Have you thought Treasure Cove? If restored to collectors quality a price not a factor there machines look AMAZING..especially his examples of Indy!

I love Indy so much and as crazy as it sounds i hope to have two in my collection on day...one for the gameroom and my own personal showpiece example!

shanetastic has one, but i think he plans on getting buried in his.

Haha they need it because their vids are a super low class affair. But they aren't in the video business so no harm.

Of course you could just get their shine kit and restore it yourself. My NF was not affected by Novus and the Shine Kit did it up nice.

I think you'd have a lot more fun buying a routed IJ and doing it up yourself. You may end up paying $9K in the end once you add up all the parts, but at least you can do it over time.

To be honest restoring, fixing, crying, tinkering, punching the wall, giving up, getting back in, ordering parts every 4 days instead of all at once for some reason...that's half the fun of buying a machine.

so i'm not the only one?

Hah.. I have 2 orders on my porch now from different vendors, two in transit, and one order that hasn't shipped.. not counting the 5 orders already received and put into place for an IJ I got 2 weeks ago that was technically 100% working when I got it Sure would help some (but, impatience is more the driver here admittedly) if the vendors had similar inventories.. Marco's, Pinball Life, Mad Amusements, Bay Area Amusements all getting my business due to the different specialties

Definitely in the as much fun to work on it as play camp.

Damn you Path! how many times must your broken ass anger me?!?

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Best wizard mode ever! ONE BILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIOOOOOONNNNNNN!!

The more I think about it the more I agree with you.

I don't see that animation very often!

As for path issues....I've never owned one but the path in the wild is bound to fail at some point. Of course in your home I think it would probably be ok for a long long time....although donjagra should know more than me.

Problem with this one is there is something connected to it. It moves on start up so the motor is hooked up to it. Heck, it may just be the diverter that send the ball to the path becasue it never goes there.

As for this game screwing my pooch hole for eternal life, it happened twice last night.

Ha...well these days...I would say ON THIS GAME, a solid 8.5, maybe a flaccid 9. Games like TZ same level. You put me on an Elvis/Tron or something like that I'm a 3 and confused.

Of course the machine makes such a huge difference. This one isn't that quick and a nice amount of tilting/saving can be done. Slow speed can help quite a bit, but a working path would net me more extra balls so i call it close to even.

The main thing to learn I think is what is going to happen when the ball is _____. Wherever it is, you need to know where it's going, and what will happen when it gets there. And never hit both of your flippers at the same time.

The eternal life multi ball is only after you complete all the modes and I only pull it off every once in a while. I have never scored the billion because it is so hard to do the path of adventure during multi ball.

If you get the path working, it is rarely an issue in a home environment, but it has a lot of moving parts and optos.

Key is hitting the path right after it starts...that way you can just hold each side down and you're within the 30 second ball save. Balls being shot back into play also can take care of the INDY switches. Obviously a lot easier said than done though.

The problem is getting all the modes finished in three balls and getting to try. I can count all of my eternal lives on my hands. I need to spend more time playing my IJ.

We used to play one almost every Friday after work and closest I ever got was one mode away/something like 430mil. Jealous of some of the skills here!

Here ya go, one up close to here...looks pretty clean.

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I played it only twice, and I got 4 million and 6 million. I say I'm a 4.

Man, I think I'm pretty decent at this game and it still kicks my ass regularly. I have yet to reach eternal life. I've completed 11 of 12 modes about three times but have never managed all 12... and I can hit the mode saucer all day long... about 75% from the left and maybe 50% from the right flipper. Maybe I just enjoy playing the modes so much that Im never in a rush to complete hem all.

To date, my best showing is 933 million and change. I was just a few seconds away from my first billion ever
I don't play it religiously but I can usually get in the 500-700 million range pretty regularly. As TheLaw pointed out, IJ is not a super fast machine. I plan to CC my PF very soon and this may change things a bit.

As for PoA. I wrestled with mine for a couple of years. I swapped motors, tried different flipper optos, I even thought it was a mechanical issue and looked for obstructions. It would move well in one direction and jerky in the other. Then I finally installed a new PoA opto board (the one mounted to the back panel under the PoA) and it is now super responsive!

The reply on my machine is 587 mil. 4 mil is... um....

I was at a pinball party, and an IJ was there.