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By Dayhuff

9 years ago


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#86 9 years ago
Quoted from Dayhuff:

Yeah lets keep it going. Here's one thats not too exciting though.....but yet I've never seen another one. An old can of pinball Mills wax with some still in it even. Pretty cool graphics on the front. This was probably when you could still buy car oil in a can........LOL.
John P. Dayhuff
Battle Creek, Mi.
269-979-3836

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I used to buy Mill Wax (and Wildcat #125; Recommended by Bally) by the case and sell a bottle or can to virtually every home service call customer I went to in the mid-late '70's. Made some nice extra cash doing that. Back in the days when air was clean and sex was dirty.....

#96 9 years ago
Quoted from MattElder:

A prototype backglass from the unreleased game, Dual Pool

Rest in Peace Alvin Gottlieb.

#128 9 years ago

A stack of original Bally Service Bulletin paper stock

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#129 9 years ago

Bally Wizard! Promotional Poster

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#130 9 years ago

Bally Captain Fantastic Promotional Poster

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#131 9 years ago

Gottlieb Incredible Hulk Promotional Poster

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#132 9 years ago

Bally demo Scrip for their ill-fated Cash Cage system. Tito systems ultimately won the casinos over. This was printed on banknote paper. Note Serial number

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#163 9 years ago
Quoted from Classic_Stern:

Here is 2 NOS Gamatron fields and the original first test print field from the initial test run....Yea more Gamatron stuff....Yea also pictured is a NOS Rolling Stones (New from crate) and a NOS Frontier. Not as rare as Gamatron but rare.

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Also a Laser Ball playfield I see....

#188 9 years ago
Quoted from Shapeshifter:

Very rare original 1947 document, first flippers!
And a NOS Kruzman Hit the Deck playfield ( only 375 games made ).

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Steve Young could probably sell copies of that Humpty Dumpty letter for fifty bucks a pop. You can bet Bob Fesjian would be all over photocopy sales on fleabay.

The nice thing is that the fonts on the original seem to be common so anyone can type it up on Microsoft Word or whatever Apple calls their word processor.

Let the games begin....

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#298 9 years ago
Quoted from Twilight1:

Dug this out today. Probably not rare but a cheap repo no holes drilled.

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cheap repo no holes drilled.
Thank you to Gene, Gene the bankruptcy machine!

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#597 9 years ago
Quoted from Pugsley:

What... air motor? You have to be kidding.

If those became available, the small Harbor Freight water/air pumps would be easy to use with them.

5 months later
#627 8 years ago

A nice Bally desk clock.

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#677 8 years ago
Quoted from dmbjunky:

John in Michigan, do you take visitors? I really want to see a King Kong someday. That game looks spectacular.

John is really cool so PM him and see if you can work something out. The best is his annual open house the first Saturday of November. Crowded, but so much fun and a great vibe. food & snacks available too Bring something to pass around if you come. We all gotta eat.

He also opens his place up the day before Pinball At The Zoo every April. Not as busy as it takes place on a Wednesday evening.

#694 8 years ago

Stern Electronics Gold Medal. While not a pinball machine, and since the video game never went beyond the prototypes, these should fetch a few dollars thanks to the celebrity who is no longer with us. At least as Bruce Jenner, (now known as Caitlyn Jenner) as named on these NOS shoelaces.

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#699 8 years ago
Quoted from toyotaboy:

Dude, I totally played that on test in Elk grove at "Games 'R' Us" in the strip mall (that knocked down 3 walls to expand). I remember it vividly, it had a laserdisc showing footage of bruce, and then you basically played a track n field clone on top, against a video split screen of bruce on the bottom.

That's the machine! I played it at either the AMOA at the Hyatt Regency or ASI show at Mart Plaza in downtown Chicago.

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#721 8 years ago
Quoted from dmbjunky:

Why were so few made?

The two guys who could best answer that are no longer around; Alex Wilms and Harry Koebke. However, Alex's son Freddy would know as well as Hans Kloss. I may see Hans in a few months. If so, I'll ask him.

#733 8 years ago
Quoted from Neal_W:

I haven't noticed any since '83 but I scanned the photo for clues, which was obviously taken since TSPP was released in '03. Can't read the cig price on the machine, but it does have a bill changer.
Then I noticed the bar name on the vending machine is July Alley, and found that is a closed Dallas dive bar . Found a photo from 2013.
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That's actually a electric currency acceptor for the old National Vendors cigarette machine. They were built to be 100% mechanical for operation(a power cord was used for a GI flourescent tube for dark locations). The ACMR (All Coin Mechanical Reader) accepted coins and validated the vend. Unfortunately, with cigarettes crossing the $5.00/pack price point, half a roll of quarters did not make for a practical vend. That's where these modification kits came into being.

You should have seen the electric acceptor used on Smokeshop cigarette machines.

And then there was the dreaded Seeburg chain drive top counter delivery cigarette machines.

#734 8 years ago
Quoted from vid1900:

Wow, when was the last time you saw a cancer vending machine???

Last evening, at both the Motor City and Greektown Casino-Hotels in Detroit. Only $10.00 per pack; All taxes included.

#735 8 years ago
Quoted from PinB:

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Nice pic of Tim Arnold. A rare moment where he is actually playing a game of pinball. Good to see he has something other than a tee shirt and jeans.

