tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259464359028990652024-02-19T09:38:05.263-07:00The Quarter ByteFastRMacR's Arcade BlogFastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-26551132209395161032021-12-18T02:00:00.115-07:002023-08-31T19:21:07.432-06:00 Turn to Stone<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She is stamped EME3627. Bally produced only 3250 of these beautiful games in October 1981 and they threw everything they knew into it. This one had done arcade time in the day, then it had been stored in a dank place for too many years. It was October 2021 when I was handed this Medusa to “shop” it ready. Working at Game Exchange the last 4 months with Rob had brought a completion to the line, so some oldies were yanked down from the shelves here and there —basket cases that would require a lot of attention and effort. This one came back from a storage in Missouri.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her butt was cracked open and the rear particle board was blistered out, and the whole game wreaked of old barn odor. I convinced the bosses that whilst I worked the playfield restore on my bench there, I should take the cabinet home and let it air out in the dry Colorado sunshine on my back porch. I could there too more easily tend to the wood repairs with my home tools. Slow sanding, wood glue, clamps and popsicle sticks (literally perfect for the ply layer sides and securing points for the large fills), wood filler, more sanding, priming, the ass of this girl got solid and shiny perfect and she started smelling much much better. I know too well what good this sunshine and dry air here can do. I couple of runs to a skillful Home Depot paint man, I also had a perfect match to the blood-red magenta in a can, aptly matching the head, the oxidized fade, and the factory fresh hues.*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had hauled my HUO Breakshot into Game Exchange. Rob had a good buyer for it - a customer of his recovering from brain cancer was buying a sweet collection back. There was also no Capcom testing unit at work there, so this Capcom Breakshot served as a test repair for some other pinball games while I shopped it sweet clean. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then this fighting hero man unfortunately had the cancer return --</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he could not even play pinball again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was about the same time I learned of my own precious German Shepherd’s diagnosis: hemangiosarcoma.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The job had been difficult enough through the summer, trying to get my bones up everyday just to drive to that silly time clock. Leaving my two Shepherds alone for the 5-6 hours was bearable, but cut against my entire gain of 30 years working from home just so I could give my two dogs the complete day outside. Dog door sufficed for freedoms to pee, but the tired human home late made the daily walks difficult. My dearest most cherished life became ill while I wasted time. Busying myself so much for someone else I lost track of the real reasons I wake up and keep busy. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like my dad ten years ago, it was aggressive and unstoppable, where only palatial care and time are important. Real life games and I’m worried about some …game.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pl-IErWc4U0" width="320" youtube-src-id="pl-IErWc4U0"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Empathetic as dog people are, I asked if I could just take the entire machine home and work on it so I could be next to and tend my dying baby girl. When the Breakshot sale fell, and the odd hours repairing the Medusa became brain damage to account for that stupid time clock, I just negotiated a straight trade. Medusa was already dear just from time working on it at home on the porch with Ella. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was also a better pinball machine. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Making sure they all live again, fixing individualized maladies and abuse, overriding the neglect and disrepair, all with tender care and passion. This hobby is about resurrections and love - living for the play and the smile.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">So 2021 ended in a very sad death. Despair of unappetizing days set in for 2022 and my 3 year old Shepherd. Thank god I have him --bonds are strong and the living is deeply clarified with loss and pain. My life plan revolves around my German Shepherds, not the games, yet once again a pinball game takes the note of the life and the loss. I should write inside the Medieval cabinet: for Django. I most certainly have written in this Medusa. By the time I could even get back to the bench there and that time clock job I had decided —by my January absence alone— I wasn’t commuting for this anymore. Happiness to put tools back on my bench and start my own clock again.