Answering your pinball questions – Williams Aztec Q&A

From Technology Connections.

Link to the IPDB page where you can get the schematic:
https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=119

The main channel pinball vid: (part 1)

00:00 intro
00:40 How do you actually play pinball successfully?
07:11 The game’s difficulty settings
08:35 Ball saves and high scores
10:00 What happens when you max out the score?
11:36 What if you add quarters at the wrong time?
14:11 What if you add five quarters?
16:23 Cheating with magnets
18:00 Can the machine do two things at once?
22:45 All about flippers
29:32 What if the machine is unplugged mid-game?
32:52 The machine has a bug with a funny fix
35:10 Power consumption
37:21 Why/how do some lights flash?
39:58 How much did the machine cost new?
41:20 How the machines were mass-produced
44:50 My on-location story (when I had it at a restaurant)
48:40 My modifications for on-location duty
51:59 How do you set these to free play?
53:07 The ways these machine break (and what’s wrong with this one)
57:50 Adjusting switches
1:00:46 Why are there so many switches? Why not share them?
1:02:58 Bundle wires – fire hazard?
1:05:17 How many times have I been zap?
1:06:47 Transformer high-tap