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Arrow Head / IPD No. 97 / February 19, 1957 / 1 Player

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Manufacturer:

Williams Manufacturing Company (1944-1958) [Trade Name: Williams]

Date Of Manufacture:

February 19, 1957

Model Number:

185

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Serial Number Database:

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

Theme:

American West - Native Americans

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Passive bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (3), Gobble holes (3). Three gobble holes light alternately and reward more points when lit. One to five games are awarded instantly by building up the Arrow Head bonuses and scoring a lit gobble hole after various levels of bonus are achieved. There is no match feature and no game over relay: the flippers stay live after all balls are played. This game can award one million points at a single time, which is unusual for a game of this vintage.

Replay wheel maximum: 47

Sound: 2 bells.

Design by:

Harry Williams

Art by:

George Molentin

Notes:

The manufacturer’s original playfield drawing (not shown here) is dated 1/2/57 and has the signed initials HEW.

Two other EM games with a million-point award are Gottlieb's 1957 'Royal Flush' and Billares Cordoba's 'Ferry-Boat'.

The backglass artwork appears to have been inspired by the artwork of George Petty, as seen on a 1955 calendar, which is the earliest instance of this art for which we can find a date.

Two examples of this game pictured here each have four bumper caps, all are blue with white marbling, and blue skirts. Our manufacturer's flyer is a bit washed out but if the caps it shows are blue, we would expect them to appear darker in that image. The promotional photo shows colored caps and skirts that are lighter in color than the nearby passive bumpers and possibly are yellow. A third example, pictured here, has four red bumper caps with white marbling and two red and two yellow skirts. We have not confirmed the correct color used on production games.

Photos in:

Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F

Files:

1 MB

PDF

Promotional Photo - Large Size

[Williams Manufacturing Co.]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Overall 682x996 [Larry Wolfe]	Backglass 900x1131 [Larry Wolfe]	Playfield 900x1023 [Larry Wolfe]	Backglass 900x1291 [Larry Wolfe]	Flyer 1059x808
Inside Backbox 600x800	Promotional Photo 1200x1496 [Duncan Brown]	Cabinet - Front View 675x1200 [Wes Howe]	Playfield 1200x2133 [Wes Howe]	Cabinet - Right 1114x474 [Wes Howe]
Backglass 1200x1060 [Eric Kurland]	Playfield 1200x2133 [Eric Kurland]	Upper Playfield 1200x900 [Eric Kurland]	Playfield - Gobble Holes 1200x900 [Eric Kurland]	Playfield - Detail 1200x900 [Eric Kurland]
Illuminated Front View 1200x1677 [Eric Kurland]	Illuminated Full View 1200x1646 [Eric Kurland]	Inside Backbox 1200x1559 [Eric Kurland]

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