Have a problem? HECK NO! I will probably drag Mystery Castle out again because of it. Or, maybe if I suddenly discover a vast well of time, linked NBAFB (single game isn't rare, linked is) or Alvin G Football head to head. Or, if I just decide to be totally crazy, Viza War.

Although with the exception of NBAFB, where do they fall? Duhn-duhn-duhn.

Viza War couldn't win though. There is a hold someone cut directly below the cash box so it drops the quarters onto the floor, and it only plays by sticking a quarter in. Weird game, that one. It is only still with me because I pile tools on it.

Would be nice if these were in a certain area or row. Maybe I will bring the proto BSD I picked up

Im up for it, and as long as things go right, Ill be bringing Goin Nuts. Im not wanting to do this to win anything, that doesnt matter. But if we do something like this, it can ONLY make a show better. I really want to do something like this at Expo, but with as great of a show that Dan puts on, MGC is worty of being the test show for it.

Anyone that brings a game to qualify for this, I guarantee that you will get free beer Saturday night. How can you beat that!!!

But im sure we will disagree with what is considered rare, so lets not make it about prizes being won. Maybe say that to be considered rare, that it has to be in IPDB, and that it cant be a current Bootique pin that has hopes of being produced.

Hilton, why dont you edit your post to maybe say the games that people are intending to bring, this way others can see what will be there, which might get some other games to be brought out if the showing is that good. I dont think that there is any reason to keep a game secret hoping to surprise someone, I think that this is all in good fun to just get some really cool/obscure things out in the public.

You know what im hoping to bring

Goin Nuts and/or Qberts Quest. Really would like them both to be there side by side

That's the longest shot to make it. Not just does it require me shopping two games, I need a boardset for the second machine... It could happen though...

Hilton I'm-thinking about bringing bone busters.not sure if this considered rare?

what color paint will be used? <eyes handful of quarters>

-c

I can bring my Fastbreak, I think I already programmed it for link play (have the rom for it)..... The only caveat is that you have to have yours setup mean and super fast like mine....

The rare game thing is going to be tough..... Defining rare is kind of tough to do. I would define rare as anything under 100 produced. Not sure what others would define rare as.

For the record, whenever you sell this you need to contact me first. I have been looking for one practically ever since I played one on the Big Red Boat back in 1999 or so.

I'm not looking to pay stupid money for it, and as everyone knows I don't exactly have room for it, so... yeah. But knowing that I'll have a crack at one eventually will make me stop looking for them for a while now. Maybe I can actually buy a house first.

I need to shop mine badly. It's currently in MGC storage, which is a giant disaster. We need to do a cleaning day BADLY.

Sounds like fun. You may want to set some basic definitions of "rare". Production games only, or open to re-themed or newly designed/created one-of-a-kind games?

Also, rare EM's may not have a slot for "quarters"

I like that. One thought is you may want think about the quarter idea. I like it, but it might be difficult to pull off. I always like the little vote sheets for something like that.

I'm not opposed to adding this to the regular "vote sheets" and making it into a "Rare" category and putting a little definition on there. We can talk logistics though, but we can make something fair that works

You should get a few. They can be amazing. I strongly suggest 4 Square as a game where the ruleset is amazingly advanced, and if you are playing for points, you have to shoot so carefully for high scores. It's easily one of my top 10 games.

What about a shadow with a playfield reworked by hep? Can't be to many of those.

Hopefully I can get one other game done in time, but I dont think that it will follow my idea f a rare game. But i happen to have been a contestant on the show "Wheel of Fortune" a few months ago. The day i found out, i made a call and bought the pin. I am going to customize the game in some unique ways that will make the game special to me, but it will not mean a thing to others

Plans are.
Using pinball browser,
change the names on the game to the three names from the show i appeared on
change the speech of calling out names to sound bytes from the show i was on

Modify the playfield plastic that shows the names of the players to match my show

Have the bobble heads resculpted to match the players of my show, and painted to match the clothing

Add an LCD screen somewhere to show clips from the show i appeared on.

I have no intentions of ever getting rid of the game, so the modifications wont hurt the value, but it is all mods that can be reveresed if needed.

The hard part about this is that my show does not air till next month, and it happened so fast that i dont remember the names of the other contestants, so i cant start any of it till after its on air so i can get that information

Troy

Not for sale. One of my all time favorite games

I dont think that this will be really an issue. This is all started by me challenging Hilton to do something special for Expo next year, and it escalated to this. But it is all in fun and I know to me, it doesnt mean anything about winning or not.

With all the fuss about expo not having a great selection or number of games, its just something we think would be fun and get more games, and hopefully some very rare games out to be seen.

Its all about making the show fun!!! that is all that matters, plus remember, you get free beer at the saturday after hours party if you do bring a game

I'll bring my HEP restored Capcom Kingpin? Is that rare enough for you?

Lol

It would be cool if there was a way to let people know why a game may be considered rare. I know that I have seen/played games in the past that were unique in some way, but I was clueless at the time. I'm not sure how that could be done without clogging up the room with people reading about games instead of playing them?

Sorry. I thought you would realize I was joking about the HEP Kingpin. Please don't thumbs down me ...

Why Gottlieb and B/W for DMD? No love for capcom or Alvin G? What about Spinball? These categories leave out a lot of very interesting machines which seems to defeat the purpose?

I just sold the two rarest games I own, I500 and Airborne.

Edit: Forgot about SC. That's rarer than both of those.

I'm a little confused by the categories - I'd be more likely to drop one of these quarters into a Wheel of Fortune, Vacation America, or any Zaccaria on the planet than any Bally/Williams or Gottlieb Premier title.

It also seems weird to split pre-DMD Gottlieb out from pre-DMD Bally and Williams - as far as I know they weren't merged until something like 1990, so pre-DMD titles are a lot more likely to be either Bally or Williams, independently.

The only pinball rarity I own wouldn't work for this challenge, as it is not an actual pinball machine, but it would fit right in with the gaming theme of the whole show.

It's the only boxed example of the Entex Black Knight handheld electronic pinball game known to exist!
Entex-BlackKnightPinballBox.jpg

Oh, yeah, I forgot, I also have another rare pinball toy, Parker Brothers' Drac. Two, actually, both boxed, one still sealed!

Hilton,
Why not just have "X" number of prizes, and just give prizes to that number of games. Whichever games gets the most painted quarters gets first prize, and go down. You have a few prizes set up on a table and first place gets its choice, and then go on down. Shouldnt matter what manufacturer. You get to many categories and confusion, it takes the fun out. Just plain and simple, make it easy.

ps, if you have any suggestions to how to make this friendly cometition better, please say. we have about 6 months to get it right

I guess technically Tron LE would be the rarest game in my collection, although I doubt that's the sort of thing Hilton had in mind.

What if that Bally/Williams or Gottlieb was one of a kind? I think it might make sense to lessen the cats to make it simpler like

BEST RARE non-DMD
BEST RARE DMD
BEST RARE EM or non-traditional game