1993 · Williams
White Water
Known for Insanity Falls, Bigfoot Bluff, No Way Out and Disaster Drop. White-water river rapids, red-brown slot canyon walls and rushing foam spray.
- Year
- 1993
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Shot
Insanity Falls
- Shot
Bigfoot Bluff
- Shot
No Way Out
- Shot
Disaster Drop
- Ramp
Spine Chiller
- upper playfield
Upper playfield
- mini-wizard
Wet Willie's
- Multiball
Gold Rush
On the playfield
Extra level 1
- Upper playfield upper playfield
Ramp 1
- Spine Chiller
Orbits 2
- Boulder Garden
- Boomerang Bend
Shots 4
- Insanity Falls
- Bigfoot Bluff
- No Way Out
- Disaster Drop
Hole 1
- Lost Mine saucer
Targets 5
- Green lock targets
- Red standup targets
- Bigfoot Hotfoot targets
- River standups
- Extra ball target
Kickback 1
- Bounceback
Lane 1
- Secret Passage
Lights 1
- Rafts inserts
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Blonde, pink bikini top, purple shorts, standing on the yellow bow boards of the raft, holding a long yellow paddle, smiling at the viewer, left foreground
- man Shaggy long white hair, dark sunglasses, orange life vest, blue shorts, standing centre, arm raised holding a straw hat, open-mouthed grin
- man Green shirt, sunglasses, green cap, seated behind the blonde woman, gripping a black pole
- man White wide-brimmed hat, blue shirt, sunglasses, sitting mid raft
- man Orange shirt, white cap, holding a small camera, sitting right of centre
- child Boy in a red shirt sitting at the right side of the raft
Setting
- White-water river rapids
- Red-brown slot canyon walls
- Rushing foam spray
Text on it
- Williams
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
How it plays
-
Modes 8
- Man Overboard
- Advance Raft
- Spirit of the River
- 5X Playfield
- Light Extra Ball
- Bigfoot Hotfoot
- Camera Craze
- Boulder Bash
-
Multiballs 2
- Whirlpool Challenge
- Gold Rush
-
Goals 3
- Travelling Hazard
- River Class
- Gold Rush items
-
Awards 1
- Multi Millions
-
Wizard modes 2
- Wet Willie's mini-wizard
- Vacation Bonus
Made by
- Design
- Dennis Nordman
- Art
- John Youssi
- Mechanics
- Win Schilling
- Software
- Mike Boon
- Sound & Music
- Chris Granner
- Display animation
- Scott Slomiany
The cast
- Bigfoot
- Wet Willie
Reference
Linked terms
- Bigfoot Bluff also called Whirlpool
- Green lock targets also called Lock targets
- River standups also called RIVER
- Rafts also called Hazards
- Spirit of the River also called Mystery Canyon
- Camera Craze also called Camera
- River Class also called Class 6 River
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- yellow
- blue
- brown
- red
Fingerprint: Hand-painted cartoon map with yellow-and-ochre winding canyon bisecting vertically, brown rock ledges and black cross-hatched shading, clear plastic ramp and wire rail loop through upper-right quadrant, teardrop return lane sweeping down left edge, two round bumpers inside yellow rubber rings, tumbling brown logs illustrating rapid
The playfield art is a bird's-eye river map rather than a scene: a yellow-and-ochre winding canyon bisects the field vertically, with brown rock ledges and black cross-hatched shading giving it an illustrated map look. A clear plastic ramp and wire rail loop through the whole upper-right quadrant, with a second clear return lane sweeping down the left edge in a big teardrop. Near the lower centre two round bumpers sit inside yellow rubber rings, and just above them a cluster of tumbling brown logs and white spray illustrates a rapid. Bright yellow 'LANE CHANGE' arrow panels sit symmetrically at both lower corners, and a glowing orange round lamp sits dead centre between the flippers.
