Driving Range

Driving Range, a 1965 electro-mechanical pinball machine from Williams (model 308), is a single-player bat game from the mid-1960s. As with other bat games of the period, players would have used a mechanical bat mechanism rather than flippers to direct the ball, relying on relays, switches, and solenoids typical of EM construction.

Little detail survives about the specific rules, scoring layout, or artwork of Driving Range, and no designer or artist credits are documented. Its golf-suggestive name places it among the many sports-themed EM games Williams produced during this period.

While records on its gameplay specifics are sparse, Driving Range's place within Williams' mid-1960s EM output makes it a piece of interest for collectors and historians studying the bat-game format that was common before flippers became the industry standard.