Found my Fathom last November. There was an estate auction listed on CL and it mentioned 2 pinball machines. Do further investigation on the auction company's website to discover the machines were a Speakeasy and a Fathom. I have to go out of town that weekend and contact a good friend of mine to see if he would go to the auction and check it out. He looked it over and called me back to discuss thoughts on bids. Ended up pulling this out of an old lady's basement for only $800 and a lifetime of gratitude and favors to my friend and his fiancee (who went with him).

Here are some pics (1 before pic and the rest after)

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Yeah, I'm not really a big fan of most after market toppers either, but this one takes the original artwork and makes good use of it. It kind of works into the backglass and makes it look as if what's going on in the backglass is happening under the boat/topper.

Yeah, I did the old warm whites in my bg and they look pretty good. I decided to put incandescents in the "game over," "tilt", "high score," etc. sections, since the LEDs are so bright they fill in the rubber barriers and project boxes on the backglass and don't just make the words stand out. I tried retros, but they did the same thing, just too bright to be contained.

Man I wish there was a bulb over the upper right display to light up the rest of that sea nymph's tail. It's a real dead light area. I'm thinking of adding modding mine and adding one there.

Flash Gordon may be the best one ball game ever made. There, I said it.

Also, congrats mof!!!