talking about this left flipper you can hit the ball again all praise to Harry Williams you can hit the ball from here and this is a wide body machine it's really big you can hit the ball from here all the way up the Playfield and through this roll over so I I made that shot a couple times all the way up and through and then it bounce around and go through another one fantastic shot oh the pinball game giveth and the pinball game taketh away I I got 470,000 on the first ball and 29,000 on the second ball sucks almost did it again Ah that's that horrible so I'm going to do it again it's going to keep that one ball up there locked but if you shoot up through there it'll let that one go and it'll say uh or it'll just lock one even though you got two up there ooh little glass there we go see it said first stage go but both are locked it's going to eject one after I get the second one in it'll eject the other one out oh that's nice didn't didn't make anything happen but it was nice oh hey I think I did it with the left flipper I'll have to watch the video back all right so I got both balls locked already now I just need to spell blast off and do the drop targets ah all right so all I need is the T and the f ah Horrible Harry Williams would not be proud so I need that I need that shot I was bragging about there's the f all right so I got to live up at the top there commence countdown folks the five's already down though I don't know if it'll work like that I guess it will oh go man I had one drop Target left all right folks I am running out of quarters PR for Mission but I am prepared for the mission ah but I wasn't prepared for that first stage go first stage go ah it's too fast for me yeah yeah BL second stage go so I need to get that f I don't know how I can get it over there without it just popcorning over there there we go down blast off woooo here we go blast ah I lost one well that was shortlived but it was fun and there we go all right got the new high score since I worked on the board though which really isn't all that impressive but there you go glad I finally got it to work the uh this game really looks good and with the lights on and everything so there you have it that is Sterns 1980 flight 2000 really cool game um by the time you see this video flight 2000 may have flown onto its new home so this video isn't really just to sell it to you or anything um we're just trying to show some cool games that we get in we try to film a video if we get anything interesting in it somebody might want to see uh you may be watching this 10 years from now I don't know but um you can see all of the games that we do have for sale right now even if it is 10 years from now uh on lions 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