Cherry Bell
Segasa-Sonic, 1978Hi all,
I have an opportunity to pick up a Cherry Bell pinball from 1977.
It's made in Spain by Sonic (Segasa), a company that I'm not familiar with. My Mr. Pinball Price Guide shows 138-851 made. Were there really <1000 of these made? Are parts for these machines unobtainum? Just trying to get some more info on this machine that I don't know much about.
Thanks,
Derek
Many of the mechanical parts are williams parts. I love mine as I lucked out and got one locally for a good price and the cosmetics are incredible. Haven't done much to mine but it's pretty easy to work on. I would imagine that any plastics or a replacement backglass would be pretty tough unless you found someone parting one out. Great bonus setup. Easy to turn it over. Here is mine. 20140223_200505.jpg20140223_200532.jpg
Quoted from rstrunks:Many of the mechanical parts are williams parts. I love mine as I lucked out and got one locally for a good price and the cosmetics are incredible. Haven't done much to mine but it's pretty easy to work on. I would imagine that any plastics or a replacement backglass would be pretty tough unless you found someone parting one out. Great bonus setup. Easy to turn it over. Here is mine.
Looks nice. Thanks for the pics.
I also own one and really enjoy the simple but fast gameplay. Also, perhaps the funniest backglass of all time. Mine is a keeper.
BITD distributors could`nt give them away. I still have an advertisement somewhere where they were listed at $345 new.
Yah I heard a story from a guy in about a distributor in MD ended up going out of business and left a container full of these things at port. They ended up opening up the container like 20 years later and auctioned them off. I guess from what he said, there were about 40 Cherry Bell's in that auction.
180549.jpgmost sonic games are really mint, they have fully finished playfields and mint backglasses. they knew what they were doing with the finishing processes on those pins.
altho my pf and glass looked great the cab and art did not hold up as well!
Great games with fantastic back glasses and well done play fields. The problem was that the cabs were made of the cheapest fiberboard they could find. One drop of water and that's all she wrote. I have a Sonic Super Straight from the same era and love it, although the cab was trashed. Mostly Williams parts and easy to work on.
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