Silverball Mania
Bally, 1980I've read a lot of the reviews talking about how great looking the machine is but how the game itself lacks anything of interest.
With what appears to be a decent deal available to me ($400), home use for the last four years, cabinet and back glass look like 9's, play field like an 8.5, I'm trying to decide if it is worth the effort to pick this machine up, even at a decent price.
I haven't played it yet, only pictures.
What do you think?
20150617_102636.jpgSBM was maybe the first "fast" Bally.
There is a ROM image that does not score you a letter each time you make the loop from Seymour Shadow. This makes a good game into a great game.
You would be an idiot to pass that game up for $400......around here they are $1000 with a terrible playfield.
Set it up to be fast and hard and then hold on. Give it some good slope, fresh rubbers, make sure posts are tight and shine the playfield. It will kick your butt enough.
I buy any pin that come up near me that I have not played much if the price is decent.
You just don't know if you will like a pin in a home environment unless you actually own it. Pins have grown on me for home use that I hated the first few times I played (Flash Gordon) and some pins that I loved playing in the arcade and always wanted to own got boring for me (Centaur).
I really enjoy it. It's in the restore queue along with a new playfield, plastics and backglass. Very nice early bally game. I got mine, missing the backglass for $350.00. That's a great price for the one you're looking at.
That was a great deal 20 years ago.That backglass is worth the price alone.IMO.It's a fun dink dink game.Change of pace.
Quoted from vid1900:There is a ROM image that does not score you a letter each time you make the loop from Seymour Shadow.
^^^This......otherwise, don't waste your time.
Quoted from vid1900:Also, make sure you perform the Bally service procedure to the opening of the Loop.
Can you elaborate, or is the service bulletin online? I have an SBM, no idea if the procedure was done. Thanks!
Mine came to me with the modification already done. I do not know that I have seen one where it was not done. The posts on mine are ones I have never seen before though. They are not the red plastic ones like are everywhere else on the pin. They are two piece metal ones that compress the rubber as you tighten down the screw that holds them in.
This game is amazing. I love playing it and I pump SO many tokens into it at the local public arcade. $400 is a deal for that game, they're much more expensive here.
Quoted from vid1900:Post some pics with the glass off.
I need to unpack it from a recent move. I will pull one of the posts and take some pictures of it in and out of the game.
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