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Realized that I am an early 80s SS guy - Willams vs Bally

By RetroRambler

1 year ago


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    #44 1 year ago

    I find that SS projects from all 4 companies will break for a while but once you work through this and get them reliable they all will stay that way for a while

    A few things I didn’t see so will mention though I love games from all 4

    Bally and Stern have the same electronics basically so if you learn one you know the
    other. This gets a huge vote from me

    Bally Stern had 50 volt flippers always while Williams was 28V through early system 7. I think the early Williams flip weak because of this but later System 7 flip fine

    Bally CPU board traces are made of shit and are easy to damage. Williams are much better made. I find the Bally/Stern easier to troubleshoot than Williams only once you get the first flash. Before that they are the
    same. Both have crap sockets

    I don’t enjoy Gottlieb projects at all but would pick up one from the other 3 all day

    Past performance is not indicative of future results

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