1976 Williams SPACE MISSION (Space Odyssey) pinball machine

Here's a 1976 Williams Space Mission pinball machine in action for your viewing pleasure. This is the four player version of Space Odyssey, which is the same game in a two player format.
This game is fairly iconic and Williams made a tonne of them (over 11,600, in fact), although I'm not really sure why. It's not a great game, although it's "ok". Shoot the swinging target to light A, B and C to light the saucers for double bonus, the centre lane at the top for extra ball and the out lanes for special. The game is plagued by the left and right kickers by the flippers that prevent the player from being able to cradle the ball and instead the game just plays itself. Pretty ho-hum if you ask me, but some people seem to dig it.
The loop shot at the top right is tough to hit but relatively satisfying when made. The spinner shot to the top is also fairly fun to blast. Otherwise pretty underwhelming.
Space Mission was designed by Steve Kordek (of course) with art by Christian Marche. For more information about this game, see here:
www.ipdb.org/m...

[@JUBYDUK]

Grew up on this machine in the late 70’s. Mastered it!

[@TheWALLofMusic]

Played this one a lot in the late 70's when I was a teenager.

[@donmorton7282]

We had this machine when I was growing up back in the 80s. Our version was called Space Odyssey.

[@davidlineweaver2263]

I got reacquainted with this game at the expo in Schaumburg, IL last month. I felt the outer kickers gave the game a certain feeling of weightlessness, and it does make ball control a challenge. (That same expo had a Williams Doodle Bug which actually had a gap between the flipper and the slingshot rubber -- you try to cradle the ball on THAT game and it's an instant drain.)

[@Paulywint]

I played this game back in the early to mid 80s at a bar, and I also played this game about 2 weeks ago at an arcade.

[@andrewfischer8564]

i played it as a kid. then i had one. it was my first as a collector.. i miss it

[@Urko2005]

Great table.

[@jayducharme]

Fun game!

[@PlasticBubbleCosplay]

My favorite.