Woodbury, MN
So like most people I have gotten my fair share of good deals on CL. I have gotten 1 free arcade game, a Journey which was very nice, but never a pin...until yesterday. I stopped looking at CL very much nowadays since the deals seem to be few and far between...and more importantly because I have no money thanks to the new game room. So I am super lucky I even saw this, and even more lucky that I ended up with it.
Anyway, I am at work yesterday and I go out to CL once in the afternoon just for kicks to see what's new. First thing I see is "FREE PINBALL MACHINE". I look to see what at it is and when it was posted figuring it was probably bogus or a table top pin. Turns out it was a Gottleib Atlantis that doesn't fully work and it was only posted less than 10 minutes ago and the poster is less than 10 minutes from my work. It had multiple pictures and looked legit. I shoot him an e-mail with my phone number saying I am a couple minutes away and can be right over. Figure it is long gone and don't think anything of it. My phone rings about 15 minutes later and it is the guy. He says I was the first one to contact him and I can have it if I want it. I jump in the car and cruise over there thinking someone would screw me out of it the whole time I was driving. I get there and it is still there and the guy is super cool. He played it as a kid and is cleaning out his moms house and just wants it gone since it doesn't fully work. The guy and me start talking about it and he says he had tons of other e-mails about it after mine, but he didn't respond to them because I showed up like I said I would and I wanted it. Very refreshing to see someone stick to their word and I told him I appreciated it.
So I started breaking the game down, had to drill out the back lock, but the coin door was open. Thing is SUPER nice. Backglass is PERFECT. After opening the head, the original schematics were still masking taped to the head and had never even been opened. Outside of the game was dirty, but the playfield is awesome, everything there and no broken plastics and the cabinet and head aren't damaged. I popped the playfield and saw some broken wires, so it is obvious why the game doesn't work fully, but it is complete and super clean. This guy's mom had had the game for well over a dozen years and it has just sat for some time now. We pulled 8 quarters out of the cabinet and not one of them was newer than 1975. I didn't have a truck, so I called a few people to see if they would help me out and finally got a friend to come over with a pickup. I put the head in my car and my buddy brought the cab to his house. I am picking it up tonight or tomorrow. I am super stoked at this pickup. Wedgeheads aren't my thing since it was before my time (I was born in 1976), but I have another buddy who loves them and he said that this game was one of the most desired wedgeheads and super collectible. Here is the only pic I have right now, but I will take more when I get the game back together.
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Breda
Beauharnois
