What is "whitestar"

The WhiteStar Board System was an arcade system board used for several pinball games designed by Sega Pinball and their successor, Stern Pinball, between 1995 and 2005. It is the successor to Data East Pinball / Sega Pinball's System 11-derived hardware, copied from Williams.

1995's Apollo 13 was the first game to use the WhiteStar System, and 2005's NASCAR (Grand Prix outside the US) was the final game to use the WhiteStar System.

It is succeeded by Stern's "S.A.M. System", which was first used in 2006's World Poker Tour.