Adrian's Guide to Indiana Jones the Pinball Adventure
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Version 2.3 

This rulesheet has been compiled and is maintained by me (Adrian) with a substantial
amount of input from a lot of r.g.p readers and is kept on the pinball archive at
rahul.net. If you find anything that is incorrect or missing, mail me and I'll make 
an effort to include it. 

Disclaimer: The usual; Indiana Jones the Pinball Adventure is surely a a trademark of
Williams Electronic Games Inc., and is licenced from Lucasfilm. Multi-Ball is also a
Williams trademark. 

Preliminary Notes: 
The machine I play, and consequently what this sheet is largely based on, is running 
L-6 ROM's which is the latest revision I've heard of. There are a lot of differences
between the various revisions which suggests that the initial P-x ROMs were riddled 
with bugs. Wherever possible I have tried to list the differences in the software, but
 I doubt I know them all so don't be surprised if your mileage varies from what is 
written below. 

As well as the software differences, it should also be noted that nearly everything is
operator settable making it almost impossible to compile definitive rules although I 
understand that some of these settings have disappeared in later ROMs. 

Although game play is fairly straight forward, there is a lot to be uncovered in a 
prolonged game. I doubt you would be able to say you had got everything until you had 
at least 3B points racked up. 

 

Playfield Layout
Note that this is a widebody machine of the same proportions as The Twilight Zone. I 
will only state briefly what is there for now, more detail will be contained in the 
description of play. Starting from the left flipper and going anti-clockwise things on 
the playfield are as follows: 

  

Left Inlane/Outlane 
The inlane lights Hand of Fate when lit and Special can be scored from the outlane when 
lit. As is common with most current machines the outlane can be adjusted but nowhere near 
as far as on TZ. 

A-D-V Targets 
A group of three stand up targets - the first of three such groups which spell out the 
word ADVENTURE. 

Left Orbit 
Depending on the mode the player is in, a shot around here will either continue around and 
feed back to the right flipper, or be stopped by a gate at the top of the playfield. 

Mode Saucer 
Just to the right of the orbit is a short (2") tunnel with a saucer at the end. This is 
where Modes, the Hand of Fate and Extra Ball are collected when lit. 

ADVENTURE Playfield 
The Indiana Jones equivalent of TZ's Battle the Power, this is a raised section of playfield
which can be tilted left or right by the flippers to guide the ball over some of the 8 rollovers 
and collect The Pit or Extra Ball. It takes at least two shots to the upper playfield to score 
all the rollovers.
Beta cabinets have metal walls on this section - production ones have red plastic walls. 

Left Ramp 
Fairly steep ramp feeding to the left inlane via a habitrail. Used extensively by the Modes and 
to light the Jackpot shot in Multi-Ball. 

E-N-T Targets 
Three drop targets spelling the ENT bit of ADVENTURE. Between them, they cover a Raise Jackpot
target and the entrance to the Lock/Hurry Up. 

Raise Jackpot 
A small target located behind the E-N drop targets used during Multi-Ball, Dogfight and others. 

Lock & Hurry Up 
A sinkhole located behind the E-N-T targets which can be shot with just the 'T' down. 

Pop Bumpers 
The traditional triangular arrangement of 3 situated behind the sinkhole and under the left ramp. 
The ball can be fired up back through the I-N-D-Y rollovers or leave down from the left orbit or 
down from the Captive Ball. 

I-N-D-Y Rollovers 
Behind the Pop Bumpers. Spell INDY to advance Bonus X and light a Friend. Lit rollovers can be
moved left/right by the flippers. 

Captive Ball 
A lane just to the right of the 'T' leads to a single drop target which protects the captive ball.
Hit the ball for Quick Multi-Ball and Super Jackpot.
Note: The Captive Ball has two switches, one at the front and one at the back. The one at the back 
generally awards higher points but not much else. 

Right Ramp 
Another steep one. Used a lot by the Modes and can be lit for Jackpot and Path to Adventure. Normally
feeds to the right flipper but will go to the left from Jackpot and Adventure. 

Right Orbit 
Used mainly during certain Modes. Works in the same way as the left orbit. 

