I would put a raspberry pi multicade setup in there for about $75 for the time being or find a cheap board on eBay with a few hundred games on it. At least you will get some use out of it until you find the board you are looking for. It will probably have space invaders already on it. Game specific boards can be pricey

How many variations of these arcade style pins were made? I only know of one other which is Spooksville
Bally made Hi-Fi which also has a shaker but it isn’t a stand up.

Wow that’s dirty. What did you use to try and clean it?

I’ve used a ME and mean green. I’ve also used a ME with isopropyl alcohol and I’ve had good luck. It takes a lot of elbow grease and you have to do it a bunch of times. If all else fails try sanding it. ME is just a very fine sanding sponge so it wouldn’t hurt to try something a little more course. It would save time and you wouldn’t kill yourself trying to clean it.

Well if you ever decide to part with it let me know.

Are they both salvageable or is one for parts?

Nice grab.It’s really great to see people helping each other out.

The louder the better because it can really annoy my kids . All kidding aside I really do enjoy the mechanical back box animations. They add a lot to the game. But the two I have left are super loud. My Williams Line Drive was ridiculous. It sounded like an air raid. Especially in the room I had it in.

How’s the PF?

That doesn’t sound too bad. I just did an arcade cabinet that needed a lot of repair. It was fairly easy.

That’s nicer than I originally thought. The estate sale pictures made it difficult to tell. Well worth the $.

Tap on pictures to delete them from a phone. An X box should come up. If not, it may require two taps

Great grab. The balls clunking down after the bonus is the best.

I am so jealous. I am an EM guy at heart but that game is probably one of the exceptions. Oddly enough there is a project one in the Mr. Pinball Classifieds today.

I must have edited my post as you wrote yours because I had just got the daily email...oops. thanks for the heads up

Nice score. The Apollo Moonshot is always a big hit at my house when people are over and my wife even said she would prefer that we keep it. Which says a lot because she could care less what I do with my stuff.

I reached my “limit” today by filling a room according to my wife. She pretends she cares even though the multicade ended up in another room There’s always room for more. Realistically I just need to swap everything over to the bigger room and then she will pretend to be mad when I bring another one home.

I gutted an old Stern “1942” cabinet. I kept with the theme and repainted the wood cabinet and added webbing and some decals that were never there. It’s Raspberry Pi based and has thousands of games. I actually haven’t even programmed the joysticks yet because I’ve been sidetracked lately with lots of things. But that was my plan for today. No more excuses.

My Gottlieb Drop-a-Card arrived. One of Bob Cunningham’s workers dropped it off. It was a Craigslist’s find a few months back. Some guy inherited it after his father who was an electrical engineer passed away. It is an excellent original example and is very clean and responsive. The backglass is a 9/10 with no fading or flaking, cabinet probably an 8/9 because of only one decent sized scratch, and the playfield is a 9 with no planking or wear other than one pencil sized dot of paint missing on the middle of the playfield. Pictures to follow. I got a little over zealous and stripped the playfield right away otherwise I would have posted some.

I know some would prefer the AAB version but the price was right for such a great example.

Is that to vacuum out the project machines when they come through the door?

How does the carryover feature work with scoring from player to player with only one set of reels?

There is one on eBay right now too. Was this in CT?

Not a game I’ve played but I’ll have to skim through my multicade to see if it’s on there. It’s going to take me a lifetime to go through all the games. I instantly smelled cigarettes when I saw the ashtray. Weird how your brain processes things.

I vote Raspberry Pi multicade. I built one. Buy some new Happ joysticks and buttons with a USB encoder from EBay and a Rasberry Pi. My SD card for the Pi has Retropie installed with over 6000 games from Etsy.You could convert that whole thing cheap.
Rough estimate :
Happ joysticks with buttons $60-ebay
Raspberry Pi 3 or 3B+ $80 ?
SD card with games installed $20-Etsy
You would have to install either a TV or arcade monitor with an HDMI setup on it though as well and that’s about $175 new on eBay. But find a used TV on Craigslist.

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I wonder what the average length of time here on Pinside is before someone caved and got another one after their first. I didn’t even plan on having one and now I have six, a multicade and an EM rifle.

Nice score. What else did you have in the back of that Suburban that it barely fit? Those things are huge.

You truly stepped back in time to get that one. Look at that basement!

