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Brian is an awfully nice guy. Had the pleasure of meeting him at Expo in 2000...14...I believe? Anyhow, we exchanged some correspondence shortly thereafter. I'll shoot him a line to see what's the word on this machine.

In related news, that upper playfield looks like complete insanity. Ha-ha! Would love to try it.

Here's what Brian had to say:

"Good timing for the MA game, a lot of people have been asking about that one. I had kind of moth-balled it for a while because there were some game play issues that I thought couldn't be fixed. On the positive side, the pop bumper between the flippers actually worked really well, and was the best (and very fun) part of the game. It was more the flipper and ramp angles that weren't working.

But, after doing a lot of flipper development for my wide-body Steampunk Royale game (I remember you weren't thrilled with the theme, but give it a chance!), I realized that there was actually a way to fix the layout.

So, I'm in the process of re-booting that game and hopefully getting a new playfield cut this week. But will still take a while to populate, trying not to scavenge off of the old playfield. Would like to have it intact for historical reference...

If you're interested, here's a link to the Steampunk game updates:

https://www.facebook.com/SteamPunkRoyale/

...and here's a recent photo of the MA game being re-worked:

https://www.facebook.com/howtobuildapinballmachine/photos/a.504056909698381.1073741828.498124213624984/890002761103792/?type=3&theater

I'm probably not going to make it to Chicago this year, but the FAST Pinball guys are bringing my "Tattoo Mystique" game for their booth. Nothing new, it was at the show last year as well."

+1 for limericks.

Agreed. (Thanks for posting.)

On our way home from our first center-pop purchase. image (resized).jpg

Any other guesses?

He-hee! I figured this one might throw you.

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Everything on this machine is ridiculously clean, save for the baconized plastics. They are, indeed, reversed because if they were installed correctly, the curling under would catch the switches. So, a couple plastics will need to be reproduced, but that shouldn't be a big deal. Outside of that, it's fully functional. The seller went over it with a fine-tooth comb and even included a typed list of everything he did in the process. REALLY happy with the new acquisition.

Thanks, Dennis. We're havin' a blast with it.

I just scanned mine. They're not great, but I plan on retouching the art and printing new ones eventually. That won't happen immediately, but I'm hoping sooner than later. Feel free to PM me in another month or so to see if anything has changed.

P.S. For anyone interested, I just posted an exhaustive picto write-up about the acquisition last weekend:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/1956-gottlieb-score-board-pick-up

Have a good one, guys!

Neat!

Attention Middle Pop Thread!

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I recently stumbled across a game that I'm PREH-TEE sure hasn't been mentioned here before. Please welcome Millionaire to the middle-pop club.

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No, no, no, no. Not THAT Millionaire...THIS Millionaire:

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Evidently there is an early solid-state (1977) Millionaire put out by Sega, complete with middle pop-bumper. I'll save you the trouble and just post the IPDB link:

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4561

...which is pretty interesting if you read through all the gameplay mechanics. Lots of unique features on this one. Potentially more information if you can read Japanese:

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...anyone?