U-R-E Targets 
The third group of targets making up ADVENTURE. These face opposite the A-D-V targets and are also
the stand up type. 

The Idol 
Sort of like a horizontal version of FT's fishing reel, this is where up to three locked balls are kept. 
Balls released from this go across the right outlane to the right flipper. There is a sound effect of 
an elephants' trumpet before each ball is released - very useful during Multi-Ball. 

Right Inlane/Outlane 
Same as the left, the inlane lights Hand of Fate and the outlane is good for a Special when lit. The 
divider for these two lanes has a one-way gate at the crook which allows balls fed from the Idol to get 
to the flipper, and at the crook of the outlane there is a post which will give skilled players to 
opportunity to bounce the ball back into the inlane. It can be opened up a loooonnnggggg way though 
(further than TZ's left outlane!!). 

Flippers/Slingshots 
Just the two of each in the usual places - flippers are full length and apparently will stay that way as 
the machine is not shipped with the small ones. Also, the gap between them is quite small. 
 

Playfield Awards
  

Skill Shot 
There ain't one ..... :) 

I-N-D-Y Rollovers 
As with most things in IJ, the INDY rollovers serve more than one purpose: increasing the bonus mutliplier,
lighting Indy's Friends and (of course) scoring points. Completing them increases BonusX (2x, 4x, 6x & 8x)
and lights one of Indy's Friends (see Orbits: below), and relights the inlanes for Hand of Fate. Once you 
have reached 8x, subsequent INDY's are worth a 10M 'Maximum Bonus' award (not P-3 ROMs) but there is a twist :)
At 8x, Extra Ball is also lit at the Mode Saucer. Collecting it (or a 'Max Bonus') will cause BonusX to be 
reset to 1x on the next ball. This is probably the easiest way to get lotsa EB's. 

Super Pops 
Enough hits on the pop bumpers will start Super Pops where all hits are worth 1M each. 75 hits is the magic 
number, but it is (of course) operator settable. Once lit, Super Pops is active until end of ball which could 
lead to monster scoring. Each successive Super Pops starts after 50 more hits than the previous one 
(ie 125, 175, 225 etc). 

Narrow Escape 
Scores 1M after a right outlane drain which is saved through the gate to the inlane. Second Narrow Escape is 
worth 2M, third 3M and so on. This value is held throughout the game and apparently has no limit 
(Kevin has had it up to 52M!). 
Note: The game recognises a Narrow Escape when the first rollover in the outlane is hit, but not the second. 
Therefor, it is quite common to score it even when you actually drain - especially when that post is open to 
the max. Also, it is possible to trip the outlane switch while the ball is deciding which lane it is going to 
go down - this will also score a Narrow Escape 

Orbits 
Left and right orbit shots are worth 1M + (2M x Lit Friends) when lit. This provides a minimum of 3M per loop 
since you get one free Friend lit and a max of 11M per loop. Consecutive lit loops are worth 2X, 3X, 4X the 
base with no known limit (7x is the highest I've heard of). If you are good at loops, you can get some pretty 
huge scores from lit loops .. :) 

Loop Jackpot 
This could also be called a 'Friends Jackpot' and is scored in the following manner: Light all friends from the
INDY rollovers (lit Friends are denoted by a flashing light between the slingshots), shoot lit loops to light 
each Friend solidly (as opposed to flashing) then shoot the right ramp to collect the jackpot. Scoring is the 
total of all lit loops collected before the Jackpot is collected, to a maximum of 200M. The base at the start 
of the game is 5M. If you fail to collect the Loop Jackpot before the end of the ball when you light it, both the
Friends and the Loop Jackpot value are reset (value becomes 0M). 
Note: If the right ramp is lit for Multiball jackpot and Friends jackpot, one hit will collect both but only the
animation for Friends is displayed.. 

Ramps 
Making a lit ramp is worth 1M and lights the alternate ramp via the inlane. Hitting alternating ramps in succession
will score 1M, 2M, 3M, 4M and so on.... 

