The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database or IPSND collects serial numbers of pinball machines and publishes a database of these on the Internet. Our goal is to make available a registration of all pinball machines in existence and allow tools for slicing, dicing and visualization of the data.

Games: 6,703  Serials: 70,540  Visitors: 81,554,498  Members: 5,789  Photos: 45,951  Lat/Lng: 39,209  Masks: 70,540(1,052.36%)  Traits: 578  Nudges: 233,011  Backglasses: 1,865
  Most Serials: Twilight Zone(1,351)  Most Submissions: Dennis Braun(6,157)  Most Points: Dennis Braun(45,844)  Highest Quality: The Knight(17.00)  Most Nudges: pinballservice-nl(29,881)
Red & Ted's Road Show - IPSND/IPDB No. 1972 - October 1994
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Manufacturer: Williams Electronic Games, Inc., a subsidiary of WMS Inc.
Players: 4
MPU: Williams WPC Security (WPC-S)
Production Run: 6,259
Game Type: Solid State Electronic (SS)
Model: 50024
Submissions: 338 serials of 6,259 (5.40%)
Coverage help:

Coverage is a mathematical interpretation of the serial numbers that have been submitted so far. The term 'coverage' relates to the amount of the production run that has been 'covered' in the given submissions.

There are two coverage methods shown, each has a different approach of calculating an guess on the number of games produced by analysing the currently submitted serial numbers.

Linear: Linear coverage simply looks at the highest serial number and subtracts from it the smallest serial number to estimate the number of games produced. For some games, this works fine because the serial numbers were sequential and without gaps (Early Bally, Early Stern, etc). However, this approach starts to fail quickly for games that serial numbers are part of a bigger numbering scheme (Williams pre 1984, Current Stern) or that intentially had gaps/skips in the numbering sequence(Gottlieb post 1960). If you see a linear coverage number that is higher than the known production run, it is probably not the best way to look at the serial range and you should look at the clustered approach below.

Clustered: Clustered coverage assumes that there are gaps/skips in the serial sequence for a game. It groups the serial numbers together based upon how close they are to the next serial number in the sequence. If they fall within a certain threshold then the SerialBot assumes that there are valid serial numbers between the two. If they are far enough apart, then the SerialBot assumes this is a gap. Once all the gaps and groups are determined, it sums up all the linear ranges in each group. This way, if a sample run of games started at 15,000-15,100 and the production games started at 17,000 onwards, it would assume that the serial numbers between 15,100-17,000 were a gap an are not counted. Using this method, as more serial numbers are submitted the gap analysis will get more accurate.

53,019 (847.08%) linear / 6,913(110.45%) in 3 clusters 312 wide.
Cluster Serial Number SerialBot Submitted By Country Game Part

Submit a new Game Trait

The following traits help

Game Traits are properties for an individual game that you would like to see tracked along with the other information gathered for a serial number submission. Some examples of existing traits are... Joust: Black or Blue bottom Arch, Black Knight: Faceted Inserts or Normal Inserts, Twilight Zone: 3rd Magnet Installed or not.

have been submitted for this game...

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Cluster Serial Number Country

This section lists any known game part serials that happen to match this game's serial mask (if defined). What this can tell you is if a game has any orphaned parts that might exist in other machines. This generally applies to CPU/MPU boards, Driver Boards, Display boards etc that are easily moved from game to game. Repair shops and distributors often robbed parts from other 'scrap' games laying around in a pinch if they were not able to fix the original part or of the original part was damaged beyond repair. If serials start showing up in the database as 'game parts', there is potentially a good chance that that game has been parted out completely, which is unfortunate. It is becoming more and more common for people to part out games and sell them on ebay simply because the seller can often make more money that way.... Please do not sacrifice complete games for money!!!

