Williams' High Speed Pinball Machine Is Finally Done!

[@LyonsArcade]

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[@joshh9773]

I remember dumping countless quarters in one of these as a kid in the 90s. Brought back a lot of memories

[@LyonsArcade]

Really fun game, what a classic!

[@pezjohnson]

Got to watch Steve Richie play on my friends High-Speed earlier this year and the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown. My friend had the biggest smile when Steve said it was the best machine he had played on.

[@LyonsArcade]

Steve's so slick, he probably tells all the machines that :)

[@kjemradio]

Do you have a link to this video?

[@richardsensabaugh1312]

Thanks for the tip about adding fuse for transformer to rectifier circuit. You even gave the fuse value to use, 8Asb. Nice to have the added safety. You are the MAN!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks Richard I have two I have to do this to today!

[@melanatedprose9134]

This series of videos was more enjoyable than the 10 part "Last Dance" documentary, without question. The expression on the woman's face on the back glass was hilarious. I see why this was the best selling pinball machine ever or at least until the recording of this video. So far, I don't remember viewing a video where you had so much fun playing either a pinball or video game. Great work!!!!!!

[@LyonsArcade]

Now I know not to watch The Last Dance :) Thank you for watching melanated prose!

[@rubicon-oh9km]

Very cool. I used to feed quarters into this machine as a kid in about '81 at the bowling alley while my parents were league bowling.

[@LyonsArcade]

This thing was a masterpiece!

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

You mean '86? Because that's the year this game came out.

[@kjemradio]

I so remember playing this game. Absolutely loved it, but I was not very skilled at going through all the sequences. What drove me to this game as a kid? The traffic lights. If I owned this machine today, I'd find a way of adding my real traffic lights on either side of the cabinet and wiring it into the main system. This is a game where you must say "shut up and take my money!"

[@LyonsArcade]

That would be pretty cool, I'm sure you could make that happen, the voltage that turns on the lamps could be used to turn on a little relay or something for the large traffic lights...

[@firehawk6188]

One of my top 3 favorite pinball games.

[@LyonsArcade]

It was a great game, and came out at the perfect time, very iconic and still holds up after all these years.

[@MichaelAStanhope]

The very first, and one of the best Williams System 11 games! That backglass is beautiful! Still a great game, even today. They made a TON of these things, I think it was one of the best, if not the best selling System 11 game.

[@LyonsArcade]

For sure, such a great game, really like playing this one!

[@kennynvake4hve584]

You got my heart pumping hard.....way cool.........so it is working as it should.....................

[@corybrink6259]

Absolutely took me back to Home Town Pizza, high school job! Flop and I were high score always!! Thanks for pulling out the memories

[@PinBallReviewerRepairs]

High-Speed had a bunch of firsts it was the first pinball machine to have a diverter on a ramp. :)

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Feel your frustration on that ramp shot from 30 years ago!!! Love this game. Such a flowing table.

[@johnfranco4417]

That’s a work of art. Sure miss playing.

[@LyonsArcade]

Certainly a legendary one!

[@shermanikk]

I love your repair videos, but this table is amazing and I've never seen it before. Fantastic sound effects/music, outstanding lights (especially love the tach in the center), and the layout is great too. Surprisingly fair too, no death lanes on the sides either. Really thank you for showing these tables in all their glory, pinball has always been a love of mine. That searchlight effect is fucking awesome! I can tell you really love these machines too and understand what makes them great with the way you repair them, not necessarily restoring them but making sure the switches are responsive, the flippers smooth and hit hard, pop bumpers always responding etc. Things like that are what make a machine fun to play because nothing is more frustrating than having your awesome skill shot ruined because of an unresponsive sensor or weak coil/spring. Can't even count the number of tables in shitty bars I played with messed up flippers or completely dead pop bumpers that totally ruined the experience. When you're watching the ball fly around who gives a fuck about paint "alligatoring" on the logo!

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah man it's one of the absolute best ever, and it was done before they really went crazy with them. It's solid.... just blows my mind what they could pull off way back in 85 or 86 when it was made. I agree with you too on the mechanics, Some of the older EM's I can't really get them to play super fast because they just weren't designed like that anyways, but I try to get everything 'zippy' hahaha. In my personal collection honestly I could care less about alligatoring, etc. Thanks for watching, we appreciate it :)

[@tjgiraulo2087]

The slo-mo edit at the end of the video was awesome! Nice finish to another great series.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks Tj, see you on the next one!