Dogfight 
Shooting left and right ramps when lit will also spot a green, winged light (seen amongst the Mode lights on the 
playfield). Completing all six will start a Dogfight. Hurry Up is lit and counts down from 40M, shoot the sinkhole 
behind the E-N-T targets or the Raise Jackpot target to collect. 
Note: The countdown will not start if the T target is still standing so it is possible to score the whole 40M in the 
same way that you might get a 'You cheat Dr Jones', or hitting the Raise Jackpot. 

Quick Multi-Ball 
Three successful shots to the the drop target protecting the Captive Ball will cause it to stay down and the captive 
ball be lit for 2 ball Multi-Ball for 20 secs. During this Multi-Ball shoot the Captive Ball to collect items. Drop 
target hits are worth 1M, 2M, 3M for the three hits. There are five items which can be collected from the Captive Ball 
during Quick Two Ball Multiball as follows: 
The Idol of The Incas (10M) 
The Diamond of Shanghai (15M) 
The Remains of Nurhachi (20M) 
The Cross of Coronado (25M) 
The Fish of Tayles (30M) 
Each subsequent hit is worth a 40M 'All Treasures Collected' score with the first of these lighting the outlanes for 
Special. If you do not get all the treasures on the first 2-Ball, they remain spotted next time you get the Quick Two 
Ball. 

Note: A good solid hit on the Captive Ball which causes the back switch to close adds an extra 10M to the above values. 
This is also sometimes called the Totem Multiball. 

During Quick Multi-Ball, all values on the Path of Adventure are doubled. I don't know if this includes the Pit value. 

The Hand of Fate 
Lit from the inlanes and scored by hitting the Mode saucer. Lighting the inlanes is done by collecting INDY. If it is 
not collected at the saucer within a certain time it will timeout. The inlanes start out lit for 'Light Hand of Fate' 
at the beginning of each ball. 
The animation is similar to the Mystery award on WhiteWater and is displayed twice - first showing a list of 4 awards 
and then choosing and awarding one of them. The list of 4 is selected from a larger list which includes: 

10M points, 20M points, Lite Extra Ball, Eternal Life, 
Quick Multi-Ball, Bonus X, Dogfight, Loop Person, 
Lock Ball, Lite Path , Super Pops. 
Notes: Loop Person spots one of Indy's friends, and the Eternal Life timer is operator settable. Lock Ball will increment 
the count of balls locked regardless of whether there are balls in the Idol or not. 

If Light Extra Ball is on the list of 4, it is always the one which is awarded for some strange reason. 

Path of Adventure 
The letters from the word ADVENTURE can be spotted in on of two ways: either a direct hit on the corresponding target, 
or a hit on any of the three groups (ADV, ENT, URE) once that group is lit which will spot the next unlit letter. To 
explain the latter, if you have ADV_Ent_uRe, a hit on the ADV bank will spot 'N' for you. The 'Raise Jackpot' target will
spot a letter if ENT are down. 
Completing all the ADVENTURE targets lights the right ramp for Path of Adventure. When complete, shooting the right ramp 
gets you with the chance of playing on the raised mini-playfield. The objective here is to tilt the field left and right 
in an attempt to steer the ball over the lit rollovers (indicated by yellow lights) or into one of the holes (The Pit & 
Extra Ball). The number of lit rollovers increases by one each time you complete the Path without collecting The Pit, 
up to a max of 6. 

Awards are as follows: First set of rollovers completed lights Extra Ball. Subsequent completed Path's light and then raise 
the Pit value by 25M to a max of 150M. Each lit rollover is worth 5M with a further 1M for each time you completed ADVENTURE 
without actually playing PoA. (limit of 10M per rollover) Once you have collected The Pit, PoA is still lit, but now the lit 
rollovers are travelling (this is new for L-3) - I assume the value of The Pit is reset. Hitting the first set of travelling 
rollovers relights the EB hole on the raised playfield. 

Path of Adventure will remain lit until the 15 sec timer expires, or you drain. Complete ADVENTURE again to relight. 

 

The Modes
It would have been nice to see these with a better definition than just Mode - some sort of big concept that they are based 
around. Admittedly, I can't think of anything that might fit the bill though. 

