Williams info please!!Help me!!!

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Hi everbody, i want to write an article about one of the greatest companies ever in my opinion: Williams...
Any link, text, info will be helpfull for me, because it was difficult to find some data about this company history...
e-mail, pm me if you have any info or post right here!!!

Thanks in advance to everybody!!

Matías

[Gapporin]

The Arcade History Database (http://www.arcade-history.com) has some nice stuff on Williams' games, and on all arcade games in general.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

That helps me...but i want also some info about the company...the year the people founded it, some programmers, the licence with Bally/Midway/Acclaim, etc...

[Arqueologia_Digital]

C´mon people!!!, help Arqueologia_Digital!!!

[hydr0x]

uhhh i don't know shit about them but i guess there's some info in "The Ultimate History of Video Games" and maybe Joe has some info on them collected for our books

[JaredCenter]

Remember, Williams was also the #1 pinball company along with all the cool video games they were making at the time.

Check this out at gamearchive.com:

http://www.gamearchive.com/Pinball/Manufacturers/Williams/

A lot of the links don't work in the page, but it does give you a good list of pinball games they made when they did Defender, Robotron, Joust, etc.

Jot down the names of the pinball machines, then go to the Internet Pinball Database and look up the games. Most of every Williams pinball is covered with a fine-tooth comb, pics and all!

http://www.ipdb.org/

I hope this helps! Black Knight, Firepower, and Alien Poker are my favorite pins from Williams.

[Lady Jaye]

Well, one thing I know off the top of my mind is that the company now known as Midway is actually Williams (ie. Williams was the one who swallowed in Bally/Midway, not the other way around). I dunno why they opted for the name Midway rather than keep the name Williams, perhaps because of name recognition.

BTW, don't rely too much on Midway's website for info, as it reeks of revisionist history (the site doesn't divide the former Bally/Midway, Williams Electronics and Atari Games, thus giving the impression that it's been one big company all this time).