Superman was at the NW Pinball Show last weekend.

A Superman was listed for the Texas show, but the guy decided not to bring it at the last minute. I was hoping to bring mine to the Atlanta show next week but I haven't finished restoring it yet. There was a very nice Space Riders in Allentown last month that I would have bought if I had lived closer.

Atarians was at TPF.

I just played a Superman at the Strong Museum in Rochester, it wasn't bad for the era.

i am going to try to have my superman ready for next years PATZ

My experience with those pins back in the day was how difficult they were to keep running. I had a Time 2000 and if you sneezed it would stop running. My guess is people don't want to risk moving them. To your point about the wood, my experience was that the playfields and cabinets were as well made as anyone else's. Sure love Superman, but honestly all the other ones were pretty awful and were hard to sell and keep running. The artwork sure was nice though and I thought having the score down at the apron was cool.

personally, I like the way atari did things. The manuals would go step by step if you had a problem to help you troubleshoot what to check and fix. Only probably was the board was in the bottom of the cab. if you didn't have the cardboard protector over it, it could short out from screws falling on it. but overall not bad. Beasts to move since I think they are all widebodies.

Hmmm. My Middle Earth had a plastic protector on it.

The first show I ever went to was Pinball at the Zoo, about 6 or 7 years ago. After looking around the show for a game to buy, I decided on a Middle Earth. By the time I walked back to it to buy it for $250, it was already gone. I ended buying two of them for a bit more than that a few months later (I love the art on the game). I no longer have a working Middle Earth, but still have a mostly populated playfield resting against my arcade wall.

I had a middle earth, I bought it for 75 broken. I fixed it, and sold it for 150.

Space Riders was at the Game Warp tourney in Orlando, Florida one year.

Superman was at the Arcade and Pinball Expo (APE) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida one year.

Interesting games to play.

I'm bringing Middle Earth and Superman to California Extreme, in case anyone is itching to play an Atari pin...

I see Hercules and Space Riders at just about every show.

I just picked up a space riders and middle earth. Both were in storage since about 1980. Both are in awesome condition with no wear on pf's or bg, or cabs, though a bit dirty. The manuals are by far the most thorough I have ever seen. and I love the fact that all of the components are plugged rathered than soldiered. want to work on the flipper assembly, unscrew it and unplug it. no problems
My plan is to sell one and keep one. I think I over paid by reading the other posts, but at 200 a game, I think the BG's are worth that as art to me. both titles have super cool art, and both have really cool layouts for 76 or 77 whenever they were made.
If you are around west mi, and are interested in one, let me know. Open for trade ideas also
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I really thought this was a thread about that horrible emo band that did the cover of Boys of Summer being crappy live.

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