What does an EM Cleopatra go for these days? I know they're harder to find than their SS counterparts.

Just picked up this gem today. Backglass is flawless, as much as I can tell.

Game resets, but then autoresets once the score motor is activated through a playfield switch. I have a feeling the game will be a PITA to work on.

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No. I paid $400--which I thought was a square deal. The story goes:

The woman who selling it wanted it gone. It was her husband's who had passed away. According to her, it had been in her basement since the early '80s. She and her kids played it until it stopped working, and it just sat and sat. The thing that made it difficult, was that she wasn't selling it directly. She had asked a friend of a friend to help her sell it in Letgo, so it was tough to coordinate with both to make a deal.

I just got it working today. The problem was that the start button had broken off a piece of plastic, and forced the start switch closed. Once fixed, the game worked flawlessly. (Talk about a lucky break...)

I don't think the game was played all that much. For an EM, it's very VERY clean inside--almost new. Backglass is near perfect, and the playfield only has a bit of wear above the two kickout holes--not even down to the wood. It's dirty as sin though. I don't think they ever took the glass off the playfield.

Congrats on your find! Glad you were able to find one local. That back glass is what dreams are made from.

If I were a betting man, I'd say that chrome is probably/definitely original.

I think Pinball Resource sells legs for like $15 per leg. Definitely worth it to have super shiny brand new properly sized legs!

I was really surprised when I saw those last 2 ebay auctions close at over $2,000. Neither of the games were even shopped.

I haven't played Joker Poker in a while, but I enjoyed it immensely. From a rules perspective, they're both very similar: Complete a thing to score it's bonus value. All objectives need to be completed to score the bonus value--otherwise no bonus is scored.

I think for Joker Poker, you really only have to hammer down all the drop targets of a similar suit to get the respective bonus, but Cleopatra requires the player to match both the rollovers AND the drops, so the player needs to make consecutive shots back up to the playfield as well as aim for the dangerous targets.

They're both fantastic games, imho. Personally, I think I'd rather have Joker Poker since I love drop targets, but Cleopatra is no slouch either.

I know I'm super late to the party here, but if I recall correctly, there are two different ones because Gottlieb converted their continuous duty relay coils to DC voltage at some point in the mid to late 70s. You'll see that some Gottliebs have a couple of Diodes wired in facing each other in parts of the game and in the schematic. You can convert some of the non rectified relays to be rectified, and use a higher Ohms coil so it'll never burn up again.