I owned an ECLE for a couple years. Picked it up right from the factory.

I love JJP, but I’d avoid the first run WOZ games. It’s a great game, however I’d wait for one with the 2.0 boards.

With mine, I had one of the original Bader playfields. So that had issues. I had a light board go bad within the first few days (free replacement). The playfield had issues within months (Jack sent a new unpopulated one). I had other boards go bad, and I had to buy spares because the most frustrating thing was when one would go out right before I was having people over (grrrrr).

The last straw for me was the months of debugging the resets. I didn’t play a game just to play for more than 4 months. They were all debugging games with what looked like random resets. New boards, still resetting. Finally I was taking videos looking for the issue, and the left VUK would kick, the game would reset (not really), and then it would come back on when the ball was about half way down the left flipper. The left wireform was touching the connector on the back of the crystal ball. So I took it out, and the connector was solid as a rock. So I cut out the hot glue on it, and most of the pins in the CB circuit board came with it. The pins were just resting against the board, and would occasionally lose connection due to vibration. A disconnecting and reconnecting crystal ball will reset the I/O board. So a defect (assembly of the ramp touching the connector), and I had to buy a new screen and cable (I was out of warranty so I paid). All the time working with Frank. All the parts. By then I was soured and I sold the game a little while after that.

They worked out a lot of stuff since then. And I did like the game, but when all that goes on, it just wasn’t worth it to me.