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Game - for sale
Stern Stars TRADES WELCOMED +/- Cash, E.Ms, S.S, arcades
Added: 2022-03-13 14:51:31 UTC
• Ended: March 26th, 2022
Condition: Fully shopped/refurbished
Price
$ 2,000
Up for grabs is an above average 1978 Stern Stars, an amazing technical and tournament game. This particular machine is extremely nice, and plays fast and furious. It has been upgraded to LEDs, Flicker Free LED boards, new XPIN displays and has a new rectifier board in it. If you are local this is much nicer than the one at CrabtownUSA.
Pros:
Plays lightning fast!
Playfield is near perfect, but has some touchup in the center around the bonus countdown.
New rectifier boards and LED light board
Fully LED’d
New XPIN displays
Backglass is very nice. Not pristine, but it looks great plugged in and viewed from playfield distance.
Extremely nice cabinet with very few bumps/bruise. A little paint rubbed off here and there but I would rate it as a 8.5 out of 10 in my own meaningless rating scale.
I messed with the bells and the sound on this is extremely good.
Cons:
Pop bumper works, but could use adjustment that I’m not smart enough to figure out.
I have replaced several flakey light sockets, but a few will inevitably need to be tweaked after this is moved.
I have a brand new LED board in the back, but even so the green Star is not coming on. The same happened on the old board. This (most likely) means there is a break in the wire somewhere between the backbox and those two inserts. The switch for the star registers and scores appropriately, only the 2 linked insert lights do not work.
Could use a new sheet of playfield glass. Not bad, but not perfect.
Trades/Sale Wants:
Trades are preferred +/- cash. I may consider late model 1970s E.M. Gottiliebs, especially drop target games. Other early Solid State games would be considered with Deference to a nice Black Hole, Space Shuttle, and Paragon. I would look at pretty much anything, but have my preferences.
Might be interested in a deal including arcades, backglasses, marquees, and other arcade stuff. I’m looking for you to come my way.
I am not interested in shipping at this time.
Here is a walkthrough of the machine:
Here is some (poor) gameplay of the machine:
If you made it this far thanks for reading my ad!
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