Anyway, there are 12 of them based on significant scenes from the three movies (4 modes for each movie) which are displayed 
in the big open space in the centre of the playfield. They are collected by hitting the Start Mode saucer which is always lit 
unless there is another Mode or Multi-Ball running (it needs to be - the shot is harder than TZ's Slot Machine IMHO). 

There is a 5M bonus just for starting any of the 12 Modes which are listed below in the order you would read them off the playfield: 

  

Castle Grunewald 
Hit the drop target, then pound away at the Captive Ball for points. Scoring is 5M, 10M & 15M for the three hits required for you 
to 'escape' from the castle making a total 35M (5M for starting) for the round. 
In L-5 revision, nailing the Captive Ball so that it hits the second switch doubles the score for that shot (ie 10, 20 & 30M). 

Tank Chase 
Animation of Indy on a horse chasing a tank. Orbit value starts at 15M and counts down to 5M. Each loop gets Indy a bit closer to 
the tank and enough of them will get him onboard to to destroy the tank for a 30M end of mode bonus. 
Note: The loop does not actually need to be completed to count. Early ROM's would count a loop if the two rollovers in the lane were 
hit in quick succession. Therefor you could get a loop credit from a ball leaving the pop bumpers on the left. Later revisions 
require that the bottom rollover be hit first. 

Three Challenges 
Shoot the right ramp for the Path to Adventure raised playfield. Challenges 1,2 & 3 are completed by hitting all lit rollovers for 
10M, 20M & 30M respectively. All lit rollovers have to be hit during one pass of the Path to collect the points. This is pretty easy 
since they are usually in a row on one or other side of the Path (although Keefer claims to have had two next to each other on opposite 
sides!). The switches which are lit depends on whether The Pit has been collected or not; if not, you will have to hit 1, 2 & 3 switches 
for the Challenges; if it has, you will have to hit travelling lights but there is a bug here which makes it pretty useless at this 
point anyway (see Bugs: below) 

Choose Wisely 
Animation of the knight telling you to choose wisely. Five identical chalices are displayed, you are told which is the genuine article 
then you have to keep your eye on it while they are shuffled around. Then select using the flippers and choose by pulling the trigger 
on the gun (the plunger). Worth 5M if you blow it, 20M bonus if you get it right. Classic animation if you get it wrong ...... ;) 
Subsequent attempts are at different speeds and buggy (see Bugs: below). 

Monkey Brains 
Rather gross display of a monkey's head with the brain exposed to the world and steaming happily. Hitting ramps and orbits scores 8M 
each and allows you to eat some brain (yuk!). The animation for this mode is quite entertaining if you are that way inclined, and the 
BUUUURRRRRPPPP sound effect is one of my favourites. This is a timed Mode with no end of Mode bonus. 
Note: See Tank Chase note regarding loop scoring. 

Steal the Stones 
Shoot the right ramp for a chance to steal the Stones (yellow flashing lights) from the raised Path of Adventure playfield. Each stolen 
stone is worth 5M and there is a 20M bonus for collecting all 8. 
Second time round, the last 4 stones float and you need to hit the last 2 of these on one pass to complete the Mode. 

Escape in the Cart 
Video Mode animation of Indy going through a mine in a cart. Use the flippers to choose which way to go to avoid the barriers - make 25 
correct decisions to complete the mode and escape. Scoring is 5M plus 1M for each correct turn and 10M bonus for getting half way and 
30M for completion. Note that the cart gets faster and faster the more turns you make, and there are minor bugs here too (see Bugs: below). 

Survive the Rope Bridge 
Timed round in which Indy is trying to cross the bridge. Successive ramp shots will move him further along and score 10M each. Four ramps 
are required to get him across, and a fifth to cut the rope. An Extra Ball will be lit at the Mode saucer if you complete the round. 

Get the Idol 
The objective of this Mode is to steal the Idol by shooting the lock sinkhole. This is complicated by the ENT targets which keep resetting 
and getting in the way. Each reset is accompanied by a quote as follows: 
Start Mode: There's nothing to fear here.
That's what scares me. 
First hit : Throw me the whip. 
Second hit: Throw me the Idol. 
Third hit : Give me the whip. 
Fourth hit: Adios, senor. 
After this, the targets remain down to expose the sinkhole. Scoring is 5M for 1 target, 10M for 2, and 20M for a sweep of all 3. Collecting 
the Idol is worth 20M, ends the Mode and locks a ball for Multiball. 