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Medusa sits front now in my shop next to the Blackout. Parts are accumulated and ready for assembly (including a new CPR plastic set to go with the corrected reproduction, properly-sexy, back glass. PinDoctor rotisserie is soon here to put that playfield back sweet (and finally take it off its bench-leaning space). I’ve ordered it in blood red powder coat just to pay homage to this Medusa, and it will break-in good for the 3 swaps I have yet to do. During the duress of the job exit, I had gone over to friend Ben’s sandblaster and cleaned the legs, had him powder coat them black matte textured —just beautiful black. Had him weld a couple of wings to the top of the 2 back box bolts (no wrenches needed), powder coated them the same great black. Before completion I’ll have to decide whether to put the missing Bally hinges back or finagle some some old-style latch (leaning to a Williams interior catch bar). More later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">*Honest decision here, as sometimes you have to make a point restoring something original. The pint of Behr match I have has done the best places well, ie. interior sides, back box, and back side. The left side is not bad and includes the patent applied for sticker, but the right and front are weathered. I should strip the thing now, purchase the $130 stencil and repaint the entire game. That’s a lot of work in a space I can’t make to do it …just to make 2 more sides “pretty.” Like the cancer and the dedication to this fight against time, I want this game to show its war wounds. There’s a character in this wood and I want the contrasts of perfectly new clean next to perfectly aged fine. I want the player to know he’s toying with a veteran. I want to define this thing we call pinball as —indeed what it is— subjective. It is my game and I love to see the original scratches tastefully preserved alongside the sweet discreet upgrades and detailed fixes. What’s pretty is the playfield and the best tastes for a Bally classic, the game. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">War wounds and medals of honor, never-ending and always ready. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">For Ella</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">July 2012 - barcade business plans pizza place game museum investing...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><Star Trek NG .. how much?></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Clean and working 100%.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This becomes a bulk purchase for me out of this warehouse haul of his. He brings all machines back and stores them, selling them out in previous deals and fast to Denver locals. He loves the road and has many many contacts around the country since 1974. A good man and friends to me through many transactions/video game hauls, he gave me the pick of the 4 Star Treks sitting there that day I paid him for our 5-machine deal, even letting me swap-in the choicest backglass from another one. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yeah big haul for me too: RFM just for a playfield upgrade swap for mine/resale, others were top pins for the bar to be built. You bet they were in great condition and the deal was good, but these like many his finds were off-op used stored and that was because of a problem: eg <i>not</i> working lol.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">(just another great scrubbing and tech'ing project: eg <i>condition, condition, condition.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gilbert Sanchez ... The Wolf Man</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">..free world now dancing with wolves open roads forever..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Set to easy teardowns & work in my newly build garageshop 2012-13, I started gathering parts for the TZ ETC, ripping into the Star Trek, rebuilding the pistol launcher first, with nice polished ramps, new lock bar, parts setting blanket-tabled on the <i>Breakshot </i>rightside --pecking at the TZ too hoping to get these 2 done first then get the other 2 in here for the same pin-doctor treatments and polishes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">So <i><a href="https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2357" target="_blank">Star Trek The Next Generation</a></i> became the last focal point finish from sometime 2013 thru May 2014 before I tore the home shop bench down entirely and my couch by July. Read this MM <a href="https://quarterbyte.blogspot.com/2016/06/maddening-payne-medieval-bliss.html">post</a> and you'll get my drift about my restoration passions and what I put into each of my pinball games. I loved getting so much all back together and firing cannons with all lights flashing and all switches nominal/replaced, new 44s/rubbers and tasty LED upgrades. Yep, flippers rebuilt. The DMD is bright. Clean as a whistle and Novus just about everywhere shiny. MM got the rare-available-then color LCD upgrade so the TZ will have to wait as well, sorry. Life has shifted into the Neutral Zone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I've been pretty good rejuvenating many pinballs now this one like a Romulan Mephisto! Ramps, plastics, ramps, targets, switches, toys, switches, ramps, wow, complicated games fascinate the engineer, <a href="https://www.ipdb.org/files/2357/Williams_1993_Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation_Partial_Manual_Solenoid_Flasher_Chart_Rules_and_Shot_Maps_OCR_searchable.pdf" target="_blank">Scotty</a>! Assure me I will see something on the other side of this transporter room.</span></div>
