Semi-rare, 594 units. Stern "Pinball" EM version. 95% working, a few more bugs to figure out.

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Thanks, mine is mostly complete, with some jacked-up wiring on a couple of the score reels. The guys I bought it from in D.C. threw in a box of new flipper parts, a couple solenoids, and some other stuff. It was a hell of a deal for $180. That was maybe 5 years ago, one of the last great deals I ever found on Mr. Pinball.
I'll have to check it out closer to see if anything is missing or bad - the bottom pop bumper cap is wrong, and my spinner doesn't look like the ones on IPDB. Other than that, it's flipping and playing, just doing some weird shit with the 100,000 scoring causing the ball count to advance.
It's definitely a Chicago Coin inside. It has the wires soldered directly to the score reel PCBs, which looks awful. The pictures on IPDB show the same thing, so it was either the stock setup, or it was a common hack.
What do your score reels look like, play_pinball ? Do they have connectors, or are wires soldered directly to the PCBs? I wonder if other games did that.
On the IPDB, Disco and Rawhide appear to use score reel connectors, but the example they show of "Pinball" has the same hacked-looked soldered-on connectors. (Stern's Rawhide EM was a Chicago Coin design remade by Stern. "Disco" and "Pinball" were Stern's own EM designs, basically copying CC's EMs)
The solid state version of Pinball uses the same ROM as Stingray - the two games have basically the same switches and features. So Stern's EM Pinball is cool because it's basically an EM version of Stingray.
That might be a cool hack - adapt a Stingray playfield to work with an EM Pinball cabinet and head.
Stingray is sitting right next to Pinball now (see the cab on the left in my picture above), so I'm going to have to take a look at that playfield!