So I picked up this Rollergames a few days ago. It's got stickers on the CPU board ROMS that say PROTO 1 on it, and the serial number is 576 360105 - 576 is the game number. The serial number...I'm looking at the IPSD, looks like it's an awfully early production machine. Am I right in reading it as that it's the 105th game to roll off the line?

I haven't found the date of manuf anywhere on it yet..maybe I just don't know where to look....the CPU board is dead, it hasn't been hooked up since I've had it, but it's got "techie tags" on it...a "Ralph Reffner" with very nice handwriting left his home and work number......and tags also say:

U15 Bad 22 Aug 99

and on another tag:

Board Suffered damage when +5 volt reg. failed / Possible that U27 + U26 Bad Also 15 SEP 99

So...the board serial matches the other boards and the cabinet. This game has not been played in almost 13 years.

Manufacture date says 90095...what the heck is that?

Verified that it IS an early production, it has flash lamps on the insert board. Apparently there were 3 revisions to that and only the early ones have the flashers on there.

Okay. so...pictures incoming judge for yourself.

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So you see....I have a mishmash. It's clearly not a sample, the serial number doesn't indicate it.

All chrome wireforms too. Oh yes, also, my manual is not fancy, it's stapled. It says March 1990 on it, it has 5-Bank Dr Tgt in the switch matrix in the manual, along with a diagram of the drop target assembly as well.. Lamps, switches, solenoid layout charts all reference the drops. Nothing about the standups at all, but there they are on my game!

I was TOTALLY excited to think for a moment there was all those drops in there and I didn't notice it. I've never really played the game before. Talk about a letdown lol.

Yes, but several inserts are popped really badly. I didn't see it when I picked it up...it was 9:30 at night in some guy's garage in the middle of nowhere 30 miles SW of Oklahoma City and it took us like an hour just to agree on a price and break into it after I saw the acid damage on the OTHER game I picked up at the same time. If it wasn't for the condition of the cabinets and what I THOUGHT I saw of the playfields, I would've talked him down lower than I did.

Rollergames may have to end up a keeper if I invest in getting the playfield re-cleared. I have to learn how to fix these inserts first...never seen them popped so bad... there's like 5 or 6 really bad ones.

What, on John's sample game? I agree that the sticker art for the proto SKATE targets doesn't really fit the overall art theme very well....primarily that blue background throws it off for me..