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There seems to be many of these around. There was a very nice one at the recent York, PA show.
I bought one for $60 maybe a year or so ago. It was in decent condition, but not nearly as good as yours or the one at York.
Sometimes you'll find them retrofitted with flippers. Otherwise, the gameplay isn't terribly inspiring, but it's a good looking machine.
Yikes! Your comment about the head not folding down made me cringe.
I've come across more than one game over the years whose head was torn off by someone thinking that it just folds down!
Nice find, and interesting provenance.
Congratulations on your first EM, but don't judge EM gameplay by this game. Even in it's day it wasn't state of the art, but United sure had some good looking games.
The button on the bottom is for knocking off credits. These games did not award replays for credits. You were paid off by the establishment, then the credits were knocked off until it was back to zero for the next player.
I have to find a link that I will post next.
A Pinsider named Steve Fury lovingly restored a similar machine; a United "Singapore". He posted a very well made video on YouTube, documenting the restoration and demonstrating the gameplay.
Quoted from RyanStl:Thanks, it was a very pleasant surprise the kids don't care at all about how basic the game is (these aren't all mine). My youngest prefer the Mexico to Doctor who!
That's so cool!
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