A friend of mine came across a TZ sample game in the wild. He called me up and we started comparing notes on this TZ and the differences. Unfortunately no red boards and missing spiral plastic from the left topside, but all else seems to match up with other documentation I've found on Pinside. There is one thing I haven't seen before and neither has he after working on many TZs in the past. In the upper right hand corner mounted on the ramp is a plastic cover covering the switch. Does anyone else have this? It looks factory installed to us. I believe I read somewhere that the sample cabinets also were missing the stars at the top on the backbox (attached is a pic of the found cabinet and a pic of my friend's backbox). Also the expansion board in the backbox is installed in the lower left on the side of the cabinet instead of the upper right as my other one is.

She's pretty filthy, but will be purty when we get her done. Ordering a few parts, but not bad overall. Real happy to get this early game with the third magnet. Someone put the L3 ROMs in it. Is the prototype ROM needed for the third magnet to activate?

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I'm going to see how she cleans up and will probably keep the original art...I don't think you can find sample side art can you?

Do your optos activate during gameplay or did they not finish the process?

I appreciate the comments and do plan to keep the art as is and will keep the rest of it as original as possible. I've never played a TZ sample game and hope it plays as well as the current TZ I have (which I will be selling).

Thanks all. I'll post more pics when it's shopped.

Does the third magnet throw the ball back and forth to the left magnet as I've seen in a YouTube video? The "missing" optos beside the piano score points is that correct?

Is anyone selling the clear clock housings? This one isn't bad, but yellowed and was curious if I can find another one.

Thanks,

Hogey

Does anyone know if there is a difference between the Sample translite and the production trans?

Thanks.