1996 · Williams
Junk Yard
Known for Wrecking Ball, Sewer, Toilet ramp and Junk. Stormy night sky with lightning, distant city skyline, junkyard of stacked cars, tyres and cranes and crane and gantry structures.
- Year
- 1996
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Toy
Wrecking Ball
- scoop
Sewer
- Ramp
Toilet ramp
- collection
Junk
- resource
Fireworks
- Wizard mode
Outer Space
- Mode
Time Machine
- Multiball
Main Multiball
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Wrecking Ball
Ramps 2
- Toilet ramp
- Bus ramp
Holes 2
- Crane shot
- Sewer scoop
Spinner 1
- Shooter lane spinner
Targets 3
- Toaster Gun target
- Car targets
- Lower standup banks
Lane 1
- Dog lane
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Middle-aged grinning man with round wire spectacles and dark hair, floating inside a clear glass space helmet with a metal collar, wearing a green shirt, arms outstretched, grinning broadly
- woman Brunette woman in a pale green sleeveless dress, recoiling with a frightened open-mouthed expression beside a toppled white trailer at the lower right
- creature Green crocodile or lizard sprawled across the red scrapyard floor near the centre bottom
- creature Small dark insect or spider-like shape on the red floor near the crocodile
- other Orange bulldozer with raised front blade, dented cab and a driver figure visible
- other Crushed white and blue car on its side, roof caved in
Setting
- Stormy night sky with lightning
- Distant city skyline
- Junkyard of stacked cars, tyres and cranes
- Crane and gantry structures
Text on it
- Junk Yard
- Williams
How it plays
-
Modes 15
- Adventure
- Radar Adventure
- The Great Jalopy Race
- The Great Toilet Adventure
- Air Tactical Combat
- Time Machine
- Mamushka
- Move Your Car
- Saucer Attack
- Knight Mission
- Payback Time
- Secret Mania
- Crane Hurry-Up
Video modes
- Run From Spike
- Save the Girl
-
Multiballs 3
- Main Multiball
- Crane Multiball
- Midnight Madness
-
Goals 10
- Junk collection
- Fireworks resource
- Toast resource
- Toaster Gun invention
- Jalopy invention
- Submerger invention
- Flying Machine invention
Other
- Magic Bus
- Window Shopping
- Recycle
-
Wizard modes 1
- Outer Space
Made by
- Design
- Barry Oursler
- Design & Software
- Dwight Sullivan
- Art
- Paul Barker
- Art
- Pat McMahon
- Art
- Linda Deal (aka Doane)
- Mechanics
- Zofia Bil
- Mechanics
- Brad Cornell
- Software
- Graham West
- Sound & Music
- Kurt Goebel
- Display animation
- Adam Rhine
- Display animation
- Brian Morris
The cast
- Spike
Reference
Linked terms
- Wrecking Ball also called Crane ball
- Crane shot also called Crane center lane also called Crane hole
- Sewer also called Sewer scoop also called Sewer sinkhole
- Toilet ramp also called Great Toilet ramp
- Bus ramp also called Magic Bus ramp
- Dog lane also called DOG scoop also called Dog shot
- Toaster Gun target also called Toaster Gun standup
- Lower standup banks also called lower three-bank
- Junk also called Collect Junk
- Radar Adventure also called Radar
- The Great Jalopy Race also called Jalopy Race
- The Great Toilet Adventure also called Great Toilet
- Recycle also called Ball Recycle
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- orange
- red
- brown
- blue
Fingerprint: Two-line orange marquee FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME CHICKEN CROCK, giant fanned hand playing cards ADVENTURE banner including OUTER SPACE card, blonde woman pink sunglasses stack tan stone blocks lower left, crowned red lion dog mask lower right, blue blueprint-grid speech balloons Come again Yes, large white arrows USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS
The two-line orange marquee at the top reading FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME / CHICKEN CROCK over a chaotic scrapyard collage. The centre is dominated by a giant fanned hand of playing cards with an ADVENTURE banner across it, including an OUTER SPACE card. Lower left has a blonde woman in pink sunglasses beside a stack of tan stone blocks, and lower right a crowned red lion or dog mask. A blue blueprint-grid section with speech balloons reading Come again?, Yes! and Yes! Everybody! sits between them. Two large white arrow decals reading USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS flank the lower playfield above a graffiti-style JUNKYARD logo.
Setting
- Cluttered scrapyard of twisted metal and junk
- Blue engineering blueprint grid
- Wooden and steel cabinet interior
- Dark smoky playfield glass
Symbols
- Playing cards
- Spades
- Hearts
- Diamonds
- Club
- Skull
- Crown
- Blueprint grid
- Speech balloons
- Arrow decals
- Stone blocks
Notable shapes
- Large white arrow-shaped instruction decals either side of the apron
- Giant fanned playing-card collage in the centre
- Blue blueprint-grid panel
- Dark round tunnel at upper left
- Triangular slingshots and a squared-off outlane at the lower corners
Art motifs
- Card suit pips scattered across the wood
- Graffiti tag lettering
- Collage of magazine and newspaper scraps
- Stencil and comic ink outlines
- Black marker signature on the apron metal
Themes
- Scrapyard
- Junk
- Comic book
- Adventure
- Outer space
Title on it
- Junkyard
Text on it
- FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME
- CHICKEN CROCK
- ADVENTURE
- DANGER
- CASH BEAR
- CASH CLOTH
- CASH BOX
- OUTER SPACE
- Come again?
