Banzai Run
The game itself is centered on the 1988 banzai run supercross race on the notorious banzai hill track.
Banzai run. I can confirm that banzai run had 3 balls although it only ever needed 2. Banzai run is a physical pinball table designed by pat lawlor and larry demar with artwork by mark sprenger. Wms 1985 2000 released 85 different machines in our database under this trade name starting in 1985. Larry demar provided these comments.
It has a multi playfield design in which the player can play a vertical game on the machine s backglass in addition to the main playfield. 1h 28min action a highway patrolman goes after a ring of hit and run drivers known as banzai runners who have fast expensive cars and stage illegal dangerous high speed races on the freeways at night. Wms 1985 2000 in 1988. The above intro text acts a bit like a wiki and can be edited by all pinside members including you.
Williams electronic games inc. Banzai run is a pinball machine produced by williams in 1988 and the first machine designed by pat lawlor. This allowed banzai run to play sounds when the flipper buttons are pressed in attract mode where flippers are not activated.