Quoted from Jesterfunhouse:

Here are some pictures of my Apollo 13 after I shopped it out this past winter. Used Comet LED's and Titan Competition Rings... "We're going to the MOON!"
...Uhhh thats a negative Jim...(I sold it )

Quoted from Tickerguy:

Mike, tell me what you need and I'll shoot the pictures for you.
Mancave, the only real "issue" with the game is the 8-ball lock switch (to sense the balls); that strip switch is expensive if yours doesn't work properly, and it must or the game will get confused. It doesn't fail *often*, but if it does then bend over and grab your ankles.
The moon grab magnet also occasionally has problems but it's mostly due to wire chafe which is addressable without too much trouble. Mine has been ok.
The other issue to be aware of is that the factory used lower-capacity switching transistors on the flasher circuits (this is a common practice and somewhat defensible in that popping the channel beats a fire or more-serious damage in the event of a short) and there is one 4-gang flash circuit (2 on pf, 2 in backbox) that is (far) over the rating for that transistor on that specific channel. Mine was blown when I got it but there was no short; I uprated it and stuck LED flashers in the backbox and have had no further problems.
On the good side replacing the RAM and batteries with a NVRAM is about a 30 second job with no soldering required. IMHO that's a must as alkaline damage is one of those things that will kill games dead and on the way out cause all sorts of very hard-to-diagnose problems.
It is a very difficult game in terms of shot placement and such, and "rewards" a miss with a drain a high percentage of the time. It was quite a while after I bought mine before I managed to get a score on the board; while it looks deceptively simple ("shoot whatever flashes") it's quite hard to actually score on. I like the game; it doesn't have the layering depth of some but at this point it's likely to remain in my collection on a permanent basis.

Quoted from pigeonfarmboy:

I'd like to discuss this "over-powered" VUK more. Is this a problem specific to A13 or are there other DE/Sega titles that do this? I'll definitely be playing with either a different coil or modifying this one as it drives me nuts listening to this thing while playing.