SerialBotSerial NumberTypeSubmitted ByCountryDetails
61205 50224100353 Display/Driver Fun House Germany flag Germany
76006 50224100627 Display/Driver Alexander Visotin Australia flag Australia
69203 50224100627 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
64689 50224100649 Sound Board Fun House Germany flag Germany
58732 50224101483 Display/Driver Fun House Germany flag Germany
50300 50224101640 MPU/CPU Fun House United States flag United States
60611 50224103806 Display/Driver Fun House Germany flag Germany
64279 50324103754 Flipper Board Fun House Germany flag Germany
58665 50424100593 Display/Driver Fun House Netherlands flag Netherlands
24358 50424101698 Display/Driver pinballservice-nl Netherlands flag Netherlands
65197 50424103180 Display/Driver Fun House Czech Republic flag Czech Republic
76348 50424103464 Solenoid Driver Alexander Visotin Australia flag Australia
66726 51024100583 MPU/CPU Clive Pedersen United Kingdom flag United Kingdom
65568 51024101103 Display/Driver Clive Pedersen United Kingdom flag United Kingdom
68008 51024101435 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
66519 51024104092 Sound Board Clive Pedersen United Kingdom flag United Kingdom
26942 51024105000 Flipper Board Antti Peltonen Finland flag Finland
29150 51024105006 Display/Driver Antti Peltonen Finland flag Finland
54544 51024105192 MPU/CPU Rod McLarge United States flag United States
58884 51324101832 Display/Driver Fun House Netherlands flag Netherlands
80636 51424100139 Flipper Board Fun House Italy flag Italy
76465 51424100682 Flipper Board Fun House Italy flag Italy
76351 51424100682 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
60452 51424100926 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
49401 51424100966 Display/Driver Fun House Korea, Democratic People's Republic of flag Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
76470 51424100985 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
76352 51424100985 MPU/CPU Fun House Italy flag Italy
76001 51424100985 Solenoid Driver Alexander Visotin Australia flag Australia
64747 51424100997 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
80658 51424101026 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
66644 51424101026 MPU/CPU Fun House Italy flag Italy
56506 51424101058 Coin Door Dennis Braun United States flag United States
51937 51424102077 Display/Driver Fun House United States flag United States
51212 51424103018 Flipper Board Fun House Germany flag Germany
52246 51424103092 Display/Driver Rod McLarge United States flag United States
59429 51824104431 Flipper Board Fun House Netherlands flag Netherlands
64702 52024105195 Display/Driver Fun House Germany flag Germany
67304 52024105442 MPU/CPU Dennis Braun United States flag United States
79095 52024105570 Flipper Board Fun House Italy flag Italy
80057 52224100232 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
65234 52224100731 Display/Driver Fun House Slovenia flag Slovenia
50226 52224100753 Flipper Board Fun House Germany flag Germany
32286 52224100787 MPU/CPU Rod McLarge United States flag United States
61593 52224101100 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
76401 52224101523 Flipper Board Fun House Italy flag Italy
73669 52224101523 Display/Driver Fun House Italy flag Italy
79205 52224102290 Display/Driver Fun House Netherlands flag Netherlands
51950 52224102469 Flipper Board Fun House Germany flag Germany
61427 52224102745 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
47331 52224104351 Display/Driver Rod McLarge United States flag United States
61615 52524105209 Display/Driver Fun House Netherlands flag Netherlands
49400 52824101288 Display/Driver Fun House Korea, Democratic People's Republic of flag Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
27830 53324100194 Display/Driver Pistol Pete United States flag United States
63646 53324100293 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
80620 53324100525 Coin Door Fun House Italy flag Italy
37931 53324103486 Display/Driver Rod McLarge United States flag United States
65221 53324103550 MPU/CPU Fun House United States flag United States
60988 53324103763 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
71935 53324103968 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
8616 53324104161 Other/Unknown Bill Ung United States flag United States
68546 53324104262 MPU/CPU Dennis Braun United States flag United States
49381 53324104303 Power Supply Dennis Braun United States flag United States
58083 53324104726 Display/Driver Fun House United States flag United States
30682 53324105240 Display/Driver John Vorwerk United States flag United States
27304 53324105240 Display/Driver John Vorwerk United States flag United States
62278 53324105528 Display/Driver Fun House United States flag United States
71780 53324105662 Display/Driver CARETTE FLORENT France flag France
77701 53324105740 Display/Driver Alexander Visotin Australia flag Australia
36092 53324105764 Other/Unknown Felix United States flag United States
80306 53324105765 Coin Door Rene Gruber United States flag United States
42079 53324105771 Display/Driver Rod McLarge United States flag United States
60673 53324105833 Sound Board Fun House Germany flag Germany
59126 53324105927 Display/Driver Dennis Braun United States flag United States
56467 53324106084 Flipper Board Dennis Braun United States flag United States
24689 53624100024 Sound Board Carlos Regis Brazil flag Brazil

This section lists any known information about how to physically find serial numbers on games created by this manufacturer. For all manufacturer tips, please visit the Serial Tips Page . (Please do not post serial numbers here on this form.)