- Yes!
- Yes! Everybody!
- USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS
- SHOOT AGAIN
- HOW TO PLAY JUNKYARD
- FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
- 1 PLAY
- 50c
- 5 PLAYS
- $2.00
- 3 Balls Per Play
- SEE BACKGLASS DISPLAY FOR REPLAY SCORE
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Large red-haired woman's face at upper right, pale skin, grinning, half hidden behind metal and a blue van cab |
| Other | Cartoon grinning skull and skeletal figure in the upper centre among twisted metal |
| Creature | Red lion or dog mask wearing a small crown inside an orange shield at lower right |
| Woman | Blonde woman with pink-tinted sunglasses at lower left, head and shoulders only |
| Robot | Small goggle-eyed mechanical contraption with a helmet and tubes in the blue blueprint section |
| Vehicle | Blue-grey van or truck cab at upper right |
A photographed pinball playfield under smoked glass, with the cabinet front and coin door below. The art is a dense comic-book scrapyard collage in orange, red, brown and blue. At the top a two-line orange banner reads FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME / CHICKEN CROCK above twisted metal, a grinning cartoon skull, a red-haired woman's face at the right edge and a blue-grey van cab at upper right. The centre is dominated by a large fanned hand of playing cards labelled ADVENTURE, with small panels reading DANGER, CASH BEAR, CASH CLOTH, CASH BOX and OUTER SPACE. Below, a blue blueprint-grid area holds a goggle-eyed mechanical contraption and speech balloons reading Come again?, Yes! and Yes! Everybody!. At lower left a blonde woman in pink sunglasses stands beside tan stone blocks; at lower right a crowned red lion or dog mask sits in an orange shield. Two white arrow decals read USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS, above a HOW TO PLAY JUNKYARD card, a graffiti-style JUNKYARD logo and a FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY price card. Two pale flippers point inward above a lit SHOOT AGAIN panel.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- orange
- black
- white
Fingerprint: Junk Yard with grinning man in glass space helmet floating above scrapheap; chrome reflecting sphere on mast upper left; jagged orange starburst title on wood-grain panel; wrecked orange bulldozer, crushed car, yellow lorry amid black tires; playing card faces on building wall; deep blue and orange dominates
The most memorable element is the grinning man in a round glass space helmet floating head-and-shoulders above the scrapheap with both arms thrown wide. A huge mirrored chrome sphere on a mast fills the upper left, reflecting an orange sunset that does not match the stormy blue sky. The title is mounted on a jagged orange starburst like a comic-book explosion. Down the lower left runs a wall of oversized playing-card faces, an odd motif for a junkyard scene. A cluster of five vehicles — an orange bulldozer with a raised blade, a crushed white car, a green saloon, a yellow flatbed lorry and a black hot rod — sits buried in a foreground heap of black tyres.
Setting
- Stormy night sky with lightning
- Distant city skyline
- Junkyard of stacked cars, tyres and cranes
- Crane and gantry structures
Symbols
- Playing-card faces stacked on a wall
- Black tyre stacks
- Parachute
- Chrome sphere
- Parabolic radio dish
- Crane boom
- Lightning bolts
Lettering
- Large chunky white block capitals with red drop shading, thick black outline, set on a jagged orange starburst
Themes
- Scrapyard
- Junk
- Waste
- Comedy accident
- Vehicles
- Crane
- City skyline
Title on it
- Junk yard
Text on it
- Junk Yard
- Williams
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Middle-aged grinning man with round wire spectacles and dark hair, floating inside a clear glass space helmet with a metal collar, wearing a green shirt, arms outstretched, grinning broadly |
| Woman | Brunette woman in a pale green sleeveless dress, recoiling with a frightened open-mouthed expression beside a toppled white trailer at the lower right |
| Creature | Green crocodile or lizard sprawled across the red scrapyard floor near the centre bottom |
| Creature | Small dark insect or spider-like shape on the red floor near the crocodile |
| Other | Orange bulldozer with raised front blade, dented cab and a driver figure visible |
| Other | Crushed white and blue car on its side, roof caved in |
| Other | Green 1950s saloon car |
| Other | Yellow open flatbed lorry loaded with scrap |
| Other | Black hot rod with exposed engine |
| Vehicle | Stack of old red, yellow and blue televisions behind the title logo |
A hand-painted, comic-realist backglass showing a scrapyard accident scene under a stormy blue sky. Upper right carries the title 'Junk Yard' in chunky block letters, white with red shading and a heavy black outline, sitting on a jagged orange-and-yellow starburst panel with a wood-grain border; a red and yellow jumble of old televisions is stacked behind it. Upper left shows a chrome reflecting sphere on a mast, a parachute, a red rocket-shaped marker on a pole, and a distant dark city skyline. At centre a grinning man with round spectacles floats in a glass space helmet, arms outstretched. Below him a wrecked orange bulldozer, a crushed white and blue car, a green saloon car, a yellow open lorry and a black hot rod sit amid stacks of black tyres. The lower left shows an illustrated panel of stacked playing-card faces on a building wall, while the lower right has a frightened brunette woman in a pale green dress recoiling beside a tipped white trailer. Dominant colours are deep blue, orange, black and white.