Star Wars (Data East)

Star Wars is a pinball table released by Data East Pinball in 1992. Based on the original trilogy of Star Wars movies, this pinball revisits key characters and scenes from those films. John Borg was in the process of creating a layout for a table based on Jurassic Park, but when offered Star Wars by Joe Kamikow, adapted the layout, replacing a mechanical dinosaur with the Death Star.

The game begins with a skillshot where the player presses the plunger button to time shooting a fighter shown on the dot matrix display (DMD). The player attempts to start multiball by hitting the Death Star a number of times, or using the plunger handle to open it and hit a ball in it to start a mode where jackpots may be scored.

Other game features include spelling Star Wars with orbit or ramp shots, hitting the Sarlacc pit right scoop, which can also give Jabba the Hutt rewards. The force and dark side awards, and X-wing millions can be awarded from the left scoop. There are also hurry-ups involving C3PO, and the spinning R2D2.

With a production run of 10,400 machines this was Data East's most successful pinball game.