Hope your ceilings are high, very tall pin. Great machine, love the art and backbox animation.

No mods on mine except for some Led's which look pretty good on this machine. You will need a ceiling of 83 inches or so. It's pretty tall. No room for a topper for most people.
The one thing I did do to mine was to lay down a small piece of mylar underneath the drops from the two rails. The ball will start to damage that area if not protected. Have fun with your new pin, now go save the Queen!!!

I enjoy BG. Very fast game.

I haven't added any mods, other than spot lights to help add light to some of the very dark areas of the pf.

Glad to be part of the club.

No mods on mine either, I guess you can be the trail blazer on this one. The mylar is on the playfield but like a lot of games, where it could use it I.E the drop from the cannons there is no mylar.

I own one, couldnt pass on the deal i got, and i bought it anyways knowing it was never going into "my" gameroom, im short by an inch or so, but i also bought it so i could pull my nf off route and put that there.......

I used to have one (my avatar might look familiar). I added some additional lighting, and always loved the quick save the queen idea, but man, I'm never seen a machine with so many targets that do so little. I always thought above BOP this was the next best game for proc.

Really really really love this game from the first time I ever played one down in Illinois at this guys house who I was buying a ton load of games off of at the time and he had one set up in his living room that he wanted me to play. Long story short and $500 later its in the back of my truck and heading home with me that same day. I couldn't wait to get home each day and play it and that music kept going through my head all day long. I shopped and sold it for $1000, this is back in 1997. I regretted selling it but it just didn't fit into the liscensed theme of games that I had going at that time, so it had to go. Fast forward to 1999 and we bought a bigger house and all of a sudden had a lot more room for more games and I decided to find another Big Guns. Fast forward again to Expo 2002 and Kerry Stair had one for sale in his booth for $400 shopped and working nicely. Needless to say I paid him on the spot and I've had it here ever since. No way that game is ever leaving. Love it !!

John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi
269-979-3836

I bought a Big Guns about a month ago and got it working. Playfield is nice and the only issue was displays.

I was a little bit put off by the crowded playfield and didn't like it at first. Now I keep playing it some more and I am starting to like it more. Not sure if I will keep it but I should give it more time. It's tough to get multiball started and once it does it drains pretty quick. Challenging pin!

I posted a different thread here http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-led-should-i-put-in-big-guns-center-post

about putting a bright LED in the Center post. It really seems to need this! I can barely tell the post is up. I want to be able to see it from my periphiral vision so need a super bright one in there.

Hypothetical question here. If Big Guns were to be released by Stern today, how much would it cost?

Look at all the features included, we have 4 flippers, 6 drop targets, 13 standups, 2 Cannons, center post, 2 slings, 1 controlled gate, 1 kickback, and a mini bagatelle. They would have to remove the cannons of course for the Pro model. Also Pro wouldn't have the hand drawn art on the backglass, only photo shopped art.

So, a Big Guns LE should go for $9000 in today's marketplace.

$9000! A mere 10X what I had mine listed for a few weeks ago...

Immediately fell in love with it, but just as quickly fell out of love with it. Too tall for my basement. Sits between T-2 and Operation Thunder. Get s very little play.

Love Big Guns!

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Awesome signature from Python !
-mof

3 pins are in garage, 5 are in basement. operation thunder also too tall for basement. t-2 is close, but would fit. just don't want to take head off to move it. Can't move with head on, some tight turns.

Hated this game at my local joint in the late 80's. Compared to the Williams Cyclone it replaced, it was way too difficult to earn credits. I LOATHED IT... even boycotted it for days at a time... but always ended up trying again & again out of sheer frustration.
When the opportunity to buy one came up last year, I was hesitant. But I figured I could 'get even' with it by playing it for "free" & then kicking it to the curb. What can I say. It grew on me & I still have it.

Bought my Big Guns from the famous (or is it infamous?) B_R.

Played Big Guns in 1988 at 7 years old. It was in a resort in Steelville, MO that we used to vacation at. I picked one up that needed a shop out and display for $400 a mere half mile or so from my house in January 2012. It won't leave the collection. Awesome example of the 80s and a great childhood memory.

Thanks for making the rest of us feel older than dirt.

Whoops! Sorry!

Good thing I placed mine at school and build a P-ROC in it, so students can (re)programm the game. It's only 40 minutes a week though, so though there're new rules coming, this project is not moving fast.

Why does the backglass have a planet that looks like an eyeball? It looks cool. Someone needs to ask Python about that.

There's some sexual innuendo on the backglass if you look for it.

just sold mine, not sorry to see it go.

We have LED's that ghost but the plastics even clean are dark enough that the only place it's annoying is the multiplier (8 led's) in the middle of the PF.

Buddy of mine has one that he picked up a New in Crate drop in PF for. I believe he paid more for the complete PF than he did the entire game.

Where did he get one of those?? That would be sweet to get for mine!

These are usually in pretty great condition. I love mine. it's a fast game and those cannons are a GREAT toy. A lot of folks don't like the lack of pop bumpers. but the game flows nicerly without them. In my mind, the upeer playfield with the troll drops and targets takes the place of any pop action.

I am doing some minor restoration work on the bottom lip of the cabinet on mine, too much pushing it around unprotected without it's legs on in it's life. Some qwikwood will have to serve it's purpose in those places.

I do not remember where he found it. But it was a while ago, maybe 5 years?

I really like mine too, seems like the more I play it the more fun it gets..

Currently I have it here in the break room at work, it seems to get more play than my Radical that sits next to it. However, it seems like the more "advanced" players work their way over to Radical after getting pretty good at BG.

No mods really, just LED's in the back box and some in the play-field for good effects. Definitely a good solid machine that doesn't break down too often.

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Sweet looking Big Guns!!

Right now it's on the default settings. I've tried to adjust the length of time and # of targets for the Queen's Rescue but it becomes too easy and I end up scoring more than 10,000,000 points which doesn't register on the display. The display then lists the high score by the players initials in alphabetical order.

we have ours set to hard and you have to strike each guard once in the standard amount of time, to save the queen. Yes, we have two flashers behind the back wall and 4 regular bulbs. here is a photo of ours

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Mine will select lane 1 or 2 at random but never 3,4, or 5.

My bagatelle only lights lane #2 for that shot. Has done this consistently ever since I got it 18 months ago...

Later,
EV