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<b>Treading water with air</b></h3>
Compressed air: lifting dust, grit, and grime out of rusty screws and old interior crevices soaked 409 clean now of brittle nicotine heated plastics oh my &^*$ yucky. So too when the time came to clean the dirt and dust out of newly sanded wood, 120' CFS air cleaned so a fresh black could be applied after the glue for the chipped corner dried solid under the clamps. Restoration also means time to dry (after true applications of whetted sweat slowly concentrated patient wet painting labor glue whatever). Fun stuff.<br />
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This Hydra had been docked since October 2009 and actually suffered water damage while bookending an Atari row that stretched 120'. It was the baby of the line @1990, topping the last 'Atari Games' cabinets after the 720º and Paperboy. Sweet white complex cool molded star wars yoke it reminded me of game #1 fiberglas mold and how 20 years bookending Atari video games was kind of neat when you literally set them next to each other. Sorry, I have no photos of getting of this <a href="http://www.arcade-museum.com/members/game_census.php?klov_id=8160" target="_blank">Hydra #106</a>. Caked dust tar darkened squeaky non-op peddle no yoke control shoot non-kinda-working off-location 1994 filthy beauty fun boat racing game! Then, because it was in the corner, it got leaked on by a faulty roof one torrential rain (another bad landlord story of misfortunate costs and loss). A 1936 Bally playfield was damaged in that storm leak as well as the Hydra base --hydrated swollen particle wood t-mold meh. OK fast it to having a need to fix that wall behind the whole 120' row (some idiot almost skewered a hole through with a forklift from the other side shop insanity). So Hydra came out easily fast front near the PONG and screamed: I'm OUT it's MY TurN! I also had a sincere need to place it somewhere else pronto. Queue my great friend helping me store some games in his garage. It only makes sense as he's got a beast of a boat that looks like it should be in the game!<br />
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First thing was to disconnect the pedal for complete rebuild. Sand blasted both rusty pieces and thick glossy black powder-coated them before reassembly with cleaned parts and re-soldered pot leads. This was very sweet piece to complete after finding that perfect chunk of snowboard grip tape for it! So cool it turned out that I couldn't wait to throttle the game and it compelled me to complete things asap. I swear I took some photos during that rebuild but I can't find any! :/ Thanks again to Focused Light for all the METAL help!<br />
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(I've since purchased a great torx security bit set), but I had a <u>helluva</u> time getting these 4 bolts off the base plate. No way the upper shroud comes off until the joystick yoke assembly is removed!! <a href="https://youtu.be/i6RZY4Ar3fw?list=PLqXRe1_7ywuhVT4hA2OBy6mo_kEtyj3Cv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rust Never Sleeps!</a> Soaked these a few days in liquid wrench and had to borrow a better set/wrench to literally get the correct torque on those torx to turn! Again, compressed air blowout after more oil and wire brush a few times, each bolt head became cleared enough for the bit to seat and grip nicely. These 4 are intrinsic (hard-to-replace) bolts that need to work again, so it's important not to be hasty with incorrect tools and stupidly strip the heads. Countersunk specific to the control plate, they keep it flush to the base and there is no room for any other bolt head. Just be careful in 'sledgehammer need' efforts. Like a Pitman Arm and y'er ol' Ford, it is very gratifying to get that stubborn m*&^%* to give it up! :)<br />
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WTH was I supposed to do with this #^%$n *&$m swollen base?? Rebuild the whole thang? No no no no .. not here, that kind of repair was overkill and outta my scope and tools (and this was not the same as the Asteroids Deluxe problem). Moreover, this swell reached up the sides and, well, ambition runs only so far. The game is still solid, standing, and the t-molding is intact. I glued it back into the channel in many places, using it as support for the wood filler, sanded out the swell on the foot base and got it as flat and flush as possible. No, I did not remove any of the duel t-molds, as it kept the edge to sand to and bolstered the side to fill with the wood filler. Leveled and sanded, I could at least match it back to the gloss black that was still molded to the grey sides.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>.. (much) more later.<br />
