So I run a little local add pinball wanted working or none. Got a call today very brief I got two old pinball machines in a barn you can come look at them this afternoon. No titles no prices no adress just a call me after work and I'll give you directions. More to come.
#mata-hari-bally EM & Big Bang Bar
Like a kid all kind of games dancing in my head truck ready picked up grandson to help load and have some cash it's local so can always get more if needed.
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Like a kid all kind of games dancing in my head truck ready picked up grandson to help load and have some cash it's local so can always get more if needed.
And a pistol?
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Like a kid all kind of games dancing in my head
This should help wet your appetite then.
So nothing like finding some thing local. Well ya I guess finding something good. I probably should have passed but that's not me. For sure will part the one out not sure on the other and a bonus arcade game came with the deal. And the barn well she wasn't so much of a barn.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Waiting anxiously.
Good luck, hopefully the seller isn't a fan of pawn stars or American pickers.
The good news was I got all of it cheap (very cheap) I asked how much and couldn't get the money out fast enough.
Quoted from Taxman:And a pistol?
No forgot the bang bang at home. Did tell my wife where I was going in case me and our grandson got axe murdered. It was a unique one still didn't get a adress just directions and it's the white house in the field. Then after we park at the house he walks us out to the barn that was in the woods out of site from the house and road.
Luckly we were able to drive back to the barn after buying the games that then even stranger or maybe not all considered when my grandson and I got done loading up and pulled out the seller was gone.
Also odd he told me at one time he had a bunch of backglass's but none to be found not even the ones for these two games.
Quoted from PopBumperPete:hopefully the Speak Easy is fixable
the Space Mission makes me sad
I'll post some pics after a wipe down and vac. Something has been in them. I think the space odyssey playfeild is okay? But the cab is gone looks like it may have laid on its side on a dirt floor for some time?
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Did tell my wife where I was going in case me and our grandson got axe murdered.
Smart man right there. Always good practice to do this.
Quoted from PaulCoff:Smart man right there. Always good practice to do this.
I have so mixed emotions about this. I have left a note at home with an explanation of where I was going. I have made sure I was armed.
If it worried me that much why did I go at all?
Serious psychological analysis needed. When we say it is an obsession it is real. No joke.
Quoted from Sinistarrett:What was the bonus arcade game?
Star fighter
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/05/potomac-mortgage-company-blue-sky.html
Seems like a bit of a odd ball rare??? I don't know
You guys who haul this stuff out of barns and tarps are saints.
You couldn't pay me to take these kinds of games.
Quoted from Taxman:If it worried me that much why did I go at all?
Serious psychological analysis needed. When we say it is an obsession it is real. No joke.
Undrstood, but the task itself is such a legal endorphin high (similar to sex or jumping out of a plane). To be able to pull a good condition/restorable pinball machine for under 1k in your vehicle, by yourself and drive away safely with your skin and bones unscathed can be such a rememberable adventure.
These machines are apart of American history and to be able to find and restore them is a form of patriotism.
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Seems like a bit of a odd ball rare??? I don't know
Wow thats one Ive never heard of. Made by the Potomac Mortgage Company!
Congrats on the finds. Check out the flyer for Star Fighter.
"Atomic Piles with their punishing attacks will surely destroy us" LOL!
I'd hate to have an attack of Atomic Piles.
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Did tell my wife where I was going in case me and our grandson got axe murdered.
I was thinking more like a reenactment of Deliverance.
Quoted from Sinistarrett:Wow thats one Ive never heard of. Made by the Potomac Mortgage Company!
Congrats on the finds. Check out the flyer for Star Fighter.
"Atomic Piles with their punishing attacks will surely destroy us" LOL!
I'd hate to have an attack of Atomic Piles.
Quoted from Pinslot:In England that was quite a common game. It was called Camtasia. Played it a lot. Fun game.
I like arcades but don't collect them and don't know much on this game other then what I'm finding on line.
