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Freefall / IPD No. 953 / January, 1981 / 4 Players

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Manufacturer:

Stern Electronics, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1977-1984) [Trade Name: Stern]

Date Of Manufacture:

January, 1981

Model Number:

134

MPU:

Stern M-200 MPU

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

1,300 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Fantasy

Specialty:

Widebody

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (8), Ball kickers (2), 5-bank drop targets (1), 3-bank drop targets (1), Spinning target (1), Captive ball walker, Dual inlanes. Center playfield kicker routes balls to elevated tramway which delivers them to accumulate in a captive ball walker until released to right-side kicker, sending balls back into play.

Design by:

Harry Williams

Art by:

Bob Timm

Notes:

Artist Bob Timm told us he did both the backglass and playfield for this game while he was at Ad Posters. He said cabinet art was always done at the cabinet maker and, as far as he knew, none of the game artists had anything to do with it. His signature can be seen on the backglass in the lower right corner and next to the lady's right foot.

On this game, Harry Williams reused the same upper playfield wireform design from another game he designed, Williams' 1954 'Skyway'.

Manufacturer data for Freefall:
Production Start Date: 1/20/81
Production End Date: 3/17/81
Quantity produced: 1300

Marketing Slogans:

"Everyone falls for FREEFALL"

Photos in:

Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) External Link

, page 148
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F
Pinball (Ciuffo)

, page 195

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/953 (External site)

ROMs:

7 KB

ZIP

Game ROMs

[Stern Electronics, Inc.]

11 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset

Documentation:

20 MB

PDF

English Manual (with schematics)

[Stern Pinball]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Flyer, Front 609x791	Flyer, Back 609x791	Backglass 931x826	Playfield 450x600 [Pascal Villedieu]	Front View 375x500 [Lee Paradis]
Ball View 800x600 [Lee Paradis]	Kicker to Elevated Tramway 500x375 [Lee Paradis]	Elevated Tramway to Ball Accumulator 475x356 [Lee Paradis]	Playfield - Detail 475x356 [Lee Paradis]	Backglass 1024x875 [Stefan Ordelman]
Upper Playfield 1024x768 [Stefan Ordelman]	Lower Playfield 1024x768 [Stefan Ordelman]	Under Playfield 1024x1365 [Stefan Ordelman]	Behind Backglass 1024x857 [Stefan Ordelman]	Inside Backbox 1024x768 [Stefan Ordelman]
Front View 705x1139 [Stefan Ordelman]	Playfield 1200x1729 [Mark Steinman]	Upper Playfield 1200x864 [Mark Steinman]	Middle Playfield 1200x1022 [Mark Steinman]	Lower Playfield 1200x845 [Mark Steinman]
Backglass 1024x898 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Playfield 960x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Backbox - Right 732x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Left 1600x680 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Ball Walker Mechanism 1200x797 [Stefan M�hring]

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