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<br /></div>FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-72706944299385175862016-09-01T00:00:00.000-06:002020-06-29T16:14:54.044-06:00Another year older and deeper in...Tundra Towing FeatherHeavy Tons<br />
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2500 (+1000 upstairs) square foot warehouse space @ $1200/month<br />
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May 2011 was a business venture and a way to get all the games out of multiple storage units and start working them. It was grand when we got them all inside and signed the lease. Getting comfy with such collecting accomplishments in one place was inspiring --the 'museum' looked very real. Fire code prohibited any way to open the doors to the public for gaming, but we sure had great pride walking people around the space whence they got a gander inside or they knew. It's impressive to see so many vintage games in one place - now to get them ALL working clean. Start whittling down junk for money to work the hundreds of restoration projects sitting there staring dark. Running around scarfing up good sales and cherry-picking Wolfman's great hauls was easy: have cash, grab game(s), store safe, next, repeat. OK so 100s later the project plate, like the first game needing just a week of good attention, fills up with months of tasking and sorting and storing and moving and fixing ad infinitum. (This is still just a <i>hobby</i> dream remember).<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/Lt3IOdDE5iA" target="_blank">"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans..."</a><br />
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You can't trust anybody.<br />
My better half likely woke me up wisely to the low path of company I had newly ventured with.<br />
My venture half bragged my games were his all over the internet and stole stuff while I wasn't watching. He was good for bringing in games and filling in lots of museum gaps, bringing a good technician, but also bringing in the old fodder of strange folks (likely stealing stuff too). What was a purely kind gesture of rehabilitative support on my part became a nightmare of reality. It's simply not possible to help someone out of a hole when they continue to carry the shovel that they dig themselves in with -notwithstanding the obviously uncorrected method of beating up everyone else with it. Boy was I a poor judge of character despite the great dog (and I trusted too fast with blind compassion to an unforeseen record).<br />
So I packed all my games tight for any more thievery and thankfully got him out without altercation.<br />
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Soon I was able to help a true old friend run his glass business for a good sublet price. Things seemed workable still despite the added dust - trust in giving keys to responsible people is invaluable. All through this warehouse transition the domestic front caved in and it became a second home to me and my dogs. At least things were safe and intact and I could work somewhere while my entire life shifted out of marriage. Lots of games got worked on during this duress, as keeping my hands busy seemed the only compensation for all the mental anguish swirling around my days.<br />
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/// APPL side note here, my stacks of Macintosh computers and parts and leftover truckload of closed business got stuffed into this game warehouse as well (refer to the defunct garage-based home business now divorced move out proximity stress). I had a young genius friend who was keen on whittling down some profit via eBay etc. (like I'd left it in 2007) with all this vintage equipment. So <i>playing</i> with old Macs is not actively parting out and down hundreds of pounds of stuff. Although trusting him with a key to the space and having another friendly body watching over things and having some away place was good.* Nothing seemed to get gone nor any greenback appeared in my pocket. My nostalgia for the System 7 has long vanished and everything hauled around all these years just became a pile of junk to recycle (properly). ////<br />
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Colorado becomes a legal Amendment 64 in 2012 -growers and industry start moving in and landlords get wise to all the cashflow. I had a good landlord, they let me continue to frustrate my hobby dream at $1500 a month stipend that somehow I was able to keep paying. Exceeding any income that came out of the place, it became a real problem when they asked for $2500 a month by 2016.<br />
Guffaw! Time to get all this drama gone.<br />
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Early July I get the increase notice, going up September 1 to something I refuse to nor can pay (pisses me off the lack of compassion and quick notice - <i>no way he'll move all that</i> I could just hear for that 1K greed). Quid pro quo (as I was restoring his Pachinko game for him too), fellow tenant let me stash the big stuff and sublet only 200' across into his unit (altogether another charade).<br />
