OK I believe I'm ready to let this one go. I have Revenge From Mars serial number 1. This is a prototype machine that had some minor playfield artwork and lighting differences vs. the production version.

A little history on this game: I worked at Williams Bally/Midway from around 1994 until Midway got out of the coin-op business for good in 2001. This game was out on field test for a few months (I forget how long but it wasn't more than 6) and then when they pulled the game and brought it back it went to me and has been in my home ever since. It is in excellent condition and works 100 percent (I will take some photos of this later this week when I have some time). I also have an extra NOS original monitor for it, a spare blank motherboard for the PC and two NOS sheets of pin2k glass.

I'd entertain trade or trade/cash offers for people who can do an in-person deal. I'm located in the Chicago suburbs. Games I'm interested in are pretty limited. Spiderman, LOTR, or Stern Batman Dark Knight are the top of my want list but I'm open to offers of other games/cash depending on game and condition. I'd entertain a game plus some money deal for the RFM or depending on the offer, game condition, etc. I'd probably be enticed to just sell it outright too if the offer was right. In the end I'd need to walk out of whatever the deal with at least some cash as I'm trying to raise funds for something very important. Obviously I value this machine higher than your typical production RFM. Local pickup only. I'm in no position to be able to deal with shipping, packing, etc.

I will post photos once I can take some, hopefully by the weekend and can make a proper FS/FT post. I figured I'd put the feelers out for anyone who may be interested in this unique machine.

Bump for the Tuesday lunch crowd.

I have a rough idea in my head but part of the purpose of putting the feelers out there is to see what kind of interest there is in this unique item and kind of let the market decide.

With the extras (glass and NOS monitor) and the rarity factor I was thinking of a value of about $5000 or somewhere close to that. I will take some photos and post them to this thread on Sunday.

Yeah we don't have any snow here yet so a road trip is always an option for people before the weather goes to crap.

Again I'm open for game+cash deal for it depending on the game and condition (and the less the LED's/mods the better).

While that is a neat game, it doesn't have the staying power for me to warrant its spot in my limited real estate in the basement.

The three games I really want are Stern Batman Dark Knight, LOTR and Spiderman. If anyone has any nice/HUO and preferably unmodded one of those.

As for splitting up the game from the extras - I'd prefer not to but if the offer or trade was right I'd consider it.

Pix coming Sunday afternoon (my first available day to go down and snap them)

OK, I finally had a chance to snap some photos of the game. Here they are. The cabinet has some dings and the decals around the legs are wrinkled. For the truly anal the game could use re-decaling though the artwork is all still good and is not at all faded either.

Note the artwork difference on the playfield - some of the wording of the modes was changed in the production model. The modes were also on opposite sides on the proto and before it went out on test they modified the lamp board so the lights would match what was displayed on screen when you were choosing a mode at the start of the game.

I didn't snap any photos of the extra NOS monitor or the extra glass but they are included with the game as part of the deal to whoever trades for or buys it. It currently has software version 1.4 in it. It was recently cleaned and new balls were installed a few months ago and since I installed them it probably hasn't had more than a dozen plays if that.

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Funny you should ask that as when I took those photos a friend of mine was over and I said "I wonder how long it will take someone to ask about that machine".

When i worked at WMS, a friend/co-worker of mine had a fully wired Getaway playfield that was sitting in his office for years. When they made that game, a handful of playfields had the inserts reversed for "lock" and "speed millions" so the lock was orange and the speed millions green. This wasn't discovered until the playfields were fully built and then they were pulled. It had zero plays on it and aside from the dust on it, was as perfect as it gets. I just had to re-rubber it as the original rubber was starting to dry up and crack. I told my friend I would buy that off of him if he could find a cabinet to put it in so we could make it into a fully functioning machine. We found an empty gophers cabinet and a jackbot head and asked if we could have it as it was sitting in some room collecting dust. Another coworker donated a translite and a CPU board to me. I took it all home and then a few sundays and a few pizzas later he had wired it up and had it working. I had to cut a hole to mount the shifter. It at one time had a ST:TNG speaker panel but I traded that to someone for a real Getaway one. So it is my "NoGoodJackAway". Someday I should get some Getaway decals and redo the cabinet so it looks proper, then all it would be missing is the beacon on the top (which I cant' really fit anyway cuz of my low ceiling so I don't care about it not being there). It is quite the conversation piece though so if I never get around to finding decals and applying them I won't mind.

It is a proto and serial number 1 so it was the first one. There's artwork differences mainly in the inserts, wording, and order of which they appear. Also a couple spotlights and maybe a couple of lamps were added in production that aren't on the protos.

To update, I'd be happy to either sell this (best offer - see original posts) or trade or some combination of trade/sale. Games I'm interested in is pretty limited (HUO or super nice LOTR, or Spidey red or Batman Dark Knight or the new Star Trek Pro) but I'd entertain other offers for nice game/cash combination. Also the less LED/mods the better as I'm just going to yank them all out anyway. A game/cash deal is most appealing to me because I need to raise some cash for something very important that is not pinball or hobby related.

I don't have a receipt for it, I don't recall ever getting a receipt for any game I got through my former employer as it wasn't a normal sale and getting games was an occasional perk. Anyone who has been around long enough, especially on RGP can vouch for my story and I can certainly have some of my former coworkers who I'm still friends with also back up the origin of this game lest anyone think I'm full of shit. The game was slated to go to one of the design team and said person didn't want it and it went to me so the the history of the game was that it was out on field test for a couple of months or so, then it sat in a room at WMS unplugged and not played, and then it went to my house where it has been in my basement ever since.

Bump

Was this shifter different than the one on Getaway? I've never heard of it before until now. If anyone has one of those I'd imagine George Gomez might.

Regarding my game - I'd also take a fully working Tron arcade game (the original one, not discs of tron) as partial trade towards the RFM. I'd also entertain a nice older pin as partial trade too depending on the game and its condition.