No Fear: Dangerous Sports

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No Fear: Dangerous Sports
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Manufacturer Williams
Release date1995
System Williams WPC-Security
Design Steve Ritchie, Dwight Sullivan, Matt Coriale, Greg Freres
ProgrammingMatt Coriale
ArtworkGreg Freres
MechanicsCarl Biagi
Music Dan Forden
SoundDan Forden
VoicesSteve Ritchie (Skull)
Greg Freres (Announcer)
Production run4,540

No Fear: Dangerous Sports is a 1995 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams. It is based on the clothing line. This game has an extreme sports theme and features skydiving, free climbing, water skiing, extreme skiing, supercross and NASCAR racing. This was the last game Steve Ritchie designed for Williams. [1]

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Design

No Fear is the first completely CAD designed pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie after he learned CAD to speed up the design process, completing it in 5.5 months. [2]

The game includes magnets used both as an accelerator and as a divider. [2]

Launch options

Before launching each ball from the plunger, the player may choose one of five awards with the flipper buttons. Unless otherwise noted, the ball is launched through the Skydive lane and another one is fed into the right inlane from the right scoop. The choices are:

Challenges

The goal in this game is to complete the five main challenges in order to qualify for the Major Challenges:

Major Challenges

After completing the main challenges, one major challenge becomes lit at a time, in the sequence shown below. The first one can be immediately started by shooting the Skull, but the player must spell "NO FEAR" by making loop/ramp shots in order to light each of the others and then shoot the Skull to start it.

Digital version

No Fear: Dangerous Sports released for The Pinball Arcade for several platforms in November 2015 [3] as a WMS-only licensed table and taken down on June 30, 2018 [4] after WMS license expiration. Valvoline logos are replaced by those for No Fear, and other brands such as Ford, Cummins and Goodyear are converted to fictional ones. Mentions of athletes associated with the sports featured in the game, including water-skier Sammy Duvall and NASCAR driver Robby Gordon, are edited out of the announcer's remarks that precede the main challenges.

References

  1. Michael Shalhoub (2012). The Pinball Compendium. Schiffer. p. 202. ISBN   978-0-7643-4107-6.
  2. 1 2 "The Flipside profile: Steve Ritchie" (PDF). The Flipside. Vol. 4, no. 3. 1995. pp. 25–26.
  3. "Update Mondays". toucharcade.com. November 30, 1995. Archived from the original on 2025-07-09. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
  4. Lawson, Aurich (2018-05-08). "The Pinball Arcade is losing its classic tables; grab them while you can". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2025-08-13.