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Monday, May 21, 2012

Hotel William

UPDATE:  No Gunners, No Fish Tales, No POTC - Currently the William has a Tron Legacy machine and a Terminator 2: Judgement Day .






The Pirates machine is $2 a credit or $3 for 2 and is 5 ball.  Fish Tales is $1 a go or $2 for 3 credits and is 3 ball.

Fish Tales is in pretty good condition. It's a good machine but can be pretty unforgiving. Miss a shot and there's a good chance the ball will roll back straight down the center.  The extra ball shot seems pretty hard to hit, enough so that I wondered if it was actually working or not.  Overall it is a fun, though challenging machine.

Pirates is a machine I was quite skeptical about at first but I've come to love it.  It's easy enough to get a good go at, lining up multiple multi balls is a good strategy, but it's deep enough that there's always another target to go for - I'm yet to kill Davy Jones for example.

The Pirates of the Caribbean machine seems to have become quite popular.  I've seen a few around lately (including one around the corner from The William at Bill and Toni's) and this isn't a bad thing as it's a reliably fun game.  The one here has a couple of issues that might take a little to get used to, but are also easy to exploit once you know how. 

The table seems to have a lean. A ball rolling back towards the flipper that may seem like its going between them will veer to the left flipper.  This can be a blessing, though that ball you thought was going to hit the right flipper that veers off and drops between the flippers can be frustrating.  The saving grace is the very very lenient tilt setting.  You can drag the machine about a foot either way before the tilt kicks in.

Another annoying quirk is the kick out of the left orbit onto the upper table doesn't always register.  The machine will kick it out when it does a ball search after a period of time, which can be a good chance to have a sip of beer, but it can break up the game.  Again though, this can be used to your advantage.  Once multiball is lit if you can flip a ball round the left orbit you can continue your multiball knowing you have a ball safely locked away till you lose the rest.

At any rate, these two machines make this pub well worth a visit.  Read on for the old review when the Guns and Roses machine was the only option here...



The William is located at 47 William st, East Sydney.  Its recently undergone a bit of a renovation, which rendered it pretty much sterile and devoid of any character until they dropped a Guns N' Roses pinball machine in the TAB room.


The pub does have some tables on chairs outside for an after work beer or two.  There's a pool table and a juke box, the TAB room has three automated TAB machines and large monitors to keep up with the odds.  Along with the Pinball machine there is also a large boxing machine which I've noticed popping up in a few places but never seen anyone play.  Yet, for all that, the new renovations make me think the whole place has been designed to be hosed out at the end of the night.

Anyway, on to the pinball machine.  Its $1 a credit or $2 for 3 credits.  3 balls, and she's in good nick.  Its not a bad machine with plenty of modes, a few different multi balls and plenty of G'N'F'R's tunes.  I believe it's a bit of a collectible and it's been a while since I've seen one available to play.  Gunners fans should love it, pinball fans enjoy it as well.





 So, while not my favourite pub I will be frequenting it a lot more now they have a good pinball machine installed.

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