Trust me, LEDs. That game is naturally DARK AS F... it NEEDS MORE LIGHT.

Get the good ones that don't strobe, but stick with warm white, as bright as you can get them. An extremely fast well playing Hurricane is pretty fun. I've given up trying to find one...one guy up in Frisco had one but sold it, pretty sure it did not stay local. Was the fastest example of the game I've ever played.

Calling dibs on the next cheap pin too.

What's up with the sticker on the coin door? Were those stickers put on from factory? Good looking game/find.

I vote tasteful LED's. Don't make it look like a clown threw up on it even though there are clowns in it.
Sweet ass looking game. Very cool find.
Congrats!

SHes a bute Clark

Everyone to their own but IMHO Led's do not look good on the older games. You are a very lucky man; I know hurricane is or was not as popular as comet but, I loved this game and you will too!

If you want to buy a Home use only Comet to go with this let me know.

It's obviously not a Home Use Only game - it's got fade all over, it's got that arcade sticker and wear at the coin slots from thousands of quarters (clear as day worn to the metal on the left slot), and of course the telltale dirty fingerprints underneath the cabinet under the coin door from moving, service, and general on-location stuff. Looks like there's wear on that A insert of PALACE as well on the playfield. The game obviously spent some time on location, and that's just from looking at these low-res photos.

Not trying to piss in anybody's cornflakes - it's a nice looking game. But this will save the OP the abuse he's going to get when he tries to advertise it as HUO when he decides to sell it.

I'd skip the LEDs personally but it's a matter of taste.

Put the stickers on for an arcade feel??

Tag Team is the better game, IMO, though I'm not sure many will agree with me!

No no no. Buy from Comet Pinball for LEDs man

I explained that to you

1) nobody would ever put that sticker on a HUO game. That's an op sticker and didn't come from the factory. Seems unlikely a homeowner would actually go through the trouble of obtaining that sticker and placing it on their brand new, $3,500 (or more if they bought it retail) HUO game.

2) there are dirty finger prints underneath the cabinet - this comes from dirty gloves, dirty hands, and dirty techs, moving and monkneying around with games. You will never see that telltale "dirt zone" underneath the cab at the front that all routed games have on an HUO game.

3) there is CLEARLY coin slot wear - this is wear the paint on the coin door has been worn away from fingers and quarters entering the coin slot. You'd never see this on a HUO game.

4) there is fade on all three sides of your cabinet. One side is completely faded, the other two are slightly faded. Again a pretty sure sign of a route game.

Like I said, I'm just trying to save you the trouble. One day you will put this for sale on pinside as HUO with better pictures and the jackals are going to pounce on you like you are freshly killed carrion.

I can't tell you how many route games I've been sold by homeowners who said "it's home use!" Most of the time these people aren't lying, they just don't know any better. Their dad bought it 20 years ago from a gameroom store and they don't realize it was in a bar at one point, or something like that. That's pinball and all of us who buy and sell games a lot are familiar with this kind of thing.

Nice, but agree with Levi its not HUO. Had a buddy who had a true huo. It did have fade on one side from sitting next to a window, but no sticker, no wear on the coin slots.

Also, bear in mind that huo does not mean mint. I have a huo pistol poker. Manual is still sealed in the bag and was not told its story until after I paid for it. (Guy bought it from his friend's father who bought it new) Inside is clean, but the cab has scuffs and looks like it was near a wall that was painted as there is paint on the cab that shouldn't be. End of the day, does it really matter? Nope.

I once looked at a HUO T2 with pictures coming out of the box and it had that orange sticker installed.

The factory would. Pretty sure those came stuck to the coin doors already. Williams was REALLY trying to get ops to set higher game pricing... BK2K had a bunch of 50cent/game propaganda with the machine, and they switched to those preinstalled coindoor stickers at the beginning of the 90s.

Eh, if the homeowners have movers move the games for them, you'll get fingerprints.

Homeowners are just as likely as ops to stick games near windows. They don't know any better (the ops don't care)

Ahh, here you go. This is the only "definite non-HUO" evidence you listed, but it's damning. Homeowners might want to use games as piggybanks, but not to THAT extent!

Asshole!

Asshole!

Asshole!

Never mind!

Yeah, both my T2 and my Hurricane had that big orange sticker on the coin door.

OK I believe you guys. Even a grizzled vet like me can learn something new.

Next thing you know you guys will be trying to tell me that the factory installed all those Hasp brackets on AFM and Monster Bash!

Not that it matters at this point but it still doesn't square with the seller's story that "we put it on there for that arcade feel!"

On pinballnews.com there was some event about 3to 5 yrs back, where durring the celebration of the new pinball exhibit (some country outside of the USA,possibly Europe) the participants opened up a NIB Hurricane. I can't find it right now, but I was able to pull this flyer that has the orange coin sticker on it.
I'd go with a warm white LED
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The sticker was slapped on at factory from about Diner to Addams Family for domestic shipments. Stopped when games started to go above .50 cents, but came with a sheet of Orange stickers to choose pricing. I still have a few sheets of the stickers. I'll find them and post a pic.

Congratulations on the Hurricane! I love this game. It's probably my favorite of the older machines. It's an amusement park under glass. The lights are beautifully integrated into the clown's face and hat. The ramps and sounds are fun. There was a nice example of this game for sale at TPF last year for a reasonable price and I sort of regret not buying it.

Have you changed the belt? At this age the belt will need to be replaced regardless of overall condition of the game.

Very clean pin

Too late dude. That nylon band is almost 30 years old and the only way to fix it is to replace it. You can clean it all you want it's not gonna fix it. It's not slipping because it's dirty, it's slipping because that belt was installed during the G H Bush Administration.

Game looks very nice! If it weren't for the coin slot wear I'd buy the HUO claims.

Wow, great looking game

Sweet. Obviously very lightly routed.

Do a nice job of painting coin door slot wear and stick with HUO.

I'm sure it's a Diamond plate field. Nice looking pin, goes great with LED lighting.

Aren't they all?

The 2 cone bumpers in front of the dunk tank switch are upside down.

Use a large white rubber for Ferris Wheel not the clear, had the same problem. And all Hurricanes are Diamondplate, also pop bumpers do not have lighting.

There is an adjustment for the Ferris wheel belt tightness. See if that works for now as a temporary fix but if it's all the way out you are going to have to change the belt.Most of the upper playfield will need to come off to change it. It was the first thing I had to do when I got my Hurricane.

I've heard that before and wonder why no pop cap lighting? My Hurricane has lighting in pop caps, something special? Or previous owner fixed that? My project Hurricane also has lite pop caps.