Get a cobrapin and use a raspberry pi or something to write rules in mission pinball framework. It will save you a ton of time.
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Quoted from MrBigg:I have no idea what you just told me, but it sounds really cool.
Cobrapin: https://pinballmakers.com/wiki/index.php?title=CobraPin
You can order them from a pinsider:
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1254-cobra-amusements
It's a controller for homebrew pinball games. Cheap and works great. You can then use a small computer, like a Raspberry Pi or something of that nature, to run rules to control this system using the python based Mission Pinball Framework.
https://missionpinball.org/
You will wire your lamps, coils and switches to the controller, then write a simple configuration to make the rules. This approach will save you months, if not years, of development time.
Read up on cobrapin projects here on pinside. I did a Middle Earth rebuild with the cobrapin hardware and Mission Pinball Framework.
There are other homebrew systems, like the P3-ROC, that you could look into as well that can also be driven by Mission Pinball Framework.
Quoted from MrBigg:You are so far over my head I had to sit down to finish reading that. I'll check it out, but I think until my skills progress, I'm going to stick with my easy version of this plan.
That's cool. Just suggesting an easier route.
It's funny that you mentioned your custom guitar business. I'm down to tear into pinball machines with wild abandonment, but I'm agonizing over rebuilding my old guitar from high school. 
Quoted from MrBigg:I think it comes down to one thing... our comfort level. Everything you mentioned about new programming is so far out of my comfort zone, that I'm not prepared, nor get what's going on yet. However, I've built so many guitars, and repaired so many, that it is second nature to me. I just know how all the workings are, and I'm completely in my zone. I'd assume that it's the same for you with pinball?
Pretty much. The idea of reusing the old controller hardware seems to me to be a bigger headache, since you will be dealing with bad connections, broken solder joints, missing or added mechs, switches and/or lamps, etc. I think that if you go with a different controller and rework the wiring harness, you will have an easier time, even with a learning curve on the programming side. That's my approach when rebuilding a game like this(look at my work on Middle Earth, for example).
But, I'm rooting for you either way, and will keep an this project!
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