If anyone on the west coast wants to exit the banzai club I am looking for one.

Still looking for a Banzai if anyone is looking to trade or sell.

Banzai is the most elusive pin I have every sought out. People want crazy money for it in beater condition. One day I will own this game.

If anyone wants to let a Banzai go I have a Whirlwind with CPR playfield, new ramps, cpr plastics i'd trade towards one.

That’s a 20+K machine easily. I’m absolutely jealous.

After 9 years of looking I finally acquired a Banzai Run. It’s a players game that needs lots of tlc but is fully mylared making the playfield very nice except a small area around the poops. I’m going to clean it up and play the hell out of it before I attempt a full restore. I’m sure I’ll have lots of questions for the group in the near future.

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Did you do the upper playfield also? Curious which playfield you used?

Can anyone tell me the part numbers or size of the three posts that hold the lower slingshot rubber and handlebar plastic in? I looked in the manual but nothing that I can see. I will measure them next but the two I need are snapped off.

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Sorry. I’m talking about the pieces that hold those to the playfield. The posts inside thst fasten to the playfield. I’m not at home or I would have posted a pic of them.

I have video but can’t download it here. I picked up this Banzai three weeks ago and the only real problem with it is when I’m goin for #1 or king of the hill the lock light lights up in the upper playfield and the ball locks on the kicker just below the little flipper. Is this supposed to be happening? I thought you were supposed to go through normal progression and lock the ball in lower playfield saucer and then go to the top to get multiball? On mine it kicks a ball into the shooter lane and as soon as you plunge the ball in the upper playfield just kicks out and falls to the lower playfield. I can hear a clicking from time to time like maybe a stuck switch or something but I can’t pinpoint it. Any ideas at all on how to troubleshoot this? I hope this isn’t confusing and can send anyone the video if it helps.

I’ll check that out when I get home. So, I don’t have a problem. I’ve watched Bowens tutorial tons of times and never picked up on that. Thank you for setting me straight!

Anyone had display issues on their Banzai Run? My displays worked fine when I picked up the game, but slowly it has become wonky to turning blank and back to normal to blank and it doesn’t work at all now. I’ve swapped the ribbon cable from my whirlwind in and the same issues persist. I’m reading that the +100/-100 needs to be checked on the power supply. I can’t find anything online that shows specifically for an amateur how to do this testing. Have any of you replaced the display with a led and which did you use? These are expensive so I’d rather keep it original if I can. I also have no problem sending boards in, but am hesitant since I don’t know for sure the boards need work? Any advice would be appreciated. Most of the tutorial videos out there don’t go in depth for beginners and leave a lot of guess work for people who don’t know the procedures.