Williams · 1996 · a fan tribute
Junk Yard
Crazy Bob's junkyard, rebuilt for the browser. The original 1996 program runs the rules, the dot-matrix display and the music, on a machine you can explore down to the last bolt.
I played Junk Yard through my four years of high school, almost every day. It holds a dear spot in my heart.
Williams · December 1996
The meanest game in the whole darn town
A young inventor is locked in Crazy Bob's junkyard with Spike the bulldog. To escape, he builds a flying jalopy out of junk. You help him by smashing a wrecking ball into toy cars, flushing the ball down a toilet, riding the Magic Bus and dodging Spike.
It was the last game Barry Oursler designed at Williams, made in a hard year for pinball. Only 3,013 were built.
The machine, the story and the rulesThree ways in
Play it, explore it, see how it was made
The machine in your browser
The original 1996 program on a 3-D table, Ultra graphics on capable devices, on keyboard, touch or gamepad.
Graphics and controls
Every toy, up close
Walk around the machine in 3-D, zoom into the art, and see how the crane works.
Look closer
Rebuilt from photos and a manual
The physics, the playfield art, the original ROM and the toys, with the evidence.
Read the storyThe original program
It's really in there
The machine's own 1996 software, the rules, the dot-matrix animations, and the sound board with Crazy Bob's voice and "Money (That's What I Want)", runs inside the page in an emulator. Its own service tests confirm our wiring: 57 switches, 12 coils and 64 lamps, one for one.
It's what you play: press Play and the 1996 program powers up.
How the ROM was brought back
Making of
From a blurry photo to 400 pixels per inch
There's no high-resolution scan of a Junk Yard playfield in public. The best photo has about 30 pixels per inch. The remaster redrew all of it, tile by tile, in the original screen-print style: 400 pixels per inch, every line within a hundredth of an inch of where it was, and every word checked against the photos.
The remastered playfieldHow to play
Collect junk. Build a jalopy. Defeat Crazy Bob.
Ten pieces of junk make five inventions. Each invention opens an adventure, adventures earn fireworks, and fireworks launch you into Outer Space.
Read the rules guideGallery
Real machines, our renders
