Hi Tom,

Owner of 522910 checking in.

PP is an awesome game! I flip flop between it and MC being my favorite Alvin G, but then again I love them all!

Hey Robert,

Yeah, the serial number thing is always going to be in question. That said, after all these years collecting serial numbers it does look pretty clear that MC was about 226 units, and Michael Gottlieb all but confirmed that.

PP does seem to pop up fairly often and I had always attributed that to the fact that a whole bunch of these were still on the dock when Alvin G closed up in March of '94, and instead of being routed and parted out or stashed away in operator's warehouses, a lot of them went to directly to homeowners. And, since the game was pretty much universally hated, they changed hands a lot.

While I still think this is part of why we see them a bunch, I too am now thinking there were more than 200 made. A while back I started thinking about the new serial number scheme that Alvin G used on PP and it appears to me that they simply added a "10" to the end of every number. I disregarded these last two digits and took the highest and lowest numbers from my log book and I get 371 (serials 553910-516810). I need a lot more PP serials to make a final conclusion, but I think I'm on the right track. Please send me your serial numbers guys and gals (for any Alvin G games)! Thanks!

That PCA-028 will not work. The only game in the world that it works in is my Slam-N-Jam prototype. This board is very different and was going to be their next generation of power supply, but they went out of business before it could be implemented.

A bunch of these boards were made, but unfortunately they really have no use or value to speak of. The parts vendors that have them on hand nowadays snatched them up without knowing what they were.

Keep your eyes peeled for one on eBay or offered up by someone on here. I have some in storage somewhere, and have some people interested already if/when I get them dug out, and if I end up with an extra one I’ll let you know.

5506. Starting with PP they did a weird thing with the serials where they added a 10 to the end of every number. As to where the numbers for PP started, I can't remember.

The blue rounds were used on USA Football, USA Football redemption, A.G. Soccer-Ball, and A.G. Football.

The yellow rounds were used on Punchy The Clown, Al's Garage Band Goes On A World Tour Mystery Castle, and the 2 Slam-N-Jam prototypes.

As far as the PP standups go, by design they were supposed to be red. Some people converted to blues over the years as there were a bunch of these for sale years ago, but some have also surmised that maybe they used up some blue stock on the line. It's definitely possible that that occurred.

You're welcome, Don.

Very likely original then on the blue targets in your game. And yes, there's definitely a need for those other targets out there. The translucent plastic that they used just didn't hold up very well, so lots of broken ones to be replaced!

It is cool for sure, but believe it or not, there's A LOT of HUO PP's out there. When Alvin G closed up in March of 1994, there were many PP's that were destined for overseas or to domestic distributors that never left the factory. They were sold right off of the loading dock, basically. And for cheap! Many of them went into people's homes. That's why there's so many nice ones out there.

So, even if you see a PP with a foreign coin door and a foreign country designation on the tags, but someone says it is HUO and never left the states, they probably aren't lying.

You're welcome. I love talking about this stuff. If you're ever down in SE Iowa, I'd love to show you the Alvin G & Co. Museum.

Another piece of PP trivia here in the playfield pic that you posted...

The guy with the ace under his hat is the game's artist, Dan Hughes.

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