Williams Inferno on CL

Anyone know who got it?

I think there are only like 3 or 4 known of these, right? If so, it's something the community would want to keep track of, if at all possible.
 
Whoever got this and wants to triple their money. PM me.
 
Conversion with two wrong joysticks

Bill, why do you say conversion? The pictures weren't all that good to tell. Wish we could see the sides. What tip off for you to say conversion? As to the joysticks, I think you are right, doesn't an original have two red-ball and two Blaster type joysticks?

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Inferno - $1000
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condition: like new
make / manufacturer: Williams
model name / number: Inferno
Currently working great and was a blast to play with my children.
 
CL seller sold for $1k, you'd pay $3k, but the game itself is actually worth $8-10k easily.

Easily? I don't think so. There might be 2 or 3 buyers that might be willing to pay $8k for it. And that's depending on their finances at the time and their mood at the time. The owner finding that buyer or the buyer finding that owner, when there are that few people involved is not easy at all.
 
wrong cabinet, different cp overlay, Joust bezel. Mounting plate is joust style. you can clearly see all the wire lops not used to hold the original harness. Maybe you can say it was a test/proto cab based on where it was sold.


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Bill, why do you say conversion? The pictures weren't all that good to tell. Wish we could see the sides. What tip off for you to say conversion? As to the joysticks, I think you are right, doesn't an original have two red-ball and two Blaster type joysticks?

For archive:

Inferno - $1000
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condition: like new
make / manufacturer: Williams
model name / number: Inferno
Currently working great and was a blast to play with my children.
 
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wrong cabinet, different cp overlay, Joust bezel. Mounting plate is joust style. you can clearly see all the wire lops not used to hold the original harness. Maybe you can say it was a test/proto cab based on where it was sold.

More likely that it is a converted Joust 2 since they run on the same hardware and you can convert between them. Is it a Joust 2 cabinet with the monitor rotated?
 
More likely that it is a converted Joust 2 since they run on the same hardware and you can convert between them. Is it a Joust 2 cabinet with the monitor rotated?

Monitor can't be easily rotated, a different monitor glass, and joust 2 would have had almost perfect wiring harness for it. This has a doubled over board and the harness is is not placed correctly. Plus joust 2 would not have a mounting plate for the sound board.

joust 2 also has a over under coin door. This is a robotron style cab.
 
Also the cpo looks original and is not the production one. I haven't seen that panel before. Possible early copy of the game? Prototype?

I did say possible proto/test based on where its listed. not sure if inferno was supposed to be a kit, but since mystic marathon was, there is a good chance it was supposed to be one too.
 
I did say possible proto/test based on where its listed. not sure if inferno was supposed to be a kit, but since mystic marathon was, there is a good chance it was supposed to be one too.

I'm leaning towards that option. No idea on if it was a kit game or not, I'm not super familiar with Williams stuff. Wish I saw it earlier, Inferno is actually one of the couple Williams games I enjoy and wouldn't mind owning.
 
Well if nobody got it here it will probably reemerge on CL as a 60-1 with an LCD.
 
Being an owner of one of the few known, original Inferno cabinets out there, I agree with most of what mrbill is saying and that this was likely a conversion kit of some sort.

And yes, the boards in my upright are over/under and not stacked as they are in these pictures which I believe is the orientation for all of these later Williams games of this genre (Joust 2, Turkey Shoot, Mystic Marathon, and Inferno). I also have a Joust 2 which has the boards seated in this way as well.

Playing the game though with 2 ball-top joysticks would be a bit different...the original has Blaster-style joysticks for aiming and firing (the latter with a trigger) so with just a ball-top, you'd have to aim and fire simultaneously all of the time.

Playable? Yes, but just not the same.

Wonder who got it...the boards alone are probably worth well over a grand...

Shameless plug: Come to CAX 2017 if you want to try the original as mine will be there as it always is! :)

Jon
 
Anyone know who got it?

I think there are only like 3 or 4 known of these, right? If so, it's something the community would want to keep track of, if at all possible.

AFAIK, there are 7 known, complete uprights still "out there." I know of a complete unit that was found a little over a year ago in the Pittsburgh area I think it was. Last I communicated with the lucky "finder," he still hadn't restored it fully to working status, but it was complete other than one of the Blaster sticks (the plastic shell portion) being broken.

The 7 units would include mine :) .

Jon
 
I had a conversion game that I bought in the late 80's from Interspace Video out of Sacramento. It was installed in a Galaxy Ranger cabinet.

I no longer have it.
 
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