This is the next-to-last machine Williams made under the Bally moniker and the first game made
to “reinvent” pinball in a last-ditch effort to save Williams from ceasing pinball manufacturing.
6,878 machines were made. George Gomez designed the new platform with Greg Freres and
John Youssi designing the art package. This is Star Wars; the last games from Williams were the
most technologically advanced games pinball has ever known. The incorporation of a reflecting
video monitor with interactive playfield video feedback is revolutionary. The top of the playfield is
mostly hidden from view except for a few selectively placed spots which light on occasion. This
machine consists of nine different modes which must be conquered to proceed to the ultimate
mode, that being the destruction of Mars. A very different game that sold well. However, Williams
pulled the plug on pinball and thereafter focused on slot machines.