1983 · Williams
Joust
Known for Center spinner, Disappearing targets and Unlimited Balls. Full-field wall of red and orange fire and flame, black silhouetted rock and castle battlement shapes, grey stone castle walls and battlements and dark blue night-sky band behind the upper ramp.
- Year
- 1983
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 2
Known for
- Spinner
Center spinner
- Target
Disappearing targets
- Multiball
Unlimited Balls
On the playfield
Spinner 1
- Center spinner
Targets 2
- Disappearing targets
- Three-bank
Lanes 3
- Hunter rollovers rollovers
- Numbered rollovers rollovers
- Upper scoring lanes
How it plays
-
Multiballs 1
- Unlimited Balls
Made by
- Design
- Barry Oursler
- Art
- Constantino Mitchell
- Art
- Jeanine Mitchell
- Software
- Cary Kolker
Reference
Linked terms
- Center spinner also called spinner gates
- Hunter rollovers also called Hunter
- Upper scoring lanes also called upper lane
- Unlimited Balls also called Final Unlimited Balls
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- red
- orange
- blue
- black
Fingerprint: Joust: Huge rearing green dragon with wide bat wings printed across middle and echoed above, fire-orange flame background almost entirely covering playfield, knight in gold-blue armour on rearing white horse top-left and inverted, oversized pale-blue egg and teardrop gem shapes punctuate flames, EGG BONUS and multiplier banners, castle-wall ramp structure, medieval fantasy theme, fiery reds oranges blacks
The single most memorable element is a huge rearing green dragon with wide bat wings, printed across the middle of the playfield and echoed by a smaller copy above it. Close behind: a band of fire-orange flame background almost entirely covering the wood, so the field reads as one continuous blaze rather than a scene. A knight in gold-and-blue armour charging a rearing white horse is stamped in the top-left corner and repeated inverted at the head of the shot. Scattered oversized pale-blue egg and teardrop gem shapes punctuate the flames, with 'EGG BONUS' and 'EGG Multiplier' banners naming the egg theme. Two plain yellow rubber flippers and a yellow-and-black striped apron frame with red 7-segment windows anchor the bottom.
Setting
- Full-field wall of red and orange fire and flame
- Black silhouetted rock and castle battlement shapes
- Grey stone castle walls and battlements
- Dark blue night-sky band behind the upper ramp
Symbols
- Card-suit shaped bumpers
- Playing-card suit icons (spade and heart)
- Black star shapes
- Blue faceted jewels
- Pale-blue eggs
- Numbered round lamps 1 to 8
- Red 7-segment score displays
- Yellow-and-black hazard stripes
- Qr code sticker
- Coin-door instruction cards
Notable shapes
- Long arcing wire ramps on both outlanes
- Grey battlement-capped ramp house at top centre
- Large pale-blue egg domes left and right
- Irregular flame-edged artwork wrapping the slingshot inserts
- Yellow-and-black striped triangular apron corners
- Inverted score-panel band across the head of the image
Art motifs
- Wrapping flame background
- Airbrushed cartoon outlines
- Chivalric heraldry
- Blue-grey stone masonry
- Jewelled egg collection
Themes
- Medieval fantasy
- Knights and armour
- Dragons
- Fire and flame
- Jousting
- Eggs
- Treasure hunt
Title on it
- Joust
Text on it
- PLAYER 1
- PLAYER 2
- BALLS
- TIME
- GAME OVER
- High Score
- SINGLE PLAYER GAME
- PLAYER 1 INSTRUCTIONS
- JOUST
- EGG BONUS
- EGG Multiplier
- 30,000
- SPECIAL
- LOCKED
- TROJAN
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Creature | Large rearing green dragon with spread dark-green bat wings, yellow eye, open red mouth and pale teeth, straddling the middle of the playfield; a smaller version of the same dragon appears in the upper third |
| Man | Knight in gold-and-blue armour on a rearing white horse, printed top-left; the same motif appears inverted in the top band |
| Man | Armoured knight with sword and shield standing lower-centre, right of the large dragon, drawn in gold and blue |
| Animal | Several rearing orange-brown horses printed mid-left and mid-right among the rocks |
| Creature | Small white-and-yellow bird or rooster figure on a rock just left of the lower-centre knight |
| Other | Oversized pale-blue egg and teardrop gem shapes, plus dark blue faceted jewels, scattered as playfield plastics and printed decoration |
A tall portrait photograph of a fantasy-medieval pinball playfield seen through scratched, reflective glass, dominated by a fiery red and orange flame background over black and dark-blue rock. The centrepiece is a large rearing green dragon with spread bat wings, yellow eye and open red mouth, printed twice: once small in the upper third and once much larger straddling the middle. A knight in gold-and-blue armour on a rearing white horse appears at upper left and again inverted at the top, and a second armoured knight with a sword and shield stands lower-centre amid orange horses and boulders. Big pale-blue egg or gem ovals, blue teardrop jewels and dark star shapes are scattered across the field. Curved white banners read 'EGG Multiplier' on the left and 'EGG BONUS' low-centre above a row of eight white round lamps. '30,000' and 'SPECIAL' appear on the right. The lower apron carries red 7-segment display windows in a yellow-and-black striped frame, flanked by 'PLAYER 1', 'TIME' and 'BALLS'. At the very top an inverted score-panel strip shows 'PLAYER 2', 'BALLS' and 'TIME', apparently reflected in the glass. Two plain yellow flippers sit at the bottom.