I love this thread! I have a Williams Bonanza and a CCM Twin Rifle. I had to fabricate parts to get both of them working. Bonanza works 100%. The Twin Rifle works except for the electronic gun sound. If anyone can send me a schematic of the sound board I would appreciate it. The Bonanza is the best gun game I have played or seen. I really enjoy it. The Twin Rifle is very fun also with 2 people but not as fun when shooting alone. The hardest part was replacing a missing gun stock on the Twin Rifle. Finding a gun stock from a real gun and doing a lot of drilling/cutting and wood filler to get the stock to work with the game was a lot of work to make sure I got all the holes right and everything perfect. The Bonanza uses a 4 track tape player instead of an 8 track player. It needed a little work to get it working but it works great. Here are the pics.

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I'll try and take some detailed pictures in the next couple of days of everything I did to repair my 2 gun games. Another tip that might help people - I was missing the lower horse target on my Bonanza. The game has an image of all the targets on the front of the game to show how much each one will score. So I took a picture of that image and removed all the color in a photo editor program. That way it only had the black outlines of the image. I printed it out and colored it in with florescent markers so that it would glow under the black light. Then I reversed the image and did it again. I glued the images to some poster board and tape them together and it looks great. So if your missing a target in one of your games and can't find it then get a picture of it from your game or have someone send you one and follow the above instructions. It works great and looks good.

I'll take pics of all my repairs and descriptions and post them in the next few days as it may help other people with their repairs.

Great collection Ninja!

BTW... A little off topic. Has anyone ever seen a MCI Flying Ace or the smaller version MCI Ace from the early 1970's? I used to play these 2 games all the time back in the day and have been searching for one for years. I would love to buy one or if nothing else just see a video of one in action again. I think they made another version of the game called Red Baron as well.

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=arcadedb&id=95&image=3
http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/mciace.htm

I have seen prices range from $300-$2500. But they don't come up for sale very often and the lower end priced ones are very hard to find. I would say $800-$1200 is average. They can be a pain to get working due to lack of available parts. But like an EM pinball, once you have it working it seems to run fine as long as you play it regularly. If you leave them sit then they will get gummed up again.

See my post 2 above yours

There were some made that shoot light beams instead of using the stylus.

Looks like they are having a good time! Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

I used a remington 550 on my CCM Twin Rifle. It took some drilling and cutting but it works good and looks great.

I bought a CCM Twin Rifle that was missing one of the guns. I used a remington 550 gun stock to replace it. I had to do some drilling and cutting but it worked nice. Search EBAY for the remington stock but be patient. They come up for $20 or so if you wait for one.

I have a Twin Rifle I put on EBay yesterday

ebay.com link: Chicago Coin Twin Rifle arcade gun game

This site will tell you a lot more about them but doesn't give values.

http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/#guns

I just posted this in another EM gun game thread thinking it was this thread. So I'm going to double post. I have a pretty rare MCI Blue Max from 1971. It wasn't working at all when I got it. After a lot of work I have it working about 80% now. Here are some pics.

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Just picked this up last week... MCI Ace.

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Yep. That is the one. It's in great condition.

Cool looking game. I've never heard of it before. I'm glad you saved it from the dump. Hope you get it working. Be sure to post a video of it if you do. I would love to see it in operation.

Good save. I have one and I think it is one of the better gun games. I've played quite a few and owned a few of them and this one is one of the best I've seen/played. I'll try and answer some of your questions off the top of my head.

I'm pretty sure there is a spring in there. I'll take mine apart and let you know for sure and take some pics.

This only flashes when the dynamite in the mine is lit and you hit it.

If I remember right you have to open the back panel and there are some latches that keep it in place. I will verify later and let you know.

If you have any questions I will be glad to help but I can be a little slow to respond. I am pretty busy with work and home and just don't have a lot of spare time right now. But I will do my best to help. Congrats on the find. Once you get it working I'm sure you will really enjoy it.

Sorry it took so long to get back on this. There are 2 levers in the back of the game on the ceiling. Pull the 2 levers back and you will be able to remove the back glass.

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I don't believe there is an instruction manual. There is only schematics. Companies didn't start making instruction manuals for arcade games until they started going solid state.

Boy am I stupid. Your right. I checked and I even have the manual. I'll scan it in for anyone that needs one.

Here is the link for the Bonanza Instruction Manual

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10831

Very nice gun games!

Got my MCI Blue Max from 1971 working over the weekend. Here is a video of it playing. The camera kept picking up a white light on the screen that you don't see when playing the game. So it is a little hard to see the planes.

Looks like a fun game. Congrats on getting it.

It wasn't too hard but I wasn't able to do some stuff I would like to do. It has a disk with the plane images on it and it is in bad shape. Also the lenses are in bad shape. I got them looking as best I could but you see a lot of spots on the screen that don't show in the video because I wasn't able to get the disk and lenses in the best of shape and can't find replacements. But the rest wasn't bad to get running. I just bought an MCI Flying Ace which is what I have always wanted instead of the Blue Max. It is a much bigger version of the same game. I pick it up in 2 weeks. Once I get it running I'll be selling the Blue Max. I never thought I'd be able to find a Flying Ace. It is my grail game. But I don't want to get rid of the Blue Max unless I'm sure I can get the Flying Ace running. But I would suggest getting the Red Baron if its available. If you know how to fix EM games you shouldn't have too much of an issue getting it running and I would be glad to help with any questions. Just make sure the disk and lenses are usable. The rest can be fixed without too much trouble. And I saw a thread where a killer shark game is being restored that is very similar to this game and that guy remade the disk for the shark game. I just don't have the tools or talent to do that.

A video of my MCI Flying Ace

I used to have a ton of them from playing it as a kid. I played it about every day. I wish I still had them all. But I did get about 10 of them from Ebay for my game. Flippers.com has them as well for sale. I think I'll pick up a few more from them.

Great save! Good luck with the restore.

That is very cool!

Check pinball resource pbresource.com. Be sure to contact them and not just check their web site. They have an inventory that is much larger than what is listed on the web.

Edit: I thought you said coil. But you said relay. Removing my recommendation.

I'm not familiar with that game so can't tell you what is normal. But to stop the noise, for the control unit there should be a spring that will cause the plate to move when the coil is turned off. Try adjusting the spring so it is not putting as much pressure on the plate to move back into position. Just don't adjust it too much that it won't go back. For the coil in the 2nd pic, replace the coil sleeve and the coil stop and that should stop the noise in that one.

I'm not sure where to find restored examples. But as far as reliability they are just like an EM pinball machine. They work better when you play them more often. Leave them sit for a long time and you tend to get problems from things gumming up.

What did you use to clean up the scenery? That turned out great.

I've had good luck getting them from pinball resource. If you don't see them on their website email them. They have a much bigger inventory than what they put on line.

KLOV has a list of owners for gun games. I think you have to be a member to see the list.