Just a note in case anyone still cares about such things, but there *is* another proto playfield with hand lettering. I have it.

That said, well, we may have done a bad thing on this one, too. I acquired *just* a wired mostly complete proto playfield, but the rest of the game was missing (no idea how that happened). The playfield is VERY beat up on the top side, but the hand lettered inserts are still there. I wanted to save it as best I could, but I just couldn't see playing it more like that.

So I bought ANOTHER TAF that was REALLY beat to shit. I mean the cabinet was bad and it was BLOWN OUT. Chris bought a new cabinet and a new playfield and I had pretty much all new topside parts already anyway. So he took the proto parts off the proto playfield and put them all on a new playfield and nearly built a new game otherwise. So all the red boards and hand made weldments and so forth are in there, but the game is pretty much new otherwise.

And I still have the playfield. I also still have enough parts from the donor game and spares to rebuild it complete enough to make wall art out of. That's always been the plan, I've just never gotten around to it.

I'm not sure what I'd do if I had it to do again. I'm pretty sure I'd look at that playfield and still not want to actually further play it. I really don't think there's any way to protect it from further damage (when stuff starts flaking and peeling...) and not much you can do to make that mylar not look beat to hell, either. So it really shouldn't be played more if it is to be preserved.

If I want to ever get it put together, I should probably take it to Chris when I pick up my next game, though.

--Donnie