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Smart Set / IPD No. 2215 / June 12, 1969 / 4 Players

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Average Fun Rating:

6.9/10 (7 ratings/5 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]

Manufacturer:

Williams Electronics, Incorporated (1967-1985) [Trade Name: Williams]

Date Of Manufacture:

June 12, 1969

Model Number:

363

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Production:

4,500 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

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

Theme:

Boating - Recreation - Affluence

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (6), Kick-out holes (3), Center up-post, Right outlane ball return gate.

Maximum displayed point score is 9,999 points per player.

Replay wheel maximum is 37 replays.

Sound: 2 bells, knocker.

Design by:

Norm Clark

Art by:

Christian Marche

Notes:

The Engineering Sample game pictured in this listing has no serial number on the cabinet. Cabinets used at the engineering stage are typically ones available from preceding production runs and the artwork would easily show this. However, we could not identify an earlier game having this Sample cabinet artwork. Instead, we found a game, Williams' 1969 'Expo', made a few months after 'Smart Set' that had this cabinet art design but with different colors. The Sample playfield uses a pink color in the outlanes and in the area of the arrow inserts, as well as inside the helm (ship's steering wheel). This pink color was changed to red sometime during production. The wheel spokes (inside the circle) were drawn as if the outer half of each is made of wood and the inner half is a black line. Sometime during production, all the spokes were changed to be entirely black lines.

The game shown in the manufacturer's flyer also shows the pink color and wood spokes. This game shows the cabinet production colors, and the lower cabinet shows the green wave is above the blue wave. In all production games that we have seen, the blue and green colors are reversed in the lower cabinet from what is shown in this flyer.

Also pictured here is an example located in South Africa that we have marked as Later Production by virtue of its higher serial number 50774. The playfield pink has been replaced with red and the wheel spokes are fully black. Its lower cabinet colors are reversed from the flyer. The backbox stepper unit inexplicably does not have its bell and clapper. However, the notable difference is that its two bottom standup targets are marked 'Down Post' while the two middle targets are marked 'Up Post'. This is opposite of all other examples shown here. We have seen only one other Smart Set having this target arrangement for its Up-Post feature. This arrangement is not supported by the game manual or by the schematic that we have in this listing. If anyone has a manual or a schematic that supports this arrangement, please contact us.

Photos in:

Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) External Link

, page 66
Pinball An Illustrated History External Link

, page 52
Pinball! (Sharpe) page 80
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z

Documentation:

15 MB

PDF

English Manual (for games with lower targets marked "Up Post")

[Williams Electronics, Inc.]

1 MB

PDF

Schematic Diagram (continuous; for games with lower targets marked "Up Post")

[Williams Electronics, Inc.]

Files:

108 KB

ZIP

Reproduction Score and Instruction Cards

[Inkochnito]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Backglass 540x437	Engineering Sample - Backglass 419x435	Playfield 362x538	Flyer 827x1093	Playfield 692x863 [Riffhard]
German Ad* 1024x1449 [Christian Jacobs]	Cabinet - Left 1024x768	Cabinet - Right 1024x791	Front View 592x1170	Inside Backbox 800x600 [Charles Lee]
Playfield 640x480	Upper Playfield 640x480	Middle Playfield 640x480	Middle Playfield 640x480	Lower Playfield 640x480
Engineering Sample - Backglass 536x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Playfield* 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Upper Playfield 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Middle Playfield* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Playfield - Detail* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]
Engineering Sample - Backbox - Left 425x623 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Full View 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - No Serial Number* 640x396 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Backglass - Reverse 487x462 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Behind Backglass 524x466 [Tom Perzentka]
Engineering Sample - Behind Backglass - Detail 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Behind Backglass - Detail 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Behind Backglass - Detail 603x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Behind Backglass - Detail 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]
Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox - Detail* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox - Detail 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox - Detail* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox - Detail* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]
Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox - Detail* 333x640 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Backbox - Detail* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Under Playfield* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Under Playfield - Detail* 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Under Playfield - Detail* 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]
Engineering Sample - Under Playfield - Detail* 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Under Playfield - Detail 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Under Upper Playfield 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Cabinet 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Cabinet 480x640 [Tom Perzentka]
Engineering Sample - Inside Cabinet - Detail* 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Engineering Sample - Inside Cabinet - Detail 640x480 [Tom Perzentka]	Later Production Backglass* 932x787 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production Playfield* 1200x1800 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production - Apron Removed* 1200x800 [Hendrik Myburgh]
Later Production Cabinet - Left* 1031x783 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production Cabinet - Front* 1086x800 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production - Serial Number* 1200x800 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production - Inside Backbox* 1200x800 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production - Under Playfield* 1128x1800 [Hendrik Myburgh]
Later Production - Inside Cabinet* 1200x1800 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production - Serial Number Tag* 1200x800 [Hendrik Myburgh]	Later Production - Serial Number Repetition* 1024x683 [Hendrik Myburgh]

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