Recently acquired an Eclipse, sight unseen. One of the few(?) complete models produced (vs kit) in its original cabinet.
Now that someone has seen it, ~3000 USD to restore? Better estimate in the works and pics forthcoming.

I’m reluctant to simply hang the backglass and playfield on the wall and call it quits, scrapping and parting the rest, because I think there were only so few produced (~190 according to ipdb.org). Thoughts? I have this non rational feeling to treat it like an endangered species.

Any Gottlieb System 80 (blackhole/eclipse) experts waiting to revive this machine for a fee or purchase and grant a new lease on life: I'm in Vancouver Canada. Can ship within CND or to Seattle/Portland.
Or simply put it out of its misery?

Pic courtesy of @pinsiders.

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Shop can power it on, but everything is locked. Breaking down the scope of work now and will post over the next week or so.
All OEM excluding a RD MPU80 replacement.
Anyways, its been over 48 hours. I'm too attached now to part it...

Absolutely new to machine repair. I bought this on a lark mostly because it was cheap and I liked the 80's comic book art.
I'll leave it with the techs to sort out the power supply/circuit board/wiring harness issues.
But I'm a mech eng, so I can probably figure out the hardware replacement/repair and the simple solder.

What's it like to play: Just like BH?

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Three months ago bought two machines from craigslist as a project. Graduated quickly from "I'm a mechanical engineer, how hard can it be to fix a pinball machine?", to "WTF is all the wiring and PCB stuff?!?", to "Ok, now I know the difference between a logic probe and leaf switch wrench". Got my Williams Sys 9 SSh fully functional now (with help from Pinside past and present and a tech in Vancouver). And have now quickly decided why have one pinball machine when you can have two. Will start on this one in a couple months.