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Breakshot or Jack*Bot - help me choose

By westofrome

10 years ago


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#5 10 years ago

Depends. If they're the same price and condition, I would take JackBot. It's the more interesting game, and worth more. I like the game enough that, even though mine has been a headache and a half, I'm still intent on making it work. (I got a basket case. They're mostly not that bad, and were designed intentionally to be easy to work on for operators.) Breakshot was designed to be inexpensive; Capcoms are generally reliable from what I hear, but the number of people able to help you if something goes wrong will be smaller than the number of people that can help with a WPC game like JackBot.

#8 10 years ago
Quoted from rosh:

Had a jack*bot at my office for six months, got a couple of thousand plays while it was there and never had a single issue with it other then a broken rubber (insert joke here).
Was pleasantly surprised it held up that well. Just not a lot that can go wrong with it. My understanding is the issue with the eyes really depends on when it was made. I believe that if the arrow inserts at the top of the matrix are multi-colored vs white, then it was before they fixed the issues with the eye saucers. Mine did not have any problems with it.

This is true. The eye holes on the ones with colored inserts at the top row don't cup the balls properly. The ones with white inserts there play much better.

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