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Sharkey's Shootout
Stern, 2000
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Ill bring it saturday! LOL!!!!
Elkhorn, WI
Quoted from trilogybeer:What's up with that?
Wall art......its actually a pretty nice piece though. Im going to try getting the mylar off and buff the crud out of it with the big orbital.
1 week later
Ottawa, ON
Love the strobing effects this game does with its lights! Too bad the person playing was so terrible 
10 months later
reviving this thread, any new owners or new mods?
I find this machine is one of sterns most durable/dependable machines out there! I've only had to replace 2 switches (drop target and scoop) and 2 drop targets in 5 years or so. get lost in the web!
I ended up selling it but yeah, mine was rock solid, had no issues with it ever.
I really enjoyed it while I had it.
2 years later
Thought I'd bring this one back to life again. I have a question in regards to locks. The first multiball they're automatically lit and you can start pretty quickly. After that you have to relight the lock shot each time you lock a ball. Anyone know what shot relights them, I seem to be doing it randomly
8 months later
Bermuda Triangle
5 months later
Bump to this club. Took some searching to find the thread... anyway, discovered some cool stuff like an official response from Stern regarding the “tournament mode” not ever being developed and found the elusive “Airball” animation (and +5 mil. Points) when using the right outlane post save to get the ball back in to the shooter lane. That’s such a cool feature. Reminds me of the death save award in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Anyway, nearest I can come to disabling the randomness of the mystery feature is to allow it once per game by disconnection the 4 P-O-O-L lane switches. That way, you can’t relight it. From my research, that’s all the POOL rollovers award in the game.
Quoted from Thrillhouse:Thought I'd bring this one back to life again. I have a question in regards to locks. The first multiball they're automatically lit and you can start pretty quickly. After that you have to relight the lock shot each time you lock a ball. Anyone know what shot relights them, I seem to be doing it randomly
To answer this... to relight the locks on subsequent multiballs, you have to collect a hurry up to light EACH LOCK and you can’t stack them.
To light the hurry up, shoot the left orbit all the way around, then to start it, shoot the left orbit again. To collect it, hit the flashing drop target shot. Now, Lock 1 is lit.
1 year later
I'm joining the Sharkey's club this week, looking forward to adding one in really nice condition. I have a question for Sharkey's owners. Has anyone tried installing the white ceramic balls sold by Pinball Life (for TZ and Avatar)? They are the correct size, 1 and 1/16, I believe, but they are lighter, 65 grams instead of 80 grams, so about 81% of the standard weight. I would expect them to be faster, and perhaps cause more airballs, but I wonder if they would work? I'm interested to see if white balls would work like cue balls in this game. I may try it!
4 months later
Ok I'm in the club picked up a working but filthy Sharkey for $1500.00. I don't think the glass had been off in ten years or more and it had the factory Panasonic batteries installed that had just begun to puke but it cleaned up really nice and plays great.
2 months later
Nidderau
Just joined the pinside this year.
I made a mod to the mystery ball which I want to share with you. I added a small LED under the plastic of the mystery ball and hooked it to the mystery ball insert. So the mystery ball is blinking with the mystery insert.
For the pool ball inserts I also used the same color as the real color of pool balls
All LEDs I used are from multiball in Germany.
Regards EBC_62
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Sad news....she lived in the Indy area for almost 20 years before relocating to Florida a few years ago....
New owner checking in. Picking it up on Saturday. Anything on the "must do" list? I'll be upgrading the battery board I'm sure. Figured I'd post and see what's a must do. Thanks!
Found an oddity about hitting Lonnie Ropp in the head with basketballs! What the heck? In attract mode: press these flipper buttons L,L,R L,L,R L,L,R L,L,R.
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Just about done shopping out my SS. Of course the coil sleeves were welded to the coils so I had to order all new coils on my flipper rebuild. But just after the ball enters the PF there is a slot there looks like for a switch. I see holes under the PF for the mounting of a switch but it looks like it was never there. Is there a switch there? My PF is chewed up from the ball landing there on the launch. I cleaned it up a little and put a piece of mylar down but is this the way it is on others? Is there a switch there?
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Head is all painted up and looking sexy again! New black leather t-molding installed on one side. Had to order some more to finish it off. Looks so much better with the black t-molding!
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1 year later
Just recently joined this small club. And have a question about the mystery 8-ball motor. Has anyone opened it to clean out the gear box?
Wondering how to open it up.
1 month later
FYI - I'm currently making a mod to help with speaker hum/buzz. I have a Simpsons Pinball Party, and the hum was bothering me. I ended up finding this pinside discussion (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tspp-speaker-humbuzz-fixed) which describes how to make the mod and how they work. The first post on that page has a video showing the process. I have them on Simpson's and Ripley's and they help immensely. If you'd like a pair and don't have the time or tools to make them, I will ship a pair to your door for $22. If interested please direct message me as I'm not here often. Thank you
1 week later
Quoted from Nintegageo:Recently sold my Sharkey's. Only due to space though, as this is a really great game that shall be missed.
Quoted from snyper2099:Agreed. I never want to let mine go.
its surely a fun game for its price point.
3 weeks later
joined the club this weekend! $900 craigslist find, my first real pinball score! 
She's got a number of issues, including most wack of all- the secondary button switches are missing completely! I think it was in a bowling alley most of its life, guess they didn't want anyone using those post saves. Playfield is pretty good shape tho. I'm probably going to be in here asking for help when I get around to fixing her up in a couple weeks.
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Quoted from Nintegageo:I think these are cool
ebay.com link: itm
thanks! those are perfect
Quoted from JakeFAttie:thanks! those are perfect
Looks like I’ll be grabbing a set as well. Thanks for the link.
so I'm having an issue with the single drop target that blocks the upper 8-ball orbit (right above the shooter lane). It's not reliably retracting and balls get stuck behind it as in the picture below. I cleaned what I could with q-tips and rubbing alcohol yesterday, but the problem persists. I ordered a new target (just the plastic part) and I guess I will have to take it apart, instal the new target, and see what I can figure out. This will be my first time messing with a drop target assembly. Any leads on good instructions or a video that can guide me, hopefully one specific to whitestar generation? Thanks, amigos!
IMG_6578 (resized).JPGanyone put art-blades or mirror-blades on their Sharkey's? I guess no one made art-blades specifically, but these mirror blades say they fit. They also seem to imply that blades across all these generations are more or less interchangeable? Maybe art blades from some other machine would look cool?
https://www.pinballlife.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PBL-200-0125-00
(meanwhile I've been adding some stickers to the backbox...
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6 months later
So it looks like it's about $500 to add a color DMD to Sharkeys? (is that pretty standard across all games?). Probably not worth it with values on this game being what they are, but just curious if anyone here has done it?
Quoted from JakeFAttie:So it looks like it's about $500 to add a color DMD to Sharkeys? (is that pretty standard across all games?). Probably not worth it with values on this game being what they are, but just curious if anyone here has done it?
Tempted as well. But for the cost, the game will need to be a long term keeper.
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