- credit
- Steve Kordek — Design
- credit
- Louis Raynaud — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Hanging Targets ×8
- gameplay_feature
- Spinning Posts
- gameplay_feature
- Stop Magnets ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Williams Electronics, Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 2841
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/2841f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2841/image-13.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Williams
- ipdb.model_number
- 394
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (4), Slingshots (4), Hanging targets (8), Stop magnets (2), Spinning post (1). Player presses button on lockdown bar to cause the center ball shooter, which does not oscillate, to propel the ball into play from the outhole up through the flipper gap. When either the sun target or moon target is hit, a magnet under the playfield freezes the ball in front of the hit target until bonus points are counted down.
Maximum displayed point score is 99,990 points per player.
On the backglass, the astrologers have "cufflinks" monogrammed with "N.C." and "S.K.", a probable reference to Norm Clark and Steve Kordek. Cufflinks with identical initials are also found on the backglass of Williams' 1966 '8 Ball'.
- ipdb.notes
- A version of this game without replay capability was made for New York as Williams' 1971 'Planets'. The production run quantity of 704 likely includes both Zodiac and Planets games, as we find no manufacturer production records specific to Planets.
Production Floor Records for Zodiac:
Production Start Date: Prior to Jul-7-1971
Production End Date: Nov-4-1971
Production Floor Quantity: 704
First ship date: Prior to Jul-7-1971
Last ship date: Dec-15-1971
Product History Record for Zodiac:
Quantity produced for USA/Canada: 525*
Quantity produced for export: 179*
Total quantity produced: 704*
Price to Distributor: $440.00
*These quantities may be sales estimates.
- ipdb_rating
- 6.4
- month
- 8
- player_count
- 2
- production_quantity
- 704
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Astrology
- year
- 1971