Quoted from NoQuarters:Awesome - don't let that one go ! 30 years of ownership - wow !
I've had my Super Flite for over 30 years and will not let it go
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Quoted from jrpinball:The best pinhauler around! I've schlepped many a pin in my Chrysler minivans.
Honda one's nice too
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Rollover/gobble hole scoring issue resolved, right flipper back to 100%, all lamps shinning bright, plate glass out, playing like new, thanks JT Amusements. This sunshine is a real beauty. She's tough though, even with a score over 4mil haven't been able to get a rating higher than good. Can't Imagine what a killer game genius rating would take.
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Quoted from Rat_Tomago:25 day no post bump to the top.
I agree too long not to see pics of cool old stuff. Here's some new pics of my old stuff.
20210308_170403 (resized).jpg20210308_170450 (resized).jpgI love Sunshine. Its the most challenging game in my line up.
You have the normal rollovers to unlight, which takes some serious accuracy with the tiny flippers and their wide stance, but also have to avoid the 3 gobble holes. She has a rating system that's shared by only a few other games. She sometimes throws you a bone with the unique spinning backglass disk to randomly get another number on the top rollovers and the gobble holes. There's a rare "star" replay feature that I've only gotten a couple times. Her artwork is gorgeous.
I've only lit all 14 numbers twice. I've only gotten the 2nd highest rating once, never the 1st or 3rd. I've only achieved replays for score twice. But still have the desire to play yet another game.
She's usually the first to get played when powering up the arcade with the hopes of maybe today is when I get over 7mil and the genius rating. Or perhaps this will be the game that I complete all 14 numbers and get a crapload of replays from the "all white numbers special" and the "all red numbers special" alternating with playfield switches. Or this has got to be the game when I max out the lamp scoring and top it off with the star special.
The hole game tilt is something that takes some getting used too. All my other games only can the current ball not the entire game for f@$k sake! Good incentive to NOT tilt.
I think another reason I think it is so great is the appreciation I have for the designer Wayne. Today's machines have entire teams...dozens of people working on them to bring them to the public. Sunshine was one of over 200 games he designed and one of the 167 that went to production. Not only designed but white boarded, wired, tested, tweaked, all by him then sent to the artist. All with 1950s electronics. He came up with the title while listening to "you are my sunshine my only sunshine" playing on the radio as he worked.
I don't think Sunshine will ever leave the collection.
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Quoted from Gotemwill: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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Wow that looks like its in great shape. If it plays like it looks it should definitely be fast. I'll never sell mine.
Quoted from Gotemwill: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%.
I couldn't zoom in enough on your pic to tell, does your machine have a hole between the 1 and 0 on the outlane?
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Quoted from poppapin:Nice feature!! I always like the guys on the backglass jumping from the plane.
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Quoted from jasonspoint28:Wow, looks nice!
And cool playfield layout
20220310_131019 (resized).jpg20220310_131026 (resized).jpgQuoted from Garrett:. Low plays or just well maintained
Much like my Super-Flite, it was in the same home for 40 some years. The rubbers were extremely rotten and it didn't look like it was cleaned since the 80s. It's got some plays on it so I imagine for the half a decade it was in the wild it must have been a popular title.
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Quoted from Garrett:A simple artwork change to soccer
Soccer has a similar layout with advancing to goals. A few years earlier though.
Nice machine even with pointy people. It must have been a common thing in the early 70s
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Bye bye busted posts, torn dry rotted rubbers, dirty out hole & ball trails, a box worth of burt out bulbs...
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It had to be something like that or just a crap batch. My Bon Voyage has the same posts just the year before and none are cracked. I also had a Captain Fantastic from the year later and no cracks.
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