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#740 8 years ago

Agree with Forceflow on the FotL logo. Also note if genuine, the Bally logo would have the Trademark symbol and there would be an Aucoin Copyright notice.

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#767 8 years ago
Quoted from iwantansi:

Bally was experimenting with the plastic playfields around that time..
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bally-playboy-plastic-playfield

I have a Malibu Beach Bingo made with the same material.

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#800 8 years ago
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:

Something I recently pulled out of storage to hang up.
Original BK2000 T-shirt (Size Large) purchased 1990 through Williams. This was part of the promotional ad campaign you see on playfields at the allen screw lock point to rotate the upper playfield for service.
"Authentic Black Knight T-shirt, $14.95, Call 1-800-347-5300"
A prototype BK2000 backglass sits above it signed by Steve Ritchie.
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Call that 800 number today. Something quite different than pinball t-shirts.
For me, no need to worry about a callback as I have all toll free caller id numbers blocked.

#812 8 years ago

Sha, Na, NO!

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#905 7 years ago
Quoted from dudah:

What's the difference?

Acid-etched Zaccaria logo on the glass....

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#927 7 years ago
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:

I would not expect PPS to be giving out a jacket when AFMr goes into production eventually.

$279.88 with purchase of machine. Limit; one per machine purchased.....

#929 7 years ago

I know, Mr. Personality will probably go for $350.00
plus shipping & "handling"....

8 months later
#1034 6 years ago
Quoted from ForceFlow:

It wasn't just Bally that experimented with this--some Gottlieb System 80 games have a SBA slot. I have a Gottlieb Timeline with 1 SBA for 5 plays

Also Williams....

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#1063 6 years ago
Quoted from lyonsden:

Not sure if these count as rare, but pulled these tokens out of a game. German and marked with Bally. I think they are pretty cool and will probably use them as key fobs for my games.

Were they in a pin or a Bally WULFF wall-mount slot machine?

#1065 6 years ago
Quoted from lyonsden:

In a pin (scattered in the cab and coin box). Didn't know that WULFF was a slot machine. They have/had slots in Germany? WULFF looks like an electronics entertainment company there: https://www.ballywulff.de/ If I recall, I got these from a Baywatch reimport, so something from the mid '90s.

Bally WULFF makes their own wall-mounted slot machines and they distribute many brands of amusement and gaming machines.

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#1086 6 years ago

They were part of Bally Manufacturing Corporation from the Acquisition of Guenter Wulff Apparatebau in 1972 until Bally Gaming International (slots & German wall machines) was spun off in the early 1990's. Eventually, Bally Wulff was spun off from Bally Gaming in the 2000's with the Bally name being licensed for use with the name Wulff at no charge into perpetuity.

Thus, not directly related to the Williams aquisition of Bally Pinball.

Nice Eurotech machine there. The newest I have are Technik 2000's.

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#1097 6 years ago
Quoted from DennisDodel:

hmmm....http://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/04/archives/metropolitan-briefs-man-guilty-in-shelton-firebombing-award-against.html

Probably sold the machines direct to an unscrupulous route operator (Believe it or not; there were a few.... thousand of them) instead of a Distributor. The op probably didn't pay for the machines so the brothers may have went to "collect".

#1103 6 years ago
Quoted from DennisDodel:

Thanks. I'm pretty much computer illiterate.

Don't sell yourself short, you're pretty good with Analog Computers..... Also known as Bally Bingo machines

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#1145 5 years ago

I'd say Cameron's signature devalues it way more than JPop's.

3 years later
#1343 2 years ago
Quoted from RCA1:

Another reason to make the VFW show at some point. Lots of rare games, including that one.

I highly suggest that anyone that wants to attend the VFW Show (www.vfwpinball.com) do so this year.

#1346 2 years ago
Quoted from pinwiztom:

Are tickets on sale yet?

Not yet. Check the www.vfwpinball.com site for updates.

Last year, with similar show dates, tickets went on sale August 2nd.

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#1366 1 year ago
Quoted from SilverUnicorn:

This AirBall game is pretty fun. Todd at TNT had some NIB a few years back.
Chris

Milwaukee Coin was selling NIB ones for $200.00 apiece just prior to shutting the doors in the early '80's. The Safe as well. The route op I worked for bought five. I got one of them.

They were so problem-prone that we had our machine movers remove a couple of them from locations and toss them right in the location's dumpsters.

I traded mine for a Williams Gold Rush ten+ years ago.

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#1380 1 year ago
Quoted from j_m_:

there was a pre-war game that someone brought to the kalamazoo show earlier this year where you had to light up the bumpers by touching the coiled spring-type wire around them (like a pop bumper, without the kick).
does anyone know the name of that game? I would love to try and source one for the home

Bally Bumper?

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#1488 3 months ago
Quoted from chad:

It appears that Barry had the push button type switch idea for sometime and then finally incorporated in Doctor Who.

Quoted from Gornkleschnitzer:

He did it on Fire! before that. Shooter lane target, if I recall.

They were used a bit earlier on the Harry Williams designed 1975 games Toledo & Valencia.

#1495 3 months ago
Quoted from zombywoof:

I've played Toledo. I never even knew there was a four player version until you posted that. According to IPDB it was a very short run.

I found out aboot it when Toledo came out. On the Toledo brochure, I could make out the word Valencia on the Score card.

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