It is possible to collect the Idol while the targets still stand (ie a 'You Cheat' lock) but there is nothing special awarded for doing this. 

Streets of Cairo 
Shoot the ramps and orbits to search for Marion under boxes (she's under the one the monkey is screeching on) - 10M each if Marion is not 
underneath. Finding Marion alters the display to show Indy being menaced by a sword wielding Arab type - score the Mode saucer to have 
Indy shoot him for a 20M bonus. It is also possible to blast the Arab by pulling the trigger on the plunger although that is only worth a 
paltry 2M points. There is a total time for this mode, so the sooner you find Marion, the longer you get to shoot the Arab, although you 
can rack up some serious points by deliberately shooting the boxes she is not under (this has changed for L-6 where you can only collect 
each box once). 

Well of Souls 
Hectic 6 ball Multi-Ball during which successive shots to the lock sinkhole are worth 2M x balls-in-play. Balls remain locked in the 
sinkhole for a short time before getting thrown back into play. After six shots into the sinkhole, the ENT targets will start to reset 
for each hole scored making subsequent shots a lot harder - it also helps if you start this Mode with the drop targets down. 
Animation is of Indy in a room full of snakes which he torches when you hit the hole. This Mode lasts while there is more than one ball 
in play and thus there is no bonus for end of Mode. 

Get the Medallion
Video Mode in which the flippers aim Indy's gun left and right to shoot bad guys in a the Raven Bar for 1M each (firing is automatic). 
An EB appears after enough bad guys have been toasted as does the Medallion (20 hits), shoot them to collect. The round ends when you 
either collect the Medallion (for 15M bonus) or the baddies shoot you enough (a lot like Video Mode in T2). Second time round you need 
to hit 25 baddies to get the Medallion to appear which (I'm told) is almost impossible. Note: In the animation, this is called the 
Raven Bar Video Mode. 

During the Modes a shot to the Start Mode saucer during a Mode is worth a 1M Mode Bonus and the Captive Ball drop target is worth a 2M 
Mode Bonus. The exceptions to this are Streets of Cairo (after finding Marion), Castle Grunewald and the VM Modes (Choose Wisely, Escape 
the Mine and Raven Bar/Medallion) when the ball is locked there. As with Twilight Zone, the scores from these rounds are added to your 
bonus at the end of ball and can be pretty big. 

A neat thing about these is that it's not the pop bumpers which alter the next lit one, but the ramps. Therefore, a skilled player 
should be able to select the mode he/she wants by shooting the appropriate number of ramps to light the required Mode and then 
collecting it. 

Completing all 12 of the above lights Start Mode for: 

Eternal Life MultiBall (Wizard award)
Completion of all 12 Modes awards the player with a 6 ball MultiBall. Eternal Life is on for about 30 secs and balls are pumped out onto 
the playfield. Every switch (except the outlanes) are lit for 10M each. Collecting ALL switches including the PoA ones scores 1B and relights 
all the switches for another go. 

It would appear that this feature is one of the buggiest on the game. Sometimes it will give the animation for the 1B but not the points, 
and it will often leave the Path of Adventure playfield confused. 
 

Combination Shots
There are no (known) combination shots on Indiana Jones. I suspect this is due to multiple ramps/loops having other functions (ie Dogfight 
and Friends Jackpot) 
 

Extra Ball
This game is one of the most liberal when it comes to Extra Balls. Even on 'hard' settings you can fairly easily get 5, and on most games 
they seem to be unlimited. Also, all lit EB's are remembered between balls. 

There are at least five ways of getting an EB from Indiana Jones: 

Light the Path of Adventure then shoot the right ramp to play on the raised mini playfield. Steer the ball over the lit rollovers and as 
soon as the first set have been collected, the second hole will be lit for an EB. This means that it is possible to get an EB from the first 
pass of PoA, but in practice it is unlikely. 
Further EB's are available every time you complete a set of rollovers after collecting The Pit. 

