I'm curious how long it will take to get my machine. I've seen reports that machines in the 60's have been delivered. I'm #86 and completely paid for. Hoping for delivery in late November/early December. Anybody have insight into how they prioritize the building and shipping of the machines?

Well... TNA CE #86 arrived with no shipping damage today... My experience with R&L was a positive one... My next phone calls and emails have been to Spooky to address some issues that I hope will be simple to fix... The left scoop switch randomly engages on the switch test and in gameplay the switch intermittently works. Sometimes it recognizes that I hit the scoop, sometimes not. The coil works in the coil test for the left scoop. I'm not sure if I have a bad resistor somewhere because when I ran the coil test, I got to the sling - core left and it fired multiple coils. They didn't fire all at once, they fired in sequence one after another...I've checked the connections in the back box and checked the connections under the playfield... The game played fine for a few games, then the left flipper started to stick, then all this other nonsense... Any thoughts?

Spooky got back to me... AJ pointed me in the right direction and I discovered a wire on the left scoop optical sensor that was pressed up against a sharp solder joint on the sensor board. It was obviously sending signals everywhere they weren't supposed to go and caused the sensor to not recognize the ball and other random coils to fire. Either way, it's fixed and #86 is fully functional. Thank you AJ and Spooky. I remembered why I love this game. Simple and frustratingly difficult all at the same time...

Quick question and forgive me if this has been asked before: Does Spooky put Easter eggs in the high score section of the code based on information that they have on you? There are very few people that I know that are familiar with the movie Hackers. I created my screen name and email when I had AOL back in the 90's and have kept it every since. The high scores on my TNA are as follows:

Grand Champion - LIONMAN - 2,000,004
High Score 1 - CRASHOVRID - 1,500,003
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High Score 2 - ZERO COOL - 1,000,002
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High Score 3 - ACID BURN - 800,001
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Now, anybody who knows that movie will instantly recognize these names and will know what you are talking about.

Is this just a happy coincidence or did Spooky actually understand what my screen name meant and throw in a few Easter eggs?

Now that was funny!

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Correct. The ball should auto-launch on multi-ball and ball save. Have you tried the coil test yet? I believe it's the auto-fire coil.

Question... I got GC on TNA tonight and it blanked out my score until after I entered my initials. Is this normal? I had no idea what my score was until after. See attached photo; player number 1. Code 1.5.0.

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Thanks for the quick response Scott. I sincerely appreciate you always being willing to help out. Another thing, thank you for this amazing game. This was my first NIB pin and I've known that I wanted it since 2018 when I played it at a show here in California. This game will never be leaving my collection.