What's the serial number? That might help to identify where in the run it would be.

It doesn't have the metal rails on the Path of Adventure, so that should tell us a little more as well.

Lamp board behind the POA doesn't match the one on my sample game. Interesting.

It might be early, but not 'sample' early.

edit: I looked again, and it does match. Disregard.

Mine is an early production run (re import from Germany), had lost plastic and when I checked the serial # against the online serial database it would of been the 2nd youngest on there. I know my lost plastic is lit from the back but unfortunately I have to catch a plane here momentarily and won't be able to verify the way it is lit until Jan 2nd. This being said, the bottom one looks more familiar to me than the top.

According to the green parts book (page 5-57) the first 500 games had the lost plastic lighting board and lost plastic. That looks like a factory spec board...

Does the game have the stainless steel guides on the Path of Adventure?

QSS

I think that is just prototypes.. Never production. Whereas lost plastic made it into early production but then they stopped.

Check to see if there is a buy-in button on the front of the cab. Early production IJ's did not have it.

Mine does; who knows if it got added though

sample games had stainless POA rails.

Kerry Stair was going to make a few sets of repros... and I think there was an issue with getting them made. Don't know if he ever made any or not.

Arcadia,

I've got the same in my IJ. It has an "original" lost plastic and the same lighting board. Here is a pretty terrible picture, but it's the only one I have hanging around.

More info on my IJ is here

http://www.aaarpinball.com/IndianaJones/ij.htm

... Altan

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I don't think so

Not really. If it were a true sample with the stainless POA and playfield art differences, it might have a slight premium above a similar condition regular production game.

Hey Altan, would you mind snapping a picture of where the wiring harness from the back panel light board runs to the underside of the playfield? I suspect it connects to a nearby GI lamp, but would like to make the harness I fabricate for my light board match the original as much as possible. Thanks!

The serial number would tell you the most information about when in the production any game was made. Parts can always be changed, for instance - skewing the approximation of when the game was made. Why not share the serial number with us?

http://www.ipsnd.net/View.aspx?id=1267

Sure. Sorry for the delay (and a little thread hijack, perhaps). But I figured someone else might be interested in the info.

The cable from the light PCB to the GI bulb is about 13". I've attached some pics here. The first pic is the light board, the second shows the GI connector that the light board's wire is soldered onto. The 3rd show the length of the cable (about 13")

... Altan

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