This is from https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=18898
Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Star Fighter collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines
Quoted from ImNotNorm:Was it even the sellers barn? lol
I think so 
When I think barn I think of where I grew up, Minnesota. This is what I picture in my head.
Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:I was thinking more like a reenactment of Deliverance.
Did seller share any believeable info regarding the history of those two machines, why they were there, how long there, from a failed business, previously stolen, etc.?
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:Any weird stuff that was also there in the barn that you noticed? Any cool old signs?
Ha, I'm always scoping for other cool stuff on these type of pickups. Sometimes those items are more exciting than the games.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:You couldn't pay me to take these kinds of games.
Exactly. Can't agree more. Man, those are just gross.
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:Did seller share any believeable info regarding the history of those two machines, why they were there, how long there, from a failed business, previously stolen, etc.?
Yes story checks out he got them from an old closed bar years back from who was once the operator in this town, note the first games that I have found that have came from this same operator. He had bought them several years back and just never did anything with them, he heard my add and now they are mine to deal with.
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:Any weird stuff that was also there in the barn that you noticed? Any cool old signs?
Nothing cool, I looked for the backglass's and even was hoping to at least find a trace of them but no luck. Just old boats, Campers, Trucks and so on, nothing vintage just junk on the property.
Quoted from Frax:Exactly. Can't agree more. Man, those are just gross.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:You guys who haul this stuff out of barns and tarps are saints.
You couldn't pay me to take these kinds of games.
When I got home my wife said you paid for those? I did but it really wasn't that much.
I own a Space Odyssey (a nice one) but what I saw was hay here are some score reels I can try Nic's soapy water trick on cleaning them and maybe make my game even nicer. Plus its pop's are the blue ones mine are the yellow. I just saw part's lock down bar extra glass, maybe a nice playfield. There is no way I would try to restore this game, but hopefully it can make mine nicer and help someone else with their game down the road? Maybe I even try to clear this playfield and if I muck it up no real money loss to me.
The Speakeasy TBD. Missing a driver board, MPU shot, needs 2 display's maybe 3, needs a backglass. Will open it up I may get a few parts from it I may pass it on to someone who wants it. I may take some of my Bally stuff and try to fire it up just depends on what the inside looks like.
There fait in that old barn were to rot down to nothing, I hope they can at some point help the hobby by being used in some fashion.
I will post some pics the bad, and I hope to find some good????
Yeah, I mean...I'm a preservationist when it comes to stuff like arcade and pinball, but at some point the health risks to bring one of those things into my home (I have no garage!)....lol... I passed on a Mars Trek I really wanted about 6 months ago because I saw mouse turds in the bottom of the cabinet. Not like 1 or 2, but piles. A good deal is only a good deal if it doesn't come with a side of hantavirus, and it was a questionable deal BEFORE I saw that. 
Quoted from Frax:Yeah, I mean...I'm a preservationist when it comes to stuff like arcade and pinball, but at some point the health risks to bring one of those things into my home (I have no garage!)....lol... I passed on a Mars Trek I really wanted about 6 months ago because I saw mouse turds in the bottom of the cabinet. Not like 1 or 2, but piles. A good deal is only a good deal if it doesn't come with a side of hantavirus, and it was a questionable deal BEFORE I saw that.
I do have a garage, and a shed I keep games in that are in line to be fixed. Funny I haven't even taken these out of the truck, put a tarp over them last night. Want to do most of the cleaning in the drive way before bringing them in.
Be careful. I bought a few games in similar condition in central Louisiana and found they had powder-post beetle damage. Very annoying and you do not want to spread these to your other games! They are very hard to kill. I still made out great on the deal though.
Quoted from radium:Be careful. I bought a few games in similar condition in central Louisiana and found they had powder-post beetle damage. Very annoying and you do not want to spread these to your other games! They are very hard to kill. I still made out great on the deal though.
Space Odyssey Cab is going on the burn pile. Hope the playfeild is okay any questionable wood is getting burnt.
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