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Congrats! That's a pretty cool game. I played it a couple times at the show. It's harder than it looks.
Do you think your wife *REALLY* expected you to come home from a pinball show *WITHOUT* a machine?!?
Pittsburgh, PA
Quoted from Fast-Ed:I passed on one for a 100.00 at the local drive in and have since regretted it a few years ago. I was just getting into pins. Ed
Somewhere near St. Louis, Missouri ?
Congrats BB. I'm happy that you found a pin you've wanted for a long time. Gotta tell ya though...that is one ugly pin. LOL Sorry bro. 
Meant to add that I LOVED the video game and was great at it at the time. Haven't played it in years. Do like the crazy 4 flippers though. That's kinda wild.
Quoted from retired_user_101:Somewhere near St. Louis, Missouri ?
Yes potosi, mo. 60 miles south of St. Louis. Ed
ok.
this isn't for everyone. you may want to close your eyes and just scroll down real fast...
Thought i'd go out on a limb and just take a chance.
got bright yellow legs. now that they are on, the game looks even more like a toy, a game. it works (at least in person) 
You still can't get me to put blue legs & rails on tron.
Put on clear plastic leg protectors, new bolts, new feet, and yellow footies for the feet (to not scratch floor).
Had the plastic leg protectors in past (originally for tron), but centerflank slapped me around and said they'd hurt that particular pin's cabinet art
Here's the before & after of the front-left leg.
It looks nice but it's not for me, I'm more of a purist when it comes to cosmetics. Is there a reason you used ribbed legs from a System 3? I would have thought the flat type System 80 legs would have been your choice.
Now you're going to have to do something with the coin door, rails and lock down bar because they look out of place ... it never ends. 
Steve
Quoted from blownfuse:Well, I'll try to think of some things for you to do to your game then. What about colored LED's inside the flippers like I did a few years ago to my Alien Star or last year to my MGoW?
Steve
ooooo.... any pix ?
I worked with Greg Ong of MindOrbits and he helped me figure out how to make my flippers flicker like embers in a fire on my MGoW. I have alternating orange and red LED's installed 2 of each color per flipper. I think it came out real nice, pics and a short vid of it working below.
Steve
Quoted from dothedoo:Congrats! That's a pretty cool game. I played it a couple times at the show. It's harder than it looks.
Do you think your wife *REALLY* expected you to come home from a pinball show *WITHOUT* a machine?!?
nope 
Quoted from blownfuse:I worked with Greg Ong of MindOrbits and he helped me figure out how to make my flippers flicker like embers in a fire on my MGoW. I have alternating orange and red LED's installed 2 of each color per flipper. I think it came out real nice, pics and a short vid of it working below.
Steve
wow, those look incredible. haven't ever seen anything like that before in flippers.
what a great idea.
i like the translite lighting. looks similar to the Space Invaders pin.
I've got one at home. Definitely not one for a small collection, but I'm a big fan of Trudeau's quirkier games. I have my QQ sitting right next to a Spirit. When I got mine a few years ago, I think there were still some NOS plastics and targets available. My back glass was made new for me. I still have the original one. It's one of those games that I'll come back to for a month and then not touch it for a year. I think I'd play it more if I had it closer to my main lineup of pins though. I'd never sell it or the Spirit. Congrats on your purchase. Curious what it ended up going for. My base price wasn't all that much, but then there were some artist paint touch ups, the plastic set, targets, and bg. Looks and plays great to me. Now if I could just find an NOS plastic set for Spirit.
Awesome. I've heard of this pin, but have never seen pics of one til now. Now thanks to you I will probably pounce on the first nice one I see for sale. Very cool looking pin, a novelty with the flipper layout. Trudeau rocks!
Quoted from annointed:Awesome. I've heard of this pin, but have never seen one. Now thanks to you I will probably pounce on the first nice one I see for sale. Very cool looking pin, a novelty with the flipper layout. Trudeau rocks!
it's really fun.
it has both offensive and defensive game play shots. both aligning to the arcade video game concept, lighting-up/coloring the cubes in the pyramid and dealing with enemies.
then just handling the double flippers, but tied to opposite buttons for the lower flippers, really does a number on the player's response system.
it's as unique as the arcade video game Qbert.
I have one ... Bought an NOS plastics set from Steve Young, he also sells the drop down stickers and manual.
Quoted from retired_user_101:Now it's time for some repairs, updates, and upgrades.