Light the four I-N-D-Y rollovers 4 times to increase bonus to 8X and light Extra Ball at the Start Mode saucer. Collect by shooting the saucer. 
Light the Hand of Fate from the inlanes. When collected at the Start Mode hole it will sometimes light an EB. Shoot Start Mode again to collect it. 
Shoot Start Mode for Survive the Rope Bridge, cross the bridge and Extra Ball will be lit at the Mode saucer. Shoot Start Mode to collect. 
Shoot Start Mode to start Raven Bar Video Mode. An Extra Ball is available after about enough bad guys have been blown away. Shoot it to collect. 
 

Note: There are different Operator settings which allow different numbers of available EB's. For example, some settings only allow 1 EB 
to be collected using the first method above (INDY rollovers) whereas in others this is unlimited. 
 

Multi-Ball
Multi-Ball on Indiana Jones is somewhat reminiscent of that on FishTales. 

Briefly it's 
Lite Locks - Lock 3 balls - Multi-ball: shoot left ramp to light jackpot, right to collect it (repeat twice)
Super Jackpot: Lit from left ramp, collected by hitting captive ball. 

Locking Balls 
Shoot the E-N-T drop targets to open a path to the sinkhole and lite the Lock. Balls can be locked with none of the targets down and 
gets you the quote "You cheat, Mr Jones" from Shorty and 5M. 

Multi-Ball 
Once 3 balls have been locked, you get an animation of our hero being chased by a huge rolling boulder and Multi-Ball starts. 
The 3 balls are returned from the idol to the right flipper in fairly quick succession and Eternal Life is on for a few seconds. 
Eternal Life is only on for the first Multiball though. 

Jackpots 
There are three of them; The Ark, The Stones and The Grail which are worth a base of 20M, 30M & 40M respectively. This base can be 
increased in one of two ways: First, there is 'raise jackpot total'. Shooting Start Mode adds 2M to it, the Captive Ball target adds 3M,
the Captive ball adds 5M (10M if you really nail it and hit the back switch) and the Raise Jackpot target adds something (anybody know 
how much?). Second, shooting balls into the sinkhole will multiply the (base + raise jp) value: 1 ball gets you 2x and lights Jackpot 
if not already lit, and 2 balls gets you 3x. Balls fired into the sinkhole remain in the Idol until one of the following occurs: 
You collect the Jackpot. Balls are released and Jackpot Multiplier is reset. 
You have no balls left active on the playfield. The next ball is released from the Idol - Jackpot multiplier remains unchanged. 
20 second timer expires. Balls are released and Jackpot Multiplier is reset. 
Lighting the jackpot is done by successfully shooting the sinkhole or making the left ramp. Collecting jackpot is done by shooting the right ramp. 

Super Jackpot 
Collect all 3 Jackpots and Super Jackpot will be lit at the Captive Ball. There are 3 levels: 80M for the Arc, 90M for the Stones and 
100M for the Grail, each one being lit from the left ramp. The raise jackpot total applies to these, but they cannot be multiplied and 
each one after the third seems to be worth around 105M-115M. 

In short: 
Jackpots are worth: (base + raise jackpot)*(balls in Idol + 1) 
Super Jackpots are worth: base + raise jackpot 

Jackpots will remain spotted until you have collected at least the first Super Jackpot and that multiball ends. Then you start 
from the Ark Jackpot again on the next multiball. 

Multi-Ball restart 
There ain't one ..... However, if you do drain two balls, the Jackpot remains lit until the timer expires (see notes). 
(But the Super Jackpot never remains lit and has _no_ grace period.) 
Notes: There are some significant differences between P-x and L-x for Multiball: 

The ENT drop targets reset at the start of Multiball and every time a ball gets sent to the Idol (2x & 3x multiplier) in L-x. 
This behavior can be set in L-x with the Easy Multiball option. 
Super Jackpot values for P-x are 100M, 125M & 150M 
If the Friends Jackpot is lit, the regular Jackpot will still be collected by a shot to the right ramp (so will the Friends) 
but only the animation for Friends jackpot will be displayed. 

Multiball cannot be started during Toem Multiball (quick 2-ball) 
Starting Multiball will suspend any Mode which is running which uses the Path of Adventure, but a nasty bug rears its head then. 

