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Big Hurt Hospital: saving GTB's Frank Thomas trib: PUT IT ON THE BOARD, SAVED!

By goingincirclez

7 years ago


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#7 7 years ago

It looks like it's gonna make a nice player's machine. Please keep updating. I love reading threads like these.

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#11 7 years ago

Mold needs moisture to survive so as long as the game stays in a climate controlled enviroment, you shouldn't have to worry about it.

It would make someone a perfect first game to get them into the hobby. I say get it working, play it for awhile, and pass it along.

You could send it to me and I could see if Randy would let me color it. I'm sure there are a lot of people wanting to put a $400 colorDMD in a $1200 game.

#14 7 years ago
Quoted from goingincirclez:

Wait, ColorDMD does GTB games? I thought they were only doing WMS and Sterns? Gotta admit, the thought of doing the coloring for a game has captivated me for quite some time, given all my experience doing raster graphics and custom bitmaps dot-by-dot back in the day. But most of the "in demand" WMS/Stern titles will be long done before I ever own any of them.
Back to Big Hurt, I think mechanically this game can be saved. And ff anyone's dumb enough to save a forlorn GTB Sys3 it would be me, on this title specifically since I'm born-raised South Sider (still have '05 memorabilia on my walls) and remember Frank Thomas' heyday well.
Not sure it's a keeper for me, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it for a while before passing it along. But my conscience won't let me pass a time-bomb to someone else, you know?
But man, the overall build quality on this impresses the hell out of me. It's a shame Gottlieb went under, they sure didn't seem to be cutting too many corners. You can see they knew what they were doing and maintained some pride in it.

ColorDMDs don't support Gtbs yet but someday I'm sure they will.

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#45 7 years ago
Quoted from goingincirclez:

or all the stout construction in this game, I'm surprised so little had factory mylar. Would it have killed them to extend the sheet into the pop area, or lower into the flipper zone?

I think a lot of times mylar was put on by the distributor or operator, not Gottlieb. Somebody else may be able to correct me if I'm wrong.

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