Got lucky and picked up a beautiful restored example ( See WeatherbyMAG thread). Got about 100 games in. Now I understand!!!

Great shots with both flippers!
Back hands through the spinner!
Strategy: do I take the points through the spinners , go for the triple bonus ? Oh no bonk off the rubber!
EM chimes!
Cabinet and playfield art!
The bonus countdown!

Really cool! This is a game versus today’s encyclopedia rule set tables.

I gotta get another classic Stern
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How could I forget the Kirk post ? What a great little feature.

How do you turn on the 100k for the roaming star?

Wow. That’s cool.

Done!!!!
Now all I got to do is get there! Easier said than done .

Yea, I remember your beautiful collection.

I had a Meteor. Good looking game but no where near Stars in any manner. I will be on the look out for more classic Sterns. I am really getting into the 1980’s Bally and Sterns

Thanks. I can see why it would be such a great tournament game.

Hi,
If you're referring to the pics I posted, it is a restored cabinet. There are pics in the recent restore thread by WeatherbyMAG of what the cabinet looked like prior.

Well thanks, I owe ya a "pop" at some time.

I have two other games bringing back from the dead. They seem so worth while to get "singing" again.

Nice to have a thread talking about an old school game versus the latest "creations"

LOL, mine too!

Have had the chance to hit the moving star for a hundred K a few times. What a great feature! This game has so many really nice nuances that really are pleasing to the player. One cool one is the value of the single pop number to hitting the two upper playfield stars. Having only one pop, but making it so important in progressing though the game...very simple yet very elegant!

Do I rip the the spinner with two lights or do I knock down the last target to get triple bonus? Damn, drano! Only got the double bonus and just missed the score for an extra ball..... how many times has that happened.... .

Chuck, do you mean after collecting an extra ball via score ( in my case 300K) or by progressing through the drop double...trible...extra ball sequence of the drops?

No way Dude..... I am no where near your caliber of player. Maybe one of the most gratifying extra balls in my collection .

Now I have another feature to shoot for. Excellent!

I believe Stern could remake this game today and do very well with it!

Yea, only game in my collection that is on 5 ball. Really only reason is to get that 300K score. Every ball is its own individual game with nothing logic wise carrying over from ball to ball. In a way a precursor to the one ball game with in a game of IronMan for me.

This is the definition of a dedicated Stars owner .

Yep, that was the spinner I was referring to in this case.

LOL. I had a similar night last night, but on one of the last games, the last ball of that game, I hit the roving star ! Put me over the EB score so Extra ball as well. Sweeeeeet! Every ball is its own game .