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That Demolition Man head is pretty neat. Matte clear that bad boy and roll with it! haha.
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Quoted from Ballypalooza:Feast your eyes on this. It will remember your high scores or jump start your car if needed. The cross reflection from the sun is accidental, but a fitting sign of death for this board.
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That poor Stars machine!
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:My parents ran an arcade in the 1980s and 1990s. The absolute low value in machines occurred in the early to mid 90s as machines were aging and there was no internet or ebay to sell them on. You were limited to trying to sell excess in the local paper or putting for sale signs on it, selling it in the paper, or putting it up for auction at a regional arcade game auction geared at operators. In general, operators did not want old games as kids still wanted the latest and greatest. The going price on a galaga or pacman was about $50. It was cheaper to buy a used pinball machine to use for parts than it was to buy new parts for your almost working machine. Nobody saw the value in games that there is today as adults and older folks simply didn't play them and there was 0 home market. It wasn't until people that grew up playing them had their own money that they had any value whatsoever on the secondary market.
No wonder you cycle through games so fast! haha. You are the son of arcade running parents!
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:RUSH pro after 24 days on location in a grocery store.
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Yikes!
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Quoted from tomdotcom:This def has to be included here:[quoted image]
I'm too new around here to understand this photo. Is this someone's home brew playfield that just looks like it would be horrible to actually play in reality?
Quoted from La4s:Spend the next 8 hours reading and catching up.
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La4s Thanks for posting that! haha. No way I'm going to delve into that thread. Is that the guy who wanted some WHALE of an investor for his smash hit pinball machine he was going to make? haha
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Came downstairs and kids were doing penalty kicks using this door as a goal with a real soccer ball. Shut that down quick.
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Yikes! Crisis averted!
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Financing options on Stern's Website for the Bond 60th. Courtesy of Pinball-Obsessed on the SLE thread https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/james-bond-60th-edition-sle-super-limited-elwin-hype-thread/page/66#post-7332628.
19% APR on a Pinball Machine.
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Wow! I had no idea that people get loans to purchase pinball machines. I don't blame Stern for offering financing, but yikes! Pinball is an unnecessary luxury as it is. No need to unnecessarily throw more money down the drain by financing these things.
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Quoted from Pingball:It's Been a Hard Day's Night!
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Aww. Is that all dirt, or missing paint?
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:I've got little kids too. Banished from the basement for now. Was removing a P3 glass and it just exploded.
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Yikes!!!!! I’m overdue for that to happen to me.
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Quoted from rollinover:Vintage look
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What game is that? It looks like sn add a ball.
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Oh, no! King of Diamonds is fun! Wonder if it could have been saved?
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Man... the pinball horror happened to me last night. A flipper bat in my Whirlwind physically broke last week, and yesterday my new one showed up. Change out a flipper bat. Easy right? Well, took out the old one, put the new one in and tightened it down after lining it up. Easy! Played a game and the flipper came loose after a few hits because I didn't tighten it down enough. Okay, Opened it back up and tightened it down so hard the screw snapped in half. Crap. Got out an old screw from an old bag of parts and did the same thing. Crud. Installed another one not quite as tight, played a game, and the flipper died after 30 seconds because I forgot to gap the switch properly... so now I'm out 2 weeks on a broken flipper bat and I'm waiting for another flipper coil in the mail. At least I get to play with solder again!
SantaEatsCheese I break things all the time on my machines. Fix one problem and break something else. Attempt to fix one problem and make it worse. I need a bigger stash of old parts to pull from.
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Aww, man, Frontier is on the left, but what is the playfield on the right?
The best part is the shelf above the urinals. What a waste of what looked like good playfields. No bueno.
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Quoted from tomdrum:This is horrible:
ebay.com link: itm
0 bids! Haha.
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:Okay, that had to have fallen off a truck at a minimum. I've dumped a pin before on a dolly in dirt and other than digging mud out of the leg bolt holes it was fine.
So that’s why the Xenon head had extra brackets! Haha
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Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:$13,295 for a Stern Venom Pro... Only 48 easy payments of 276.99 if you purchase off of Amazon and use Affirm![quoted image]
Yikes! Financing pinball machines is no bueno.
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JethroP it will be a fun project. It's a fun pinball machine and worth the effort. New or spare boards are around and available. That playfield is rough though. I kinda like the idea of you keeping it an original, crusty, rat rod, survivor 8 Ball Deluxe. Do the bare minimum to get it flipping and playing great, but let it look crusty.
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Quoted from gdonovan:actually looks pretty good.
I was thinking the same thing and also that it might be fun to play. haha
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Quoted from Whistles:I don't think its el-dorado unless its the europlay cab? Would make sense maybe? The us one looks different.
Ah, I see what you mean. Here’s my El Dorado.
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embryonjohn Cool retro game room there in those photos. How does that bowler work? Its it like actual bowling, but with skeeballs?
Quoted from embryonjohn:Exactly like real bowling with the ball coming back to you with an elevated rack.
All you need is the hand blower.
My wife would love that. She's in a duckpin bowling league. How must room that that take up?
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