Gold Mine

Gold Mine, produced by Williams Electronics Games starting November 9, 1987 (with 1,200 units confirmed built), is not actually a pinball machine -- it is a bowling-themed arcade game built using Williams' System 11B pinball hardware and electronics, supporting up to six players. IPDB lists it for clarification purposes precisely because it is easily mistaken for a pinball title given its shared hardware platform.

As a bowling game, Gold Mine's objective centers on knocking down pins rather than pinball-style flipper play, with the underlying System 11B board (an M6808 CPU running at 1MHz with a DAC sound processor) driving the scoring, sound, and any playfield animation. Because it repurposes pinball-industry hardware for a different style of game, it stands as an unusual crossover entry in Williams' catalog from the mid-to-late 1980s.

Beyond its production run and technical specifications, few further design details are documented. Its chief interest to collectors and historians lies in the way it illustrates how manufacturers like Williams reused electronic pinball platforms for other coin-operated amusement formats.