What a nice looking game! Timing never seems to work out for me with this table. GLWS

Looks great, how about some pictures with lights off.

Agreed, need more dark ass pics for this 12k TAF with shooter lane wear.

Appears to be a nice machine. Shame the certificate is gone. They definitely built the playfields better on the gold editions, the mansion area held up 100x better on them. Shooter lane doesn't look that bad to me, nothing a little novus and a piece of mylar couldn't solve and protect.

It looks great to me! If I was in the market for a TAF I’d be on my way up!

That should sell quickly! I have a HUO
With 300 plays and turned down $15K

Novice question.

Is there any difference between Gold Edition and Special Edition that is Gold?

Not sure what you mean, there has only been two Addams made. A regular edition in 1992, and Gold edition in 1994 of which only 1,000 were produced. There were quite a few differences in the two, along from the playfield being made from a different manufacturer and slight differences in the color (rug pattern is different, and greens are darker on gold PF), various gold accented PF items, trim, cabinet art, etc. Plaque and certificate were also issued with matching numbers on the gold edition. I have one close in number to the one for sale, and looked for over a year to find a domestic one like this. Only 900-1000 were made for the US, the rest were manufactured for export overseas.

damn a guy can't get no privacy!

On the addams, I kinda consider 3 different versions.

Original blue lightning version that you usually see out there

Then, at the very end of this run they made some standard Addams games with gold lightning. These were standard games, but people try and sell them as golds. They are not. Have the same PF and PF colored caps and bookcase. Silver side rails, again it’s a standard Addams in all regards except the cabinet has gold lightning. But they are actually the most rare version. Not sure on production numbers. You can almost make one of these into a gold, but it won’t have the plaque on the lower right of the cabinet. This is the give away. Most of these standard Addams with a gold cabinet have been dressed up to look like a gold. But again, they are standard production Addams. I am guessing somewhere between 200 and 500 were made this way.

And lastly, IMO, best game ever made. TAFG. Exactly 1,000 of these made

When the Addams that broke some record for games built came down the assembly line. It and every cabinet after had the gold lightning. Originals and TAFG.

LTG : )

Yep, agree that after the record was broken the cabinets were all gold. But only the last 1,000 were official TAFG games. Gold cabinet standard Addams that were not in the last 1,000 were not TAFG Special collectors editions. These in between games did not have the extra ball buy in button, came with standard TAF software, had silver rails, colored pop bumper caps and blue bookcase base, standard color apron and chrome wire form cross ramp.
In fact there were a few Addams built with a gold lightning lower cabinet and a blue lightning upper head, I assume this had to be a mistake from the factory, but they got out. I have not seen one of these in a while though.

I have TAFG 300 on my collection that will never leave. I also have a gold cabinet standard Addams right now that has not been modified at all, still all original style colored components. Not dressed up like a fake gold

Nice looking game for sure!!

Don’t sell it man! I know I would miss it if it left my house

What is the price drop due to the missing certificate? Any consensus?

Some playfields were made by Sun Process, others by Lenc-Smith. Easiest way to spot differences is in the carpet going into the left ramp and in festers head and the mansion. There’s simply more detail in Sun Process playfields, and richer colors. Lenc-Smith Playfields have blue shadowing in festers head, and the carpet detail is washed out almost entirely.

Your game clearly has a Sun Process playfield. Really beautiful example as well. Good luck!

That's a tough one, because it's not an item you can buy after the fact if it's missing. If it were the owners manual, they are expensive but they can at least be purchased, unlike the certificate.

When you pay 5 figures for a machine, some folks are funny about missing documentation. Some folks don't care about it though, so that person would be a buyer here. I do believe that if it had the cert it would be gone quick. There are buyers out there for it regardless. It's a popular machine, I'm thankful to own one.

I don’t have the certificate for mine and It doesn’t bother me at all.

For me it all about the machine and it’s condition.
There are several things you can look at on the actual game to tell if it’s real or not without needing a piece of paper to reinforce that.

I agree that you could go either way on the certificate. On a game with more wear I think it matters less. On games in better condition at the top of the market getting top prices I think it matters more. I have a tafg with the certificate. If gold manuals go for $200 and the certificate can’t be bought since it is serialized to the game I think the certificate on a 12-15k top quality gold is worth at least 1k.

Too add to the fun. They have some differences. Some have all the signatures. Some are missing signatures.

LTG : )

which number do you have on your plaque?

412

0972

LTG : )

738. And I’m missing a few signatures.

I'm missing two as 949.

Mine is missing a few signatures also.

Seems different signatures are missing On each for some reason.

I know it would not be original, but probably not that hard to make a very close looking fake on these. IMO, the value is in the game, not a piece of paper they put inside.

Not that hard to scan one in and change the number. I know, I know.

Here is a shot of mine

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While we are talking pieces of paper that add no value to a pinball, for example this one adds no value, IMO

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I have to disagree. TAFG is an actual collector's item, an LE before the era of LE's. This is an LE of what I believe is the most important pinball machine of all time as TAF laid the groundwork for every game that would follow (rules, modes, toys, etc.), even almost 30 years later. I don't know how much value the certificate adds, but it's an important piece to the whole package of this very collectible machine.

Do I see a rotten dog CPU board?

Since the game only had 600 plays when you took delivery, why would you install a Rottendog CPU? I've never been impressed with their quality...the B/W CPU boards have always been rock solid for me over the years. What happened to the original board?