After years of searching for this title. I have finally found one. I know of only 1 other one in the USA and know of another in South america. Took me 6 years to finally find one. Was dirty as all shit. Every lamp socket needed to be replaced because of the shit design lamp sockets that fell apart and would seize the bulbs in. Things are playing now, but still needs some tweeking. I will be posting video of the game soon, when I get everything working well. Love the sound package. The pop caps glow and pulsate with red between the rock cracks. I thought Jupiter rotated, but it does not....not yet anyway. I will be working to make that happen. Just thought i'd share a super rare DMD, most have never seen.

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actually they are like a soft foam rubber type material. So they really can't break.

another rare euro collector introduced it to me about 6 years ago. I wanted one ever since. Sound package is killer.

yes, the boards have a crapload of baby fuses (T versions) all over the place. Which I guess is good to narrowing down where a problem could occur. Problem right now, is that I have no manual, or schematics and there isn't any documentation online anywhere. But I have a lead on a manual, so that is going to change soon.

here's a pic (i didn't take this one) of what the pops look like when they are glowing.

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yes, the entire playfield is covered in a sheet of about 1/4" thick plastic, so wear is impossible. Taito did that on their games as well.

I think the lower left is a lamp driver board.

Here is a gameplay video.

I'm still experiencing some lamp matrix issues going on. During Lamp test, It seems to light 3 lights at the same time, and I think it's suppose to go light one by one. I have a lot of lights on that shouldn't be lit and the lights kind of do what they want. Hard to troubleshoot when you dont' have a manual or schematics. And they are not available anywhere on the internet.

i'll get this lamp matrix figured out. Once I find out if the test is suppose to show only 1 at a time, then I know it's probably a chip or transistor that is lighting 3 at once. Should be an easy fix at that point.

Just like always, there's no such thing as not for sale in my collection. It's just if you want something from my private stash, it's going to be pretty high.

actually I looked up the manual for bike race which is helping out a lot for this one. It's indeed a matrix for the lamps. I can't tell if all 3 come on during gameplay, because they are all Linked with 3 or 4 in test mode. Every light shows a group of lights. I think this is why the field is so full when playing the game. Because every light that is suppose to be on, brings 3 or 4 more with it. So something is causing every light to partner up with 2 or 3 others.

I know it's not the diodes on the sockets, because I just put in all new sockets and all new diodes and triple checked them, because I had to go back, and pull all the LED's out, to put bulbs in. Just to make sure the LEd's were not screwing with the system. So while I had them out, I made sure every diode was on correctly, and on the right contact points. So all sockets are checked and triple checked. So now I'm moving to the boards and connectors. All my connectors look like new. even when I pull the pins out of the molex, they are shiny and new looking. Also redid the pins to make sure we didn't have cold solder joints.

The driver board is separate from the CPU. What I thought were the plugs for Lamps, turned out to be the plugs for the coils. Seemed when I moved those, the lamps would come back on if they went out. But turns out they are not the right plugs. So those are the plugs I redid the pins on.

I do notice there is a buzzing coming off the driver board, that goes with the lights. then the lights will go completely out (matrix lights only) wait for about 2 min then come back in. like something gets hot, cuts them out, cools down and comes back in.

and you drove right past me too. Like 15 min off your path.

yea, i'm really happy with the overall package. Has a lot of similarities to addams family. I can tell they used it as a guide to make this game. From the modes you have, to the thing flips flipper. I just wished jupiter rotated around. But i'll be making a mod for that. Probably just buy a DE death star motor system and throw it in.

I don't think that will happen, considering this is the first one in 6 years i've even seen available. So I had to snag it and couldn't really be picky about it. :/ And it never went up for sale. I was contacted about it because people knew I was looking for one.

yes, they look cool because they are in a soft latex red rubber material. So the deep cracks light up red from within. Really cool effect and makes them super durable.

I think the sound, sounds really good. Has nice deep tones to it. Speaker system is actually really well done.

I wish. Only way this would be even better is if they threw a little, "eyes wide shut", partying somewhere in the mix.

apparently, the manual for bike race, has a different CPU board than what IO moon has. so it's no use to me.

it is kind of keyboardish, but not as bad as the MIDI jams DE did at those times.

I know but I don't have it yet.

I have the lamp matrix figured out. I have a couple of switches doing some weird stuff, once I get that figured out, new gameplay video coming soon.

for the other 2 owners in the US. Here is instruction cards if you want them

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hell yes it is. there has been several games i've been playing for good 15-20 min on ball one, and end up with a 0 score going into ball 2.

indy 500 and TOTAN have pretty steep penalties for tilting tho too. Since totan is all about bonus, and Indy 500 doesn't give you your mode scores until bonus.

Ok, here is an updated Video. Also added a planet rotation motor, so Jupiter slowly rotates. Which should have been in the game from the beginning.