 

Hints, Tips, Strategies
The first thing to note here is that the scoring, at least during the early stages of a game, is well balanced. Most of the 
Modes have an effective limit of about 60M, there are no excessive Jackpot shots like the 1.2B Davros on DrWho and you have 
to work at getting good points from Multi-Ball (unlike Dr*c!) by shooting the sinkhole and targets which raise the jackpot value. 

Another thing is that there are no redundant shots - everything is useful either directly or indirectly toward some major award. 
However, some shots are certainly more important than others; the Start Mode hole for example is probably top of the list - 
if you can't hit it, you can't play any of the special Mode rounds, you can't collect Hand of Fate or Extra Ball if lit among other 
things. I would probably put the Lock sinkhole as second best shot to learn and then the ramps. 

Given the above, it is therefor almost impossible to have a definative game plan. However, here are some ideas: 

Shoot the E-N-T targets followed by alternate ramps until Dogfight is lit. Shoot the sinkhole to collect Hurry Up (Dogfight) and 
lock ball 1. Repeat for second ball, but take the time to shoot Start Mode for Raven Bar VM when lit (to get an EB). Same again 
for third ball then play Multi-Ball for Jackpots. 
Shoot ramps to select required Mode and light Hand of Fate. Shoot Start Mode to collect. Shoot sinkhole to collect any Dogfights 
which are lit as a result of ramp shots. 
Shoot ADVENTURE targets to light Path of Adventure, shoot right ramp and play PoA, shoot right ramp and play PoA, shoot right ramp 
.... etc. (lots of points and at least 1 EB there). Collect The Pit when you feel like it. 
Concentrate on Multi-Ball. This is probably the easiest way to score big points and the way most people will choose, but IMHO not 
the best and certainly not the most fun. 
If it's lit, shoot for it ...... (for people who can't make up their minds ... :) ) 
I expect that gameplan for most people will be largely determined by which shots they are best at. There are certainly some good 
points to be had from the Modes and some help toward EB's too so if you can hit the saucer this would probably be the way to go. 
Alternately, if the right ramp is not a problem for you, Multiball is probably best. 

To help you decide what to go for, the following is a rough guide to where the big points are: 

Jackpot  60M+ (with 3x multiplier)  
Super Jackpot  80M+  
The Pit (PoA)  150M (upper limit)  
Loop Jackpot  100M+  
Dogfight  40M (upper limit)  
Modes  35M+ (practical upper limit of 90M with an average of about 50M)  
Eternal Life Multi-Ball  1B (if all switches hit or 10M/switch)  

One useful hint is to try to avoid starting any Multi-Ball while you have Path of Adventure lit since this feature remains active 
and it is pretty tuff trying to control the raised playfield and keep several balls in play at the same time. The problem is not 
so much that balls up there are hard to control, but that once you have got one up there you have to keep doing it or else PoA will 
time out and you will have wasted it. 

Another useful tip regards saving balls from a right drain. As the ball rolls down the outlane, nudge the machine to the RIGHT which 
should knock the ball onto the outlane post (no matter how far open it is) from which it will rebound through the gate. BTW - you are 
probably thinking I've lost the plot here, but I assure you it works for me - I probably would not have included except somebody else 
mentioned it too. 

Any Multiball is useful when Super Pops are running. 

Try to start Multiball when Cross the Rope Bridge is going since, with all those balls flying around, it's apparently pretty tuff NOT 
to get the EB lit. Of course this could be related to some bugs which have been observed involving ramps during Multiball. 

Bugs
More like 'Killer Cockroaches' than bugs .... :) 
I used to think the software on this game was pretty good. However, recent Net traffic has shattered that illusion so I have now 
decided to give the software problems their own section... 

Hardware problems with recent machines have already been noted by several folks; the software, if anything, is worse! The bulk 
of these seem to involve the Path of Adventure playfield and its associated Modes. Fortunately for the casual player, they will 
not be exposed to many of them since they only pop up after the first Eternal Life Multiball. 

The following are bugs known to me (in no particular order): 

Sometimes, the game will award you the Billion from Eternal Life Multiball but not actually give you the points! 
Escape in the Cart only awards 49M if you complete it when it should be 55M (25 tunnels + 30M escape bonus). The Halfway Bonus is 
awarded after only 10 tunnels too. 

