Williams’ No Fear: Dangerous Sports, released in 1995 and designed by Steve Ritchie with a strong team, is a fast, adrenaline-soaked tribute to extreme sports — and pure Master of Flow design, right down to the absence of pop bumpers, which keeps the ball moving at breakneck speed. Built around a signature jump ramp, it channels the bungee-jumping, skydiving spirit of the No Fear brand into one of the quickest machines of its era.
The scoring rewards aggression and big, repeatable shots. Every jump ramp adds five million to your bonus, which can balloon enormously, and successive jump-ramp combos pay big points up to twenty-five million a shot. Rolling an inlane briefly illuminates the opposite orbit for a Raceway award worth five to twenty million and an extra ball. The route to glory runs through the wizard modes: the “No Limits” mini-wizard mode lights every shot, each building by a million up to seventy million a shot, while “Meet Your Maker” — the most lucrative mode in the game, with a jump ramp worth two hundred million a shot — is reached by timing out the modes.
Smart play leans on Ritchie’s flow: hitting the ramps starts Payback Time (à la Terminator 2), making all shots worth twenty-five million, and the left saucer holds the ball for about ten seconds during multiball for a breather. Blisteringly fast and built for huge scores, No Fear is Ritchie at his most relentless — a high-velocity thrill machine that rewards the player brave enough to keep their foot on the gas.