Banzai Run (Williams 1988)

Welcome Race Fans to Banzai Run!

Since Visual Pinball was created, Banzai Run has been difficult to re-create due to the fact that is has one of the most unique designs in mechanical pinball with an upper playfield mechanism that replaces the backglass.
 

There have been some great solutions but none that serve all 3 platforms for cabinet, desktop and VR.
 

However, JPSalas (with the help of Aubrel) released a very innovative idea to have a "sliding" playfield to make up for some limitations of Visual Pinball point of view scripting.  
 

JP's modified table was used to build a prototype that had a normal backbox and backglass with the sliding playfield for VR thus having a level playing field for all 3 platforms in competitions, etc.
 

However, it did look quite odd in VR so RothbauerW took on the task of integrating a hybrid model that took some cues from the awesome VR Room that Sixtoe had previously built for Banzai Run.
 

After some heavy integration work, physics modeling, upscaling, tweaks, play balancing and a lot of testing, this version of Banzai Run will hopefully represent the best solution at this time given the Visual Pinball architecture.
 

Here are the commendations:
 

Based on JPSalas' v4.0 table.  Thank you JPSalas!  This included a playfield from EBIsLit and other coding from Aubrel.
 

THANK YOU to all previous authors on this table!
 

v1.00 
* TastyWasps - Project concept, Conversion to nFozzy/Roth physics with gameplay balance, Fleep Sounds, VR Room / Assets, pf mesh, various scripting / lighting
* RothbauerW - Conversion to full VR experience, physics tweaks, upper/lower playfield tweaks, roth stand-up targets, various other upgrades including integration
* Sixtoe - Geometry/physics tweaks and twerks.  Original amazing VR Room model. 
* Redbone - Playfield / Plastics graphical upgrades / upscales.
* Apophis - Super Sleuth
* Testing - Passion4Pins, PinStratsDan, StudlyGoorite, Robby King Pin, PrimeTime5k, DarthVito, Wylte, Smaug, bietkwiet
 

Thank you to the original Williams team for a truly unique pinball experience also!