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/// (Several hundred pounds including monitors and stacks of legacy units), Mac kid gets fire sale via inter-webs going and manages it well enough to stress me out thinking fast straws, grabs the cash mostly (s'ok he needed it and got it 'tendered' pro bono, so what), and leaves me with 20% of 'the pile' remaining. So too stash the last remnants of The Missing Byte and eventually donate the bulk of it to a favorite vintage Apple support business. Meh ///<br />
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I had callouses on my callouses when we were done. I equated roughly 25-30 TONS of 'collectible' stuff. I lost the entire month of August, literally; getting enough rest and nourishment to daily work to see it done by August 31. Like the college term papers, I am the King of last minute all-nighter A dissertations --I did not quit. Done, 11pm August 31st. $900 a month now. Sleep (for a month).<br />
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I did, sleep that is. Finally when it was stashed dry with a good locks, finally, I could sleep. Tired 50+ bones now and the 'museum' is still safe, growing cobwebs like me in the fast-paced crazy of people who have attentions of gnats (let alone deep game challenges).<br />
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(This is still just a <i>hobby</i> dream remember).<br />
And so it goes, a whole collection of vintage 1st-generation arcade games that I can't make viable here. I had museum in mind when things just fell into place for dating myself and doing this. I literally copied Funspot's game list in 2008 and said I would rather build this here in the West than travel to New Hampshire. What's a museum without things? Working so hard to get the things I didn't realize how difficult it would be holding on to it. Wow time flies.<br />
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The callouses and back pains, seeing 50, the death of my beloved dog, ending era of marital dreams, good sleep finally alone in my own bachelor house secure, games safe, I took the most of 2017 and played hooky. Finding myself again and keeping near only a Robotron and the yellow relic, I've slowly regained strength. Health is wealth.<br />
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Priorities.<br />
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*Get away. It was cool, this space. Walking around tons of games then maybe settling in on a good one to while away some free-time was simply outstanding. Hot summer days heat of divorce I cherished the dark cool shop with the AC/DC Back In Black, hammering out frustrations with giddy flippers. The other guys too sought some sanctity-away evenings to preserve some sanity back home -I was always glad to have this place for that cool reprieve; mountain of glorious games, please let me stay here rent cheap until I can open a real working place somewhere! Oz...<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Battling</span></h3>
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Back into it. Death is everywhere. I had finally catapulted into the TSPP restoration as my beautiful dog lay dying. It had been a bitter cold winter despite our Broncos' Superbowl victory. Old hips gave way fast to time and suddenly immobility stopped the tail wagging, despite the good barks and daily appetite. Willpower would have nourished his entire survival -true testament that a dog stands like a knight, happily fighting every moment without a care for "only the flesh wounds." They truly all have three legs and a spare. It's all about the madness of living that the game gets played --right 'til the last breath.<br />
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"I'm Django the big German Shepherd Dog, who the fWoOfck are you? mWoOF!"<br />
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The 2015 TSPP resto finally took my new shop's pinball cherry, and the space became comfortable and efficient for good work completed. Just like every game, burn-in testing is <u>the</u> <u>best</u> and I covet the game for days playing it with mad satisfaction when it's finally done. The Simpsons had to go back on location ASAP to earn some more bank for its new rubbers (and relieve the quarter-ops Space Shuttle that was pinch-hitting for it). Time to start working these PBM restorations from the top: queue the Medieval Madness into the new, comfy warm bay. <i>This</i> dude had been open going for -seriously- three years up at my warehouse space. I had tore into it there just as my ex hit me with the papers. Like some bombed castle maddening metaphor, my life started to look the same: all that junk had to come off to see how dirty the field really was, how many broken pieces there are, and how worn out this beautiful game was. Sure enough it was filthy and non-op --need just pay attention to all the details again and things will be right. As usual, clockwise from the left flipper, I had everything torn off back to the 3 pop bumpers. Ramps and pieces were detailed clean <i>as they were removed</i> and the nearby Counterforce PBM became the 'resto-table' for everything to put back whence the big jobs got done. I had to get an entire castle front-piece just to get the swinging door back on this game! Feck! Know what I'm sayin'? Restoration is CLEANING! Start disassembling just to clean it and a) you finally see the stuff that's broken in person and b) you break it cleaning it so must restore it before you continue; a simple formula, sometimes years in the balance before electricity is ever introduced again. Medieval polishing and dirty work --unless you have an intended sword to truly kill it, haste makes definite waste.<br />
