Diner is a classic Williams System 11 pinball machine known for its superior sound design compared to contemporaries like Bad Cats. The game has been featured across multiple pinball media platforms and communities, including Pinball Arcade digital recreation. It's notable in competitive play for an exploitable tournament strategy involving timeout sequences, and has been documented in technical repair contexts for coil issues on blanking circuit chips. The machine remains actively traded in the collector market, with custom playfield versions available through groups like Rochester Pinball Collective.
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Williams 1990 classic designed by Mark Ritchie; coming to Pinball FX April 30
Pinball game featuring ramp-based lock sequences, left/right ramp strategy, dine time awards; Raymond placed second at IFPA 16 with 23 million vs Zach's 25 million
Stern machine featured in INDISC Open finals; suffered plastic jam in saucer requiring live repair from underneath; Eric Stone scored $8.5 million after repair (highest on game)
Modern game at INDISC with bounty; featured special code resetting diner letters on multiball
System 11 pinball by Mark Ritchie; sister table to Taxi; referenced in context of scoring balance in pinball design
Williams classic from taxi era; featured in Don's personal top-5 games segment as #5
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First game played in Open Finals; classic pinball machine with focus on right ramp accuracy and multiball strategy
Classic food-themed pinball game referenced as precedent for Food Truck's thematic appeal
Pinball machine; mentioned as potentially having issues (host uncertain if it was Diner or Ice Fever that had problems)
Pinball machine criticized by Scotty for repetitive order collection mechanics; Pizza Time designed as improvement by randomizing orders per-pizza
Pinball machine designed by Mark Ritchie
Classic pinball machine used as base platform for Cacciola's Lupin III conversion. Selected due to matching letter/number count on playfield.
Pinball machine in Bob's collection; listed among machines Bob owns
Pinball machine; Ralph's first game at Electric Bat tournament, placed first
Full-featured pinball game whose location performance was rivaled by Silver Slugger despite Diner's higher manufacturing cost
Classic pinball machine designed by Mark Ritchie
Classic Williams pre-DMD solid-state game speculated as potential candidate for future 2.0 remake
Pinball Arcade table, sequel to Taxi, featured as Table of the Week with praised tuning
Pinball machine with flashing/locking coil issue caused by bad socket on 748 blanking circuit chip; customer repair story demonstrating isolation testing.
Pinball machine with exploitable tournament strategy (letting time out repeatedly to build safe 500k point sequences); discussed as boring but interesting edge case.
Williams game that Pepe desires to acquire; Rochester Pinball Collective has custom playfield version available for sale
System 11 game referenced in comparisons; reviewers claim superior sound design to Bad Cats