Setting
- Aerial map of a rocky river canyon
- Brown and tan layered cliff walls with black cross-hatched shading
- Yellow-ochre river channel running the length of the field
- Deep blue water pools with white foam flecks
- Green vegetation patches
- Bare tan rock plateaus in the upper left and upper right
Symbols
- Playing-card-style suit shapes in the lower playfield
- Yellow right-pointing and left-pointing arrow graphics on the lane change panels
- Black and gold diamond lattice border strip above the apron
- White foam and spray motifs
- Brown log shapes
- Red-capped flipper bats
- Yellow-rimmed round bumper rings
Notable shapes
- A long straight clear ramp and wireform track angling across the upper right quadrant
- A large teardrop-shaped clear return lane looping down the left side
- A big clear ball guide curving around the lower left in a hook shape
- A glowing orange round lamp dead centre between the flippers
- A yellow-bordered triangular star insert low centre
- An oval metal diverter and ball guide assembly in the upper right
Art motifs
- Hand-painted cartoon map with heavy black line outlines and cross-hatching
- Top-down perspective river course
- Wooded and rocky canyon terrain
- Glossy clear plastic ramps and wireform guides over flat painted art
Themes
- Whitewater rafting
- River canyon
- Outdoors adventure
- Cartoon map artwork
Text on it
- LANE CHANGE
- HOLD FLIPPER BUTTON FOR STATUS REPORT
- Williams
- Williams Manufacturing Company
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Game: White Water
- Level: 1 thru 6
- Serial Number: 2234293
- Manufactured: July 2000
- Total Production: 7,006
- FLIPPER
- TILT
- CENTER STANDUP
- SCORES
- Change This Game Is For
- 100,000 Score
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | Small cartoon whitewater rafters in a raft, painted in flat colour with heavy black outlines, positioned mid-upper left beside the rapid and again near the centre |
| Creature | Brown tumbling logs and a foaming white cascade, painted as scenery across the central rapid |
| Other | A painted green canoe with a paddler, angled diagonally on the left bank of the central river |
| Animal | Small painted fish and water birds scattered in the blue water sections |
| Other | A carved wooden post-and-rope river gate or arch motif painted on the lower centre apron area |
A full-view photograph of a river-rafting themed pinball playfield seen through its glass, lit warmly with heavy glare. The art is a hand-painted cartoon map: a wide yellow-and-ochre river canyon running top to bottom, tan and brown layered rock walls with black outline hatching on both sides, patches of deep blue water dotted with white foam flecks, and green scrub. Down the centre a whitewater rapid is filled with tumbling brown logs, a small foaming waterfall and white spray, with cartoon rafting figures and canoes scattered along the route. Physical hardware is dense: a tall clear plastic ramp and wireform track hugging the upper right, a second looping clear return lane and rail arcing down the left, three red-capped flippers at the lower centre, two yellow-bordered rubber-ringed round bumpers low-centre, an orange translucent rectangular light panel on the left, a yellow-and-red triangular star ramp insert, and clear plastic ball-guide walls sweeping around the lower left and right. The apron carries two white legend cards, a central script logo, and two yellow 'LANE CHANGE' arrow panels, with a strip of diamond-pattern trim above the apron.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- white
- red-brown
- yellow
Fingerprint: crowded white-water rafting party rendered as single action-packed painted tableau: eight grinning holidaymakers in sunglasses and life vests heaped into giant grey inflatable raft; blonde woman in pink bikini standing at yellow bow holding paddle; wild white-haired man in orange life vest hoisting straw hat overhead; bright yellow and orange cargo boxes and blue drum stacked on left; red-brown slot canyon, white foam
A crowded white-water rafting party rendered as a single action-packed painted tableau: eight or more grinning holidaymakers in sunglasses and life vests heaped into a giant grey inflatable raft, one blonde woman in a pink bikini standing front and centre on the yellow bow while holding a paddle, and a wild white-haired man in an orange life vest hoisting a straw hat above his head. Bright yellow and orange cargo boxes and a blue drum are stacked on the left of the raft, all of it framed by a red-brown slot canyon and a torrent of white foam filling the whole lower half. Small white-on-dark copyright print and a cursive artist signature are tucked into the bottom right corner over the foam.
Setting
- White-water river rapids
- Red-brown slot canyon walls
- Rushing foam spray
Symbols
- Yellow circular emblem with black w
- Painted orange life ring
- Yellow and orange cargo boxes
- Blue water drum
- Coiled rope
- Paddles
- Cans
- Yellow cross-hatch deck boards
Lettering
- White cursive script wordmark beside a small round yellow badge at top left; tiny white capital-letter copyright lines bottom right
Themes
- White-water rafting
- River expedition
- Holiday adventure
- Group of friends
- Outdoor sports
- Canyon rapids
Text on it
- Williams
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Blonde, pink bikini top, purple shorts, standing on the yellow bow boards of the raft, holding a long yellow paddle, smiling at the viewer, left foreground |
| Man | Shaggy long white hair, dark sunglasses, orange life vest, blue shorts, standing centre, arm raised holding a straw hat, open-mouthed grin |
| Man | Green shirt, sunglasses, green cap, seated behind the blonde woman, gripping a black pole |
| Man | White wide-brimmed hat, blue shirt, sunglasses, sitting mid raft |
| Man | Orange shirt, white cap, holding a small camera, sitting right of centre |
| Child | Boy in a red shirt sitting at the right side of the raft |
| Man | Yellow shirt, tan cap, at the right edge of the raft |
| Man | Blue jacket and backwards red cap, at the left of the raft holding a yellow paddle |
| Man | Shirtless with white sunglasses, arms spread wide at the left edge |
| Other | Further raft in the background right carrying several small figures, one standing with a pole |
A painted, airbrushed-style backglass showing a raft party careering down a foaming white-water river through a red-brown slot canyon. A huge grey inflatable raft with a rope-trimmed bow dominates the centre, carrying about eight people, and a second raft appears further back at the right. In the left foreground a blonde woman in a pink bikini top and purple shorts stands braced on the raft's yellow bow boards, gripping a long yellow paddle and smiling out at the viewer. Behind her sits a man in a green shirt, sunglasses and a green cap, holding a black pole. Standing at the centre, a shaggy white-haired man in sunglasses, an orange life vest and blue shorts grins and raises a straw hat overhead. Around them are a man in a white wide-brimmed hat and blue shirt, a man in an orange shirt and white cap holding a camera, a boy in red, a man in a yellow shirt and tan hat, and a man in a blue jacket and red cap at the left edge. Props include stacked yellow and orange cargo boxes with logos, a blue water drum, orange and yellow life rings, a coiled rope, paddles and cans. A painted round yellow emblem with a black W and the word Williams in white script sits top left. Dominant colours are deep blue and white foam, warm red-brown rock, yellow and orange gear, and flesh pink.