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Right, so it had begun February 2013, hauling back-box pieces back to my home shop/garage, where I was also busy digging mad through a STTNG. C'mon folks, this many vintage games, understand they are <i>all</i> on project phase all the time; I'd (labor to just) get them safely set somewhere to shop them for awhile, always thwarted by parts availability or whatever, ergo jumping around accommodating multiple restorations and as many games as possible simultaneously. Perhaps this is why my ex thought I'd become mad! lolol <wry grin> METHOD <a href="http://www.methodandmadnesswhiskey.com/">&</a> MADNESS! Listen, get here this far with this crazy many and you'll understand, otherwise stfu and stop asking so many mundane questions before consulting ur gugl. RTfM, K? Which reminds me too, see the picture, I slammed out an RFM playfield resto while I was at it.<br />
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To be clear: in 2013 I had my newly built home shop/garage. Like the 'clergy' influencing the King surreptitiously, the moat gets vastly murkier and the throne usurped by Her Majesty while the Dude honorably fights idiot hoards on his own lands' end. OMGWTFBBQme!<br />
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..e'er the other side ye see... WHAT is your name?<br />
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WHAT is your quest?<br />
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WHAT is your favorite color?<br />
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WHAT is the capital of Assyria?<br />
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WHAT is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?<br />
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Anyway, the new shop let me tear into the STTNG setting nicely in warm safety (while playing the Embryon and Robotron every night), running to the MM 50 blocks away at the shop with the rest of the collection setting safely (a serious (stupid biz vent) man-cave away and another few nightmare/solace chapters altogether later nevermind). TWO shop spaces --yay! Anyway, as it always seems, life flashes your picture public while your pants are around your ankles. MEH. Shocked awake again, I at least persuaded her that with this much at stake and age, give me the benefit of moving out the STTNG in one piece rather than the few hundred little ones it was now benched. So I proceeded to tear everything I'd just built down and whittle it elsewhere safe, getting this mofo star trek pin flashing sweet clean playing gtfouttadodgeasap (if it's the last damn thing I take out of my beautiful new heated/cooled garage)!<br />
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It was the last thing I moved out after playing it like a madman all night when it was finished...<br />
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So is this post about MM, or STTNG?? Eat me, my point is I restored both and more under extreme duress and moved (300lb ea.) around multiple times all while fighting a ferocious killer rabbit! I still have them and both are now 100% restored gorgeous historic pinball machines. Funny how much work I got done, actually, so so many things just fast fixed so they could be accounted for quickly and made safe. HEH, the SQueEkY wheel gets the grease, non? <nudge nudge wink wink> Distressing damsels always detaining and diverting ...DAMNED! (Some other post ...NOT)!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"They took our pinball machines!"</span><br />
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Let's fast forward the troops a couple'o years past all the the bivouac stories and just go to the real battle: getting this rapscallion game to fight back for some fun. :-)<br />
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Queue the gathered parts all nicely organized ready, shrubbery in-hand and the cabinet safely set so, let's go! Ni! MY own great new space was now comfy and my grief was now every day ...soothing the worst of my pinball angst I will DO IT AT LAST!<br />
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A quick note about that shop bench there, see. That bench was dearly built in 2002 for my brick computer biz in Lakewood. I reinstalled it in my new home garage shop biz 2004, cutting it down perfect fit for that space. It received a building upgrade in 2013 so again got reinstalled sweet new space. Then again after the divorce, down it shuffled stored 'til I got this new garage 2014. Another setup here shown, it's still working hard MDF stacked to the gils with (too many) parts and projects, but the capacitors are in their drawers and the <a href="https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Apex-Tool-Group/WESD51/?qs=0lHHbjvaHISJj5Nu2r8YCg%3d%3d&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1YrliOaI2gIVFJR-Ch21EQ1XEAAYAiAAEgJLlPD_BwE">WESD51</a> has its space and things get done again. BTW, tool #1 in any of my shops is the <a href="https://youtu.be/T09hBGGpSjk">stereo</a>!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"It's not tragic, you have Merlin's magic!"</span><br />
