- credit
- Norm Clark — Design
- credit
- Christian Marche — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×3
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Williams Electronics, Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 6497
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-10.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6497/image-11.png"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Williams
- ipdb.model_number
- 446
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (3), Kick-out holes (2). End-of-ball bonus. Tic-tac-toe matrix in center playfield is lit from underneath.
- ipdb.notes
- The 4-player version of this game is Williams' 1973 'OXO'.
The available manufacturer's documentation for this game in our Files section is dated from Oct-31-1973 to Dec-13-1973. According to Williams Daily Production Logs, funding was approved for a quantity of 98 sample units to be made of this 2-player version. It first appeared on the Production Log dated Oct-3-1973 and last appeared on the Log dated Dec-14-1973, showing none produced. We don't know why it did not go into production.
Curiously, on the following day's Log, it was replaced with a proposed 98 sample units of Williams' 1974 'Super-Flite', also a 2-player and which did proceed into production. Perhaps that is a coincidence, but we might have assumed that this was evidence of a simple rename of the project if it were not for the actual game pictured in this listing with a theme more befitting of the name 'Triple X' than an aircraft theme.
We are aware of only the example pictured here, likely a prototype. Reportedly, it has no serial number and has poor quality soldering, not assembly-line quality. We don't know when it was made in relation to its appearance on the Daily Production Logs.
- player_count
- 2
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Tic-tac-toe