Posted 1/11/2007 11:54:45 PM by Bill Ung

Newer Williams and Williams/Bally games have cute little stickers everywhere. This began with System 9 games (as far as I know) and include game ID number information, as well as the serial number. There are two styles:

  • The blue/grey and white stickers ran through the Hurricane era. These include the official game ID number (ie: 541 or 50018), separated from the actual serial number by a few spaces. Early games, till about the end of 1986, had five-digit serial numbers. Since then, serial number have always been six digits.
  • The white stickers include encoded game ID numbers. Well, the ID numbers aren't identical to the one you'll find in the ROM, but it DOES match the game ID number listed on the back of the machine. The number may change based on country. This is an item still being debated somewhat.

Overall, you'll find these stickers on the fronts of the cabinets, on top of the head, on the back of the cabinet (along with an encoded manufacturing date), insi

Posted 4/28/2008 2:40:04 PM by Jim West
Pinball2000 machines have two parts each with their own serial number. The base serial number is for the playfield cabinet. This serial number is for the top unit of the pinball.
Posted 12/20/2008 10:07:35 PM by MARK SPENCER
OPEN COIN DOOR, LOOK TO RIGHT , MFG STICKER SHOULD BE ON SIDE.
Posted 2/23/2009 9:24:15 PM by Richard Harvey
Game Date Stamp for BK2K under backbox with head down.
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This game has the following serial number formats defined in the database. As serial numbers are sumbitted, trends are recognized and defined or information about a serial number format is collected through historical information.

TypeExamplesRegExMaskLowerLimitUpperLimitAutoAssignable
Production Game 50224106239, 51024104736, 51024105232 ^(5[0-9][0-9]24)(?<sortdata>[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ True
International Game 53624I100004, 53324I153022, 53324I106709 ^(5[0-9][0-9]24)(I)(?<sortdata>[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ True
Experimental Game 53324X153022, 53324X106709, 53324X106565 ^(5[0-9][0-9]24)(X)(?<sortdata>[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ True


The Serial Bot Summary information here gives a detailed explanation of the Serial Bot analysis for this specific game. The theory behind the Serial Bot is this...

Every game has many many serial number submissions, the goal of the IPSND is not to guarantee that *all* information is 100% correct but that over time, the system should automatically devalue inaccurate submissions while increasing the value of correct submissions.

You may click on the SerialBot score of any submission to see how it was calculated.

SerialBot Color Codes:
- Not Validated The serial number submission has not yet been validated by the submitter via email.
- Unknown There is no known information on the serial number format for this game yet. As more submissions are received we can start to make a best guess on the serial number format.
- Good If a serial does not fail any of the tests for a status of Warning or Bad, then it is good.
- Suspect A serial will have a suspect status if the format is technically correct but there is something wrong with the data. Examples might be that the number might be too high or low for the known range of serials for this game.
- Bad If a game has a serial number definition mask defined for it, then a serial may be marked as 'bad' if the number does not validate agains the mask. Masks are created for games by looking at known serial number formats and consist of a regular expression to define the format of a game serial.

SerialBot Scores:
1 Point Awarded if the serial number has a game assigned to it. This autoatically makes submissions with a known game more valuable than submissions without a known game.
1 Point Awarded if the serial number has been 'verified' by the submitter. A submission is 'verifed' if the submitter clicks on the link in the email sent to them for each submission. The basis for this rule is that submissions by people that do not take the time to respond to the email might be entering garbage data and/or giving fake email addresses. However, it is common for 'verification' emails to get stuck in spam filters etc, so, members may have 'verification' emails re-sent at any time.
1 Point Awarded if the submitted serial number matches one of the predefined serial number masks for this game.
1 Point Awarded if the serial number was marked as 'Physically Viewed' during the submission process. This is an interesting distinction as there are many times that serial numbers are submitted off owners lists, Ebay auction, etc. While these serial numbers are valuable, they may also be innacurate. In comparison, Physically Viewed serial number submissions are numbers that the submitter has actually been in front of the machine reading the number and then submitting it. Since it is more likely to get a good visual from a physically viewed machine, this gains an extra point.
1 Point If a photo is uploaded with the serial number submission. The submission automatically gains an additional point. Be aware however that this opens the submission up to 'Nudges' by members where even more points can be added or subtracted based upon the quality and accuracy of the photo.
-3 to +3 Points Members can 'Nudge' every sumitted photo once and give it an extra boost of 1 point or take away 1 point depending if the photo matches the submitted serial number. While any number of members may nudge a serial, the nudging can only affect the score by +/- 3 points in either direction.

The following map shows the locations of all serial numbers that were submitted with a geolocation...