Another first pin owner here, got it last year.

Was briefly contemplating to get rid of it after my next door neighbour implored me to stop making whatever "that racket" was i now had to look into soundproofing my fledgling gameroom and unfortunately for me the machine was very much in the way for that kind of project

That ended up never happening and i'll be doing things the hard way instead but even if it had i'd have just gotten another one later since i happen to love Police Force so i'll take it as a blessing.

Well it's been two years now, i really should update my review one of these days. ( nevermind the other pins i still got to write up about, old and new aquaintances alike )

I guess it's both a bit marmite and does it survive the honeymoon for most. Me personally, i wouldn't part with it unless i can get a nicer one but every one i've seen since has been beaten to a bloody pulp in one way or another so that's just not terribly likely to happen i guess. I mean, if it's such a ho hum pin how come most everyone in my neck of the woods runs theirs completely into the ground first before they sell it mmh?

Repairs have been relatively minimal, give or take a flipper assembly going to pot which taught me how to whip that back into shape and what fuse goes with it in the backbox and right now i need to find a local source for one of those extraterrestrial looking keys required to get the topper off as a dead bulb in it is staring me down.

Much obliged, that really had me stumped as i've never seen star bolts with those particular thin/long indentations and wouldn't you know it ; it's one of those things were if you try to describe them google will insist you are speaking fluent chinese.

And yeah, there's two openings in the backbox but i've fumbled around in them and for the life of me i am unable to reach whatever is in there exactly, i presume a print that holds the bulbs but i don't actually know that yet... Thanks to your help i venture i'll find out soon enough though