[@saskia6750]

Thank you joe for this last installment :) another great video !

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks Hope, we appreciate you being such a loyal viewer :)

[@IRTheBorg]

My daddy always told me "find something you love doing, and you'll never work a day in your life" Sir, you must be having a blast! :-) Thumbs Up! -Larry

[@LyonsArcade]

It's like any job, it has it's ups and downs :) Pretty fun though :) Thanks for watching Larry!

[@K1TT3NM1TT3N5]

I play this machine on pin ball fx3 all the time! I’m slowly purchasing the whole Williams collection on there. Dying to find one to play in person

[@LyonsArcade]

Come on down :)

[@danashcroft961]

One of the best pinball machines ever...

[@icychill105]

this is a cool series to see, we have a high speed machine with more wear than that but good to have reference if we ever need to clean and replace parts

[@LyonsArcade]

Glad you enjoyed it, see you on the next video!

[@majordisappointment8692]

I love that game luckily i have a place that has one that works nice thanks for the video.

[@LyonsArcade]

Very cool, good to see them still out being operated!

[@nonsuch]

The playfield is very similar to another Williams table called The Getaway... which I play a lot in Pinball FX3. Good stuff 👍

[@kepler240]

The Getaway is actually High Speed 2

[@nonsuch]

@@kepler240 Indeed. I figured that out last week. lol

[@pinball541]

The video where the Bridge Rectifiers shorted was on your most recent Pin-Bot machine. I had the bridge Rectifiers fused in my High Speed, & Pin-Bot machines. Williams pinball machines were always my favorite to play. Any Fire Pinballs coming in the future? Hello from Phoenix Arizona!

[@LyonsArcade]

This one would have been a 'fire' if I didn't add that fuse :) No I haven't ran across a Fire yet unfortunately, but hopefully in the near future. The next Williams game we'll be doing down the line is a Whirlwind!

[@AwesomeGames56]

Man I’ve got to get myself one of these!

[@LyonsArcade]

It's pretty Awesome!

[@Wildfire86872]

@@LyonsArcade What's te going rate for High Speed ones?

[@whiskyguzzler982]

Played High Speed II for a few hours last night at a local place. Not as good as the original, but that might be nostalgia talking. I’d love to own the original!

[@LyonsArcade]

I've never played the second one, need to get one in!

[@markt6199]

Ok, so around the 30 minute mark I had 2 visions: 1 Being the Statue of Liberty in Ghost busters and the 2nd is you actually dancing in the showroom. LOL

[@LyonsArcade]

I forgot about that in GhostBusters, that song just randomly came on the radio when I was about to adjust that light board higher so I thought it was appropriate :)

[@PinBallReviewerRepairs]

Also I noticed that when you do the left loop the ball would hit something just before the right loop it would hit it about where the Right Jet Bumper is. It should transition smoothly and not hit anything mine I can do loops all day no problem.

[@paulclarke7571]

One of the most unforgiving game ever made. I just bought one last week. It is an absolute blast to play!

[@paulclarke7571]

The lights sweeping across the playfield ( in a search light mode) happens when you get the score to earn you a free game. Mine is set to 1.4 million. Very cool search light action. It's a real shooters game and plays very fast. trapping the ball for ball control is a must for this game.

[@Nizmo240sxFranks]

This is on of my childhood memories me and my dad use too play I have two machine I’m wanting too trade for this machine Williams flash and Williams laser ball

[@LyonsArcade]

Three good ones :)

[@aqacefan]

If I'm not mistaken the car on the back glass is a Lamborghini Countach, despite the lack of logos. And green is also an unlucky color for motorcycles.

[@LyonsArcade]

You know I've never seen a green motorcycle, I guess I know why now :)

[@Columbiastargazer]

I think I still have the "medallion" (a disc about the size of a DVD with art on one side) that came with a new machine and I won at the local pool hall's tournament 30 years or so ago

[@LyonsArcade]

When they made the plastic sets a lot of times there would be extra room on the sheet so they'd design something like that, to come with the machine like you said, that's pretty cool they had a contest to give it away, nice!

[@1949LA-ARCH]

Great video !