Updates:
1. new speakers
2. all new rubbers
3. new legs, bolts, footies, plastic cab protectors
4. new wall power cord
5. new plunger housing, spring, & rod
6. get matching color plastic rubber acorn nuts so they blend in better vs draw attention to them
7. new playfield glass
8. new silver screws to hold plastics down, when acorns aren't used
9. get washers between the metal posts and the plastics. metal washers now, but use new plastic ones later. maybe colored or transparent? tbd.
Clean-up:
1. playfield cleaning
2. playfield waxing
3. remove all plastics and clean
4. clean out lower cabinet (little funky)
Repairs:
1. Plastics:
___some plastics have broken ends. need to find replacements, or create a whole new set of plastics
2. Playfield:
___It had prior paint touch-ups. hmmm... could redo this on laptop & find a printer to put on a brand new playfield. that's a big project. art, not a problem. cutting all those holes, putting in inserts, screwing in all the equipment - yikes.
___Two roll-overs don't seem to work. A guy walked up to me at the show and said they didn't work and were a pain since they influence game play.
3. Lower Cabinet:
___could use some minor wood puddy repair, sanding & new paint job.
4. Backbox:
___could use some minor wood puddy repair, sanding & new paint job.
5. Translite:
___there's a few rough paint scratches in the art. could create a new version on pc and have a plastic translite printed & get a custom cut piece of backglass. OR, find someone who could lay the paint on glass, creating a new translite.
Any advice / help out there? Any reference art available to draw from?
I hate when that happens. 
I can't help with plastics but when I get my QQ set back up, I'll ask Cliffy to make protectors for the broken areas so that any good replacements don't get broken too. That's the good part about restoring an old game, you get to see where the damage occurs and then you get to figure out how to stop it from happening again before replacing it with a good plastic. I have plastic protectors made for quite a few games, just need to get them over to Cliffy for scanning (after PAGG). Then, anyone that needs one will be able to get it from him.
Steve
Here are the one's I have covered so far;
Mars, God of War center plastic over 4 drop targets
Pink Panther center plastic over 3 drop targets
Devil's Dare center plastic over 5 drop targets (no pic yet)
Installed new glass, now the ball kick-out solenoid won't stop firing after it shoots the ball out to the plunger / shooter-lane.
uhhg. 
any creative ideas on what to do with the old original playfield glass?
it's an odd-dimension wide-body.
New glass will do that ya know. Sounds like the outhole switch is adjusted too close or stuck closed.
I have a lot of old scratched but tempered pinball glass, I was thinking of making a greenhouse in the backyard out of them.
Steve
Hey Brett, nice job. I actually like the yellow legs and think it looks great on the pin. Perfect match.
First and foremost... Congrats BB!
I love this era of Gottliebs (in fact, my favorite). I would like to be the quasi-Steve (blownfuse) 'round here and own the majority of these - even Krull Steve! 
Anywho, back to QQ. Some of my observations and opinions: There is definitely more than 9 floating around. One usually shows up at Expo (Marks?) I always have the meaning to put a few games because I really, really, really want to love this game but can a *mild* like would be the better choice of words.
The playfield definitely has the unorthodox layout to say the least. Which can also be it's downfall. Since the majority of the playfield is dedicated to the figure 8 layout; I find that the randomness travel of the pinball is relied on making that loop.
I guess what I'm trying to say the majority of the playfield gameplay sans the upper portion is basically 'on rails' too much.
Someone said it the best, it's not for a small collection! Believe me, I'm a HUGE Gottlieb fan; I would like to own one, but I can think of 10 other Gottlieb pins from this era I would own first....
Brampton, ON
Quoted from retired_user_101:I've been hunting for a Q*bert's Quest Pinball for ages and ages.
Almost got 1 a few years ago from a fellow in Canada.
Congrats!
... and, yeah, we traded emails back in May 2012 about my QQ, which I have since sold to a local collector.
I'm not big of mods but I did consider building a topper for QQ, going so far as to design one. It would have functioned like an extension to the backbox with a matching yellow wooden frame, back-lit translite that would be wired up to blink along with the Coily, Ugg and Wrong-Way inserts. The images used were also taken directly from the actual Q*bert upright.
Anyway, QQ didn't hold my attention, was sold, and the topper plan shelved. If I had room for 30 pins, I would have kept it for the awesome novelty. But, sadly, I don't.
Made a gameplay video! ... with a very liberal tilt bob.
Yeah, I posted a pick of the topper in my post above.
And I did more than sketch; artwork, including rear opacity layer all finished, and cut angles all worked out for the odd-shaped wooden frame (which emulated the stacked cubes). It's done.
It's been a couple years but I believe WWF:RR took its place.
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