May be worthwhile to put an ad up on KLOV. It's certainly a hot title at the moment, but they do come up for sale occasionally.

I played ICB at DanD's house recently. That game is so difficult! I wouldn't want one because it would drive me insane.

Some people can be stingy with their games. Especially a title that's so desirable these days, people may want to try squeezing every possible penny out of the seller.

No. I talk to him daily. When he gets things in I want, I get them.

I picked up a Zeeks peak playfield years ago, and I have a used ICB control panel. Now all I need is a cabinet, power supply, main board, and a glass. Some day I will make something out of it.

Good luck in your search for ICB. Bump

My understanding is that they are pretty simple machines

I was one of the buyers of these. The guy actually managed to find three of them(!) at once. He salvaged the best parts from each for the one he was going to keep and then fixed up the other two for sale. He put a lot of work into them, like building new bases and back doors and fixing the mechanics. Mine's played fine without any major issue since I brought it home.

Phoenix Arcade has made a replacement glass with screened graphics:
http://www.phoenixarcade.com/art.htm#ICE_COLD_BEER_

And there is replacement sideart floating around.

Mechanics seem to be an issue though. From what I understand, it's hard to find the exact same motors now, and it's difficult to refit the gears onto the rotors.

I'd like to find a source for the telescoping rod in the game.

Someone has built a new version of the game called Space Base, so it must not be impossible to find or recreate all of its components. Pretty cool:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=140466.0

In any case, Ice Cold Beer was the best game room purchase I've made. I wouldn't sell it for double what it's worth. It's my absolute favorite game and I'd get rid of all my pins and vids before it. I don't think you'll regret buying one when you find it.

Amazed at that thread and whats been done!

Im not a member, and the last post shared difficulty in reaching the person who created the final version.

Anyone know who this is and how to reach them?

I have been buzzing for 20 years to make a wall mounted version with interchangeable "playfields" of both art, and hole layout,
to allow for large branding diversity, and licensing. Variety of play with this, and no floor footprint, where part of my goals.

Anyone want to consider a project?

I saw some repro motors for sale online recently, can't find them now. They were pretty reasonable, about $80 IIRC

That sounds like a cool project.

For a while, I was kicking around an idea to make an ICB cabinet with an X-Men theme. I'd want to have a DMD mounted in the top of the cabinet for additional immersion, and reuse the DMD animations from the Stern game and maybe the the Zen Pinball FX2 X-Men titles to fill it. My idea was to have the X-Men face a bunch of villains represented by each of the holes (plenty of DMD animations from the pins, and audio from the X-Men cartoons to make that happen) with Magneto at the top hole, and then maybe have some additional modes, like you spontaneously need to get a ball into a specific hole in a certain time limit for a bonus or Magneto randomly screws with the bar or whatever.

With modern tech, you could easily bling it out with RGB LEDs, edge lighting, etc. to make it really flashy. I think it would be cool if the game recorded the inputs from the joysticks on successful runs to holes, then have the game "play itself" by replaying those recordings to the motors when the cabinet is running in its attract mode.

That would be amazing!

There was someone who had one listed FT on KLOV. I think he was in Virginia.

I have an Ice Cold Beer for sale!! I'm not silent.

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What about this version? You said in the first post "any version"

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I'd be interested in doing a custom DIY version and would love to collaborate on ideas. Can we start a new thread?

Edit: here we go: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/diy-ice-cold-beer-type-game#post-3260814

Ice version plays smoother, IMO.

Yep, that is the one I have, the i.c.e. version. I like it a bit better than the taito original. That one is missing the side art, but I have nos side art you could have scanned and recreated.

Agreed... It also has a couple more holes too.

Can you buy the ICE machine NIB?

Nope... They didn't make very many of them. I have a NOS stash of extras that includes front glass, all the holes, belts, side art and tmolding.

You don't see much for these come up for sale very often.

Awesome!

Congrats, which version did you end up with?

Nice!

No problem.... Staples can probably scan it pretty easily, it isn't huge.

Glad you got one. I put a few games on Ralph's a few weeks ago, and it's a fun game. Are you going to put it out on route?

Hopefully in a bar. Because in an arcade environment, both Zeak's Peke and ICB did not make much money. Even after we installed the tickets dispensers. As I recall, the games only setting was only like 1 ticket per hole or every other hole. Which would never approach the desired 7 tickets average per player per coin.

I'm sure the ICE made game offered better settings. But in a paid environment, the game is a novelty at best.

With all this talk about ICB I had to go and play a few games on mine. I had to tighten up the belts fist, so it would work right.

Congrats on the pick-up. I have the ICE version that needed some work when I got it. The ICE folks were quite helpful and I was able to order replacement parts and factory sideart. It's a beautiful machine and won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

Marco has repro motor/gear box. http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/59-00063-001

Zeke's Peak just popped up on Ebay right here in Los Angeles for $2500. I'm so tempted to buy it, this is seriously my favorite arcade game of all time... somebody stop me.

Also, if you route out an ICB/ZP you are not a very bright person.

Are the dimensions listed anywhere on the net (for the ICE version)?

Yes, I want to know that too????

In a bar environment, competitive games are very popular ( ever hear of darts or pool?). ICB has the potential of doing very well if casual gambling occurs. And just like tournament pinball, players will pay to practice.

The problem is the game is easily mastered by some and never by others. It therefore has a rather short lived earning potential.

the one that was on location near me was always being played, the bar gave a free beer if you beat it

Wish they had one around me. I'd be drinkin for free all day.

Maybe I should put mine in the local pub and convince them to do just that.....

There are adjustments on the ICE version to make it quite difficult. It can make the bar jump, reduce the time, etc. I still havent made it to the top hole on medium difficulty.