In Multiball, The Ark is actually mis-spelled as 'arc'. 

Occasionally two of the winged lights which indicate progress toward Dogfight will be flashing at once. This usually happens after 
Hand of Fate awards Start Dogfight. 

The monkey in Streets of Cairo will sometimes sit on the gap between two boxes and screech his head off. 

Shooting the left orbit in Streets of Cairo will often award both of the boxes on the left of the four. 

Choose Wisely on level 3 is so slow the chalices only get switched twice. 

Choose Wisely on level 4 causes a ball search which will often cost you the ball in play (it's kicked out of the saucer while the 
flippers are dead). 

If you have collected The Pit already, Three Challenges will only give you 5M (Mode Start bonus) coz the rollover switches don't 
register. 

Hand of Fate will give certain awards when it should not (ie 2 Ball awarded during Well of Souls!). It then ignores these awards. 
In L-x software, if the Gun Trigger function has been set to cancel the Buy-In, it will only work sometimes, and never if the last 
ball was Tilted (it simply clicks and doesn't cancel). 

The current Path Mode gets suspended when you start Multiball, but during Multiball, shooting ramps still alters the selected Mode. 
Kevin Martin suffered this when he started Multiball during Three Challenges and ended with Steal the Stones spotted! (This bug applies 
to these two rounds only but can cost you a chance at any other round.) 
 

Misc. Stuff
These are the odds and ends I couldn't find a logical place for in the above, or bits of interest: 

  

Plunger 
Automatic variety in the shape of a six shooter. No skill shot! 

Sound & Graphics 
The best sound I have heard in a Williams game so far. The graphics also are, at least, comparable to Dracula and TZ. 

Replay 
Nice animation of a whip being cracked and the appropriate sound effect which tends to drown out the traditional 'Thwack'. 

EB Buy-in 
Extra Ball buy-in is an option settable by the operator. When activated, you can buy a 'Super Ball' for 1 Credit. 
Note: Certain software upgrades on prototype cabinets cannot use EB buy-in since the software expects to find a 
dedicated button for this function. (software in beta's used the trigger on the gun. L-5 onwards has this fixed). 

Super Ball 
This is the ball you just paid a whole credit for. Eternal Life is lit for about 20 secs, Path of Adventure is Lit, 
and the next Mode is started. Eternal Life Multiball does not count as a Mode for this (ie it won't start automatically 
if you have all 12 Modes spotted already). 

Cows 
Finally spotted one Wed 18th August 1993. It's in the Shoot Again display when you start an extra ball. 
Six hiro .... heiro .... haro ..... hirogl ..... pictures are displayed as a background to Shoot Again - 
the top right one is a cow (well, looks like to me... :) Not on P-3 ROM's though. 

Saves 
I suspect Death Saves are possible, but then anybody who can do them should be good enough to nudge the ball back into the inlane 
through the gate. It's fairly easy to bounce the ball away from the in/outlanes anyway. 

Avian Balls 
A hard hit on the drop target in front of the Captive Ball will occasionally get the ball fired over the E-N-T targets! 
Shooting the E-N-T targets will occasionally shoot the ball over the left slingshot with about a 50/50 chance of it landing either 
on a habitrail or in the outlane (more common from a left flipper shot). On later software (P-4+) you will get the ball back the when this happens. 

Fun 
I spotted this in r.g.p. for Louis Koziarz who noticed that after a power cycle, pressing the flippers will get a random sound effect 
which is sometimes a loud BUUURRRRRPPPPP! (from Monkey Brains). This only appears on P-4 ROMs though. This also happens after a power 
cycle and then pressing Start. No longer happening at full volume in L-6, but the sound FX still occur if you press the buttons. 

Credits 
The following have contributed to the above in some way or another: 
Joel Iott   Jonathan Deitch 
Cameron Silver   David Stewart 
Steve Baumgarten   Mark Phaedrus 
Bowen Kerins   Kevin Martin 

and, in fact, most of the r.g.p. regulars .... Thanx .. :) 

