I have a Dodge City. It is a great looking game but those long slingshots at the bottom of the playfield like to pass the ball back and forth to each other until it inventively goes over top and down the drain. The gates are great for skill shots but again the slingshots make it hard to setup a shot. It’s a challenging game.

Great minds think alike!

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Another one saved! Incredible work.

WOW! Beautiful! Got to be one of the nicest Spinouts I’ve seen.

My Exhibit Supply “New Contact” was made in the same month/year as Williams Saratoga and features a Patent Pending pop bumper design they called “explosion kickers” that “give action and thrilling suspense as never before”.

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Thanks for all you do!

I agree with that, so is the EM market!

I have the same problem as you although I have seen 300 and Space Mission pop up somewhat frequently around here with a wide price range.

With all that is going on right now, the pin market seems to be really weird. Maybe it’s because EMs seem to be more popular with an older crowd and people are just being careful? I don’t know. I check 5 or 6 sources daily and when one does come up it goes quick quick quick.

I remain convinced that pinball shows are the best place to buy and sell. Easy transaction for the seller and you can have your pick of games to play before making a pick. Unfortunately they’re not happening right now either.

I think $750 in today’s money would be a fair price.

Wow it’s like Dodge City and King Of Diamonds had a baby!

I would do two things:

1. Trace that wire or look at the schematic to see where it's going. Look for a switch or coil that is stuck on or a short to ground somewhere in that circuit.

2. I would clean up both the mail and female connection to make sure that's not part of the problem.

Incredible!

Wow what a time capsule! Thanks for sharing!

Just picked up this Super-Flite project. It’s in decent original condition. Should clean up nice! I can already tell it’ll be a fast game. Thought it might be a “buy and try” game but it might be sticking around longer than originally thought.

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Haven’t done a thing to it yet other than windex the glass! Was sitting in someone’s garage for what appears to be a long time. Needs a deep clean and some worn parts replaced. Looking forward to playing it when it’s 100%.

None on mine! What a strange place for one!

I was pleasantly surprised with how well the cabinet cleaned up on this Super-Flite. Probably one of the nicest originals that I have seen. But nothing prepared me for the surprise I found while cleaning out the cabinet! The tag was hiding under the bottom board.

IPDB says 98 sample games were made out of a total of 1901. Looks like I found #37!

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Good idea. I plan to do that once I finish things up.

That is awesome and top-shelf titles too!

Nice going!

I just finished a major refresh on this Gottlieb Buccaneer playfield, sample 1077S. This game does not seem to get much love on this site, but every example I have seen has a lot of wear and tear.

This one is not perfect but it cleaned up pretty well. No, those are not LEDs! It’s amazing what clean bulbs, clean plastics, and a clean playfield will do.

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Which has a more dramatic effect - a lineup of wedgeheads or multi-players?

Love finding them out in the wild like this. Congrats!

I played this game at Allentown and it was incredible. Very crisp and the bells were perfect. You could hear the game above all the others. Thanks for bringing it!

Nothing makes a statement quite like a row of Gottlieb multiplayers.

Here is a 1966 Midway Fun Ball that I picked up recently. It is appropriately named, as the main objective is trying to score as many runs, bonuses and extra balls as possible. I think this game could have had just about any theme, although baseball works fairly well. It appears that Midway used a similar layout for other games.

This is my first Midway game and it is different than pretty much any other game that I’ve worked on. Many of the game’s features are based on degrees of rotation of the motorized score reels. This puts a whole different “spin” on reading the schematics. Some of these less common manufactures don’t get the same respect as the Gottlieb or Williams, but I find that many times their engineering is more outside the box and often times more intuitive. I’ve worked out the bugs but am looking forward to cosmetically refreshing the game as a winter project.

I love a row a wedgeheads just as much as the next guy. But I feel that having a couple games like this in the lineup really rounds out a collection.

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It’s a great game!

That is interesting. An original ad for the game indicates that regular, replay and extended play models were available. But this game seems to have both replay and extended play. The continually rotating bonus reel allows points, 2 ball, 4 ball, and specials which awards either 100pts or 1 credit. Extra balls can also be scored depending on which targets are hit and how they are lit. The game keeps track of how many times “STAR” is completed and will award a credit at a selected threshold. This feature carries over game to game. There are many combinations to win and extend the game which makes it a great player like you said. On top of it all, there is a magnet under the playfield for curve balls. The player can’t control the feature, but the operator can adjust the frequency of curve balls. It truly is a goofy game. It took me a while to figure out everything that was going on.

Does your game have the instruction card on the apron? Mine is missing and I think I’ll need to come up with something to explain the game to new players.

That is really interesting! My game is closest to the top original card that you posted. Except that my game switches back and forth between 100 runs and a credit if a bonus target is hit and “Special” comes up on the continuously running score reel. Also it does not score 100 runs if STAR is completed. So not sure if mine is the “Regular” or “Replay” version. It makes sense that your other game is the “Extended Play” version with so many added balls.

I wouldn’t have expected so much variation in the games. At the very least I now have the correct looking format to come up with my own card. Thank you!!

Another one saved from the ravages of time. Incredible work.

Wow, so cool. Nice work pulling these together!

That’s going to clean up nicely. Great find!