looking awesome John
will there be 90's style backbox hinges or going for the 80's bolt on only?
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Spaceballs: The Pin
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Quoted from swinks:will there be 90's style backbox hinges or going for the 80's bolt on only?
I originally had the 90s style hinges on it, and the backbox and game ended up being so heavy I prefer removing the backbox entirely for transport, so I ended up going with no hinges.
There are only 4 or 5 connectors to disconnect, so it's pretty easy.
Thanks guys! I think I'll be able to get the playfield back in the cabinet tomorrow at some point and slide the glass in.
Louisville, KY
It's alive! It was early this morning and I didn't have the overhead shop lights on yet so the LEDs washed it out a little, but here is a short video. More to come!
Quoted from mcbPalisade:The flipper gap looks huge, is it a standard value?
Yep it's the normal gap.
Melbourne
Wanted to give you all a heads up, some local buddies are coming over tomorrow night (Saturday the 29th) to playtest Spaceballs and we are going to try to live stream it on twitch.
It's my first ever stream, so I have no idea if it will work. It will be at: https://www.twitch.tv/wolfmarsh
We will try to start streaming around 8 or 8:30PM eastern time.
Thanks guys! Glad you enjoyed it!
There is a laundry list of videos and sounds to add before SFGE too, plus hot glue some connectors. 
1 week later
Just wanted to let you know I played this for an hour yesterday and I was cackling like a crazy person. It is awesome, and I hope I get to play it again when it's "finished"!!
Quoted from DavidCPA:Can you post the video of gameplay from Saturday to youtube?
I did a recording that i'll post in a few days.
This game was the highlight of the showfloor for me.
Quoted from TecumsehPlissken:Congrats John , Nice work!!
Thanks! Did I just miss you this year or were you not able to make it?
Quoted from BorgDog:Congrats John! Was great fun to play and very nice chatting with you as well.
You too! Always nice to meet more homebrew people!
Here are some audits from Spaceballs this weekend:
391 games played with 489 total players. The left flipper button was hit 18,982 times, right flipper hit 22,705 times. The warp ramp was completed 477 times, scoop was hit 2,049 times, and the Spaceball One ship had around 1400 balls go through it. The spinner switch saw 12,165 activations.
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:Thanks! Did I just miss you this year or were you not able to make it?
We missed this year because we finally got married & were in Bahamas
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this is amazing. gameplay video? So my friend's 18yo son was asking what i was freaking about and i said "somebody made a spaceballs pinball" and he went "what's Spaceballs?" WTF now he's being forced to watch it and laughing his ass off.
4 months later
Hey all! Spaceballs is up for a best homebrew TWIPY! If you like the game, please consider tossing me a vote!
Randers
Quoted from Phantasize:Was there ever a gameplay video posted for us to see? I haven't been able to find it?
Pinball Undesirables streamed it a bit at SFGE, but I can make a more in depth video at some point. I'm not a great streaming personality so I'll need to enlist help.
Quoted from Capn12:Absolutely got my vote! Played it at SFG in Atlanta, and man you've done the theme justice, sir! Well done.
Thanks!! If you are going to be at SFGE this year, it will be back with some more upgrades! I've fixed the two places balls kept getting stuck, and I have added a lot of new areas to the software thanks to feedback.
I also voted for your spaceballs pin,good luck! I love the theme and how you executed everything to turn it into a pinball machine. Great job!
You got my vote! I have to applaud your efforts on following thru and finishing it up, I have followed so many threds of homebrew pins that just never get finished after all the work that goes into them. Yours looks like it plays really fast, I always loved that movie. 
Thank you all very much!!
I continue to tweak the gameplay as more seasoned players get to play it. One piece of feedback I heard was that balls coming out of the Spaceball One lock would go SDTM too much. I had a ball saver there, but just having them drop out of Spaceball One and hit the playfield was a problem.
I pulled an old wireform out of the spare parts pile and modified it to do the job.
I'm working on some higher quality pics of Spaceballs to post, I realized recently that I don't have a lot of them.
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