[@robertmason8341]

That was my favorite pinball. Maybe I missed it in your video, but I thought when you ran the red light it gave you multi-ball? Or was that when you had the cops in pursuit and shot it up the ramp to “get away” it started multi-ball which was 3 balls at once right?

[@LyonsArcade]

When you run the red light the cops get after you, then you run it again to start multiball (I think). I think we did it right at the end.

[@tonerotonero1375]

Nice. You miss the helicopter plastic on top of the shooter lane. I didn't know about the euro siren setting. I am French and all the machines I played had the US siren. I would be glad if you could change the setting and record what it sounds like. Great video as usual.

[@LyonsArcade]

Tonero unfortunately I already sold it, but the next one I get in I will record the Euro siren for you!

[@tonerotonero1375]

@@LyonsArcade merci ! I am rather glad to hear that this kind of machine doesn't stay long on sale and that people are still interested in these oldies.

[@piratetv1]

that song will always remind me of ghostbusters 2

[@mab4870]

Looking to buy one of these

[@LyonsArcade]

It’s a great game!

[@CrystalMcNair]

Oh man... @30:20 .... Now I want to watch GhostBusters....

[@LyonsArcade]

I forgot that was in that movie :)

[@douro20]

Apparently this was the first solid--state game to have auto-percentaging for replays. But Williams already had that feature in a pinball as far back as 1949! Who was the guy who always hid a cow in his game designs for Williams?

[@Sparky198025]

Wow! I just watched the entire video!! And I gotta know...HOW MUCH would it cost to take a machine and restore it like the one you did? Even if a few more issues were wrong, like a couple more multi connectors and the NV RAM, the battery(too keep the highscore), adding the 2 fuses to the rectifiers, plus the bumper coil(23-800) and to replace 44 bulbs with the 47 bulbs? Plus the new siren bulb motor? What would that all cost? I have a williams high speed I need to restored and if that's all that's wrong with it...what am I looking at spending? It lights up but doesn't play . .

[@LyonsArcade]

It kind of depends on what we run into, low end is about $400 and it might go up to $800 depending on parts cost , etc. If it needs all kinds of work, like it's really beat and needs a lot of new parts, new display, etc. it can go up over $1000, depends on how much new stuff you want on it.

[@Sparky198025]

@@LyonsArcade thank you so much for responding! Going to bring it in next week. I'll let you know what they say is wrong and the estimate they want to charge me.

[@Sparky198025]

I finally dropped it off for repair. The table is in pretty rough shape. But the table its self has missing paint, stickers, burn marks and looks like a clear coat is peeling in spots. The repair guy said he wouldn't be able to fix the aesthetics of the table but the gameplay will be fine like that. It it even possible to refurbish the table itself? Also is there a place to get replacement freeway stickers? One is like half torn off.

[@paulnguyen8910]

Mate, ya should've shaken the machine when your bonus is under 3K! I have done this many times as I went to anger mode since November 1990.

[@pinballdan]

Joe-Always upgrade to NVRAM and clip battery holder off...1 more mpu SAVED!!!!!!!!!! For life...

[@VentShop]

Another option for the batteries is to put a socket in and a remote battery pack or even a rechargeable battery pack and remove the diode. Even being a little higher than 5v is ok because a new set of AA batteries will run like 1.85V each so you are looking at a total of about 5.5v when they are new and dead they run like 1.1v or about 3.3 total. It is also possible to put a battery in the base and then setup a separate charge circuit for it and just run the power up to the head. Tons of different ways to do that, LOL. Personally I hate the coin cell batteries. Seems like they are always dead.

[@jamiemale27]

i noticed it was 3 aa 4.5v total and you replace it with a cr 3032.. 3v.. does it not care its 1.5 v short?

[@jamiemale27]

i paused it to write this i saw the answer few mins later ty

[@LyonsArcade]

No problem Jamie thank you for watching!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

If you're stealing a coil Don't wanna know about your crime spree... If you gotta make a quick getaway I will tell the cops I've seen nothing.

[@LyonsArcade]

That's my man!

[@issacehowardjr679]

I swear if you ever record at 4k, I'll have a heart attack. lol Some of those machines you repair are worth seeing the detail's on in 4k.

[@LyonsArcade]

The file sizes get so big at 4k I can't handle all the editing unfortunately. I'd have to pay somebody full time just to edit and upload videos, or only upload a video a month