High Speed is a 1986 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics. This game was based on Ritchie's real-life police chase inside a 1979 Porsche 928.
High Speed was one of the games (along with 1986's Pin*Bot and 1984's Space Shuttle) that helped revitalized the pinball industry, which had become stagnant due in part to the North American video game crash of 1983.
During its design, High Speed was jokingly called "H...
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High Speed is a 1986 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics. This game was based on Ritchie's real-life police chase inside a 1979 Porsche 928.
High Speed was one of the games (along with 1986's Pin*Bot and 1984's Space Shuttle) that helped revitalized the pinball industry, which had become stagnant due in part to the North American video game crash of 1983.
During its design, High Speed was jokingly called "High Cost" by some rival Williams designers due to its then-high production cost. The advances in the mechanical design that went into High Speed, coupled with the machine's popularity, led to many machines being kept in service much longer than was previously the norm. The play surfaces of the machine were not initially given as much attention, leading to many High Speed machines seeing service to this day in extremely worn condition. Williams rapidly addressed this issue by making mylar playfield covers available and later adding hard clear...
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