ABOUT
This was the first Widebody game from Stern, although the playfield design was much narrower than the standard Widebody pinballs of the period. The typical playfield of such a game was almost 29" wide. This was only 24".
It was also the first electronic game to use 7-digit score displays. To advertise this, all four score displays simultaneously animate the numbers "1234567" during Game Over mode, followed by flashing "7777777" for three seconds, repeating it again after displaying high scores. There are no added sounds during this animation.
According to an article in Amusement Review (Jan/Feb 1980, page 6), Stern was "prototyping models with both the traditional and a new plastic playfield." We have not seen the plastic playfield for this game, if any still exist.
Manufacturer data for Big Game:
Production Start Date: 3/24/80
Production End Date: 6/18/80
Quantity produced: 2713
IMAGES
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Pinside ID41
Manufactured ByStern Electronics
DateMarch 1980
TypeSS
IPDB ID249
Players4
HIGH SCORES
PINTIPS
Complete BIG at top lanes to light spinner to the right of BIGGAME Lane spinner.
Hit far left spinner repeatedly. Try to complete lanes at top. A weird type of post pass is doable to get ball to right flipper.
Switch hits like pop bumpers and center star rollover move the lit bingo card. The X bingo card lights the far left spinner for 1000 a shot.