1954 Williams COLORS woodrail pinball machine

A short video demonstrating gameplay of the 1954 Williams woodrail pinball machine Colors.

Colors is one of four Williams woodrails with the Star Feature (also included on Spitfire, Star Pool, and Peter Pan from 1954). This feature can be played with insertion of a second nickel (which seems to be somewhat similar to the 1954 Gottliebs with the Double feature) and is, in essence, a match feature for the 10,000s score for every ball played. How the Star Feature works: at the end of play of a ball, a “random” number between 00 and 90 lites up on the backbox (or two numbers lite up if no stars have yet been awarded and the number of replays awarded for five star awards is set to 100 and not 200). If the number matches the 10,000s score, the player is awarded a star (lites up on backbox). Two stars award 5 replays; three stars award 15; four stars award 50 replays; and five award 100 or 200 replays depending on the machine’s settings. The main ball gate has a switch in it that resets the Star Feature after each ball is played.

Ball one of the gameplay video features awarding of one star (match of 60 with the 10,000s score of 60,000). [I had hoped to record a game were I won two or more stars but those games don't happen too often!]

The machine has impulse flippers and two bagatelle fields on the bottom of the playfield—balls in gobble holes or that go through the lanes below flippers will kick a ball in one or both fields. The machine also includes a three digit replay stepper/counter and a knock off button on the bottom of the cabinet for removing replays (both common features on bingo machines).

Aside from replays won through the Star Feature, the machine also awards replays for certain scores and by special when lit rollovers and gobble holes that are lit after accomplishing particular goals (making all number 1, 2, or 3 lites). A replay is won at the end of the game with a score of 4,300,000.