Not a pin but thanks to RonSS who picked this 72’ Midway Bullseye EM dart game up for me I was able to bring “Iggy” & “Hank” home. It needs a good cleaning, a line cord, and a little tweaking but it should be an easy fix. I wanted to have something a little different in the game room.
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Yup. I know there was pedestal option with a coin door built into it available as well. It doesn’t have the coin box. Do you have one of these style dart games? They made a bunch.
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What’s behind 4MBC?

WTH I’m never lucky enough to live near any advertised deals.

Morning pickup

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Yup

Here are some pics finally. For whatever reason someone painted 3/4 of the face frame of the head black but nothing else. I don’t think it actually looks too bad. Overall the cabinet is in pretty good shape.

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That’s what I do. It takes two minutes to install.

My 11 year old son put me to shame tonight in a game on 4MBC. He has the all time high score on that game in the house.

That thing is sweet. Does your bullseye have wired or wireless remotes? I picked one up that appears to be a former pedestal game with just button remotes but the remotes are disconnected. I haven’t dug in yet. I got side tracked with another project.

Great tunes. What’s the EM?

I’m still confused as to WTH lionman is

Tigerman! Thread please carry on...

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I think there already is one about using it to clean score reels

#knockout
#iknowsomeofyouhateselfies
#lookwhatfollowedmehome

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It was a two pin kind of weekend with no York show. I was on my way back from my second trip after a two and half hour drive and was almost home when I was rear ended and pushed into a truck in front of me that had its rear bumper made out of a steel I-beam. The truck was lifted so I went under it. It was then nice enough to take off.

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Thanks! My 13 year old co-pilot and I came out unscathed and so did the pin. I had to go to the tow yard the next day and get the game out the back. I brought it home and set it up and it fired right up. It just needs a good shop job. I’m shocked it fit into my wife’s Subaru Crosstrek when I went to go pick it up from the tow yard. It looks like I may be on the hunt for a new pin hauler.

For what reason would she get a ticket? Following too close? Maybe? If that’s even a thing where you live. But that’s a stretch. The driver would have to been intentionally riding your tail. We were in heavy traffic and it was just unfortunate.

It’s definitely a thing but I assure you it’s seldom ticketed for.

This stuff would clean that cabinet up nice.

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What’s the painted teel (Bally?) cab all the way to the left?

I’m feeling pretty Fan-tas-tic thanks to @colsond3. It was nice meeting you and mikepmcs yesterday.

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You picked that up quick.

Secretly I wasn’t helping lift at all hoping it would fall on both of us so I could see your litigation skills in action in front of Judge Judy. All kidding, aside. I’m glad I could help. That was a dicey operation.

Now you can put the home version and the regular version side by side. That will be cute

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This may be a dumb question but what makes it 2 in 1? Can you play other games on it with the joysticks?

Joined the middle poop club . I hope this machine isn’t a forecast for 2021.

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That better have been followed by a cheesy gordita crunch

Not a pin but working and FREE Thanks to a fellow Pinsiders heads up and it was just the next town over. My wife jokingly asked me what I was doing for the day at breakfast and I told her “oh, driving down the east coast again to pick up a pin” and she just shrugged and laughed. I hadn’t actually planned on getting anything today. The picture is from where I picked it up from.

Edit: I actually made money. It had $12 worth of quarters in the coin box.

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It was interesting getting it in the finished basement. I had to take it apart in three and separate the coin door base from the alley. I was hoping I could have left it in two but it couldn’t make the swing. We then slid the alley through a window. After getting the cabinet downstairs we realized it was too wide for the door by a couple inches. In order to fit it I had to take the decorative trim around the head to slide it in. I probably should have taken measurements . I really didn’t want to move it back out

I know how you feel. I just moved a shuffle alley that weighs about the same and after that I am seriously considering getting an escalera.

I kind of miss mine. Somebody took some effort in their cabinet repaint.

Picked up this oddball today. Should clean up okay. Has cabinet damage in a few spots on one side. There is light rust throughout the apron which should come off easy. There is some rust around the instruction card holders I’m concerned about. I need to figure out the best way to get it off since it’s in a weird place and I don’t want to damage the metal around them. Suggestions welcome.

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Nice!Most importantly...where are the PF and BG pics?

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Nice grab. pinhead52 is going to be jealous. He only has about 8 of them

How’s the knockout playfield? Most I’ve seen are beat.

It’s nice to see it whole again

New addition to the family

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Can’t beat it when you leave after breakfast and you’re home before lunch. I like those kind of pick ups.

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Why are there so many pins on Long Island? It doesn’t make sense. A fairly large operator must been out there at some point and sold everything off.

More importantly…what happened to your username. The old one was better