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So here I am again seriously, all back to the 1 o'clock playfield tear-down. Zounds!<br />
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First thing to get this trebuchet wound again, put those new troll door graphics on and replace those two center targets, soldered-in solid with the posh backing foam: BAM! As well, get those restocked <a href="https://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=catalog&parent=465&pg=">SuperBand</a> post rubbers out and make a color choice; (black looks normal nice, purple is cool, but) RED matches the field base: BAM!<br />
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This is my first game to really need to repair all pop-bumpers --have to get a new tool. No way to fix these (and I have the 3 new purple skirt replacements) unless I can staple the exposed leads to the underside. Love it, KooL new TooL in hand (a shrubbery), I can pass! Like my Hakko 808, whence in the belt, ya wondere wtf ya been w'out 't! ID 10 T Stimpy!<br />
Cannot you cut down the shrubbery with a herring?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PURPLE CAPS worn out filthy with thrashed bodies & mismatched skirts</td></tr>
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I **noted something here: the metal ring had eroded holes into the plastic bumper body. It was obvious a razor edge 3x 4x 90˚each of the metal up-N-down was like a grinder --deep internal infestation! As I installed <i>my</i> new metal, I filed down round each 3, all 6 smoothed suspect edges, hoping they will not hack the new plastic housings like the originals. Just an FYI, as it's a LOT of work to get to the three bumpers located under ALL THE RAMP assemblies! Think and plan best you can, Sir Lancelot. I give you pictures for your quest, Tim the Enchanter web-reader, seek and ye shall finde hopefulle. Ye carved in mystic runes..follow, ye men of valor, doubt not your courage or y'er strengthe, behold ...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the original ring and the sharp edges that carved these holes in each bumper body</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">rigid fresh successor and six-side-smoothed-n-ready rings on the ol' bodies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">O my yummy! Now I want to play it! Adrenaline finish!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Violet <a href="http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/05-PB555-V" target="_blank">PopBlasts</a> (the website to the game is a long way)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">strike the hammer while the iron is hot: new 26-1200 coil and refreshed bracket/spring/yoke</td></tr>
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Nothing works hot on top without a good wire connected underneath! And so it began, using this great new air tool that staples perfectly smooth flush, deep over a tangle of harness wiring. The leads for each bayonet light in the bumper body had to be secured away from each moving mechanism below. These flat wires remained stealthy flush out the underside when stapled tight: I placed shrink on the prepared/tinned wires, getting each pair (all 6) secure for battle. <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpGKcEqIdF_z-IFTk76kQageN7sPaEhmp2s_m6sWizrQM1zYmqOXAVzzhuH4Sq18tG3SD1X4hCXN2ml-xf8ysikoF5B1RgrxIho8fDU_-cjAkhYsGtIE8-s4fjP10Nu7koWIeL8jjthVN/s1600/knig.gif" /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 new coils, wired lights, and solid brackets for refreshed bumping!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"There IS a DOORBELL!"</span><br />
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Mmmm ...catapult me into new territory! Nice to have these done, really, as they were the stopping point long ago, knowing I needed to get that tool first and so many multiple parts from many sources. Time.<br />
Time Time ticking ...like sand in a glass, aye!<br />
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I had procured a few things for this machine (like the staple gun). One thing I had to get were a few LEDs (for many machines, keeping RGBW standard stock). begin rant/ I'll cite an earlier post I made here about how nuts it is IMO to buy 'kits' for whole LED upgrades. NOT crazy about losing the warm aesthetic of vintage incandescent machines, particularly where simple, bright, lights the already there great colors of the plastics. When I can though for the better, I shoot for an intuitive, homogenous taste catered to each PBM; continuity considered, specific placement for illumination, and keeping with overall game theme. There are far too many options for today's gamer --too much such that EM pins get hacked stupid bling and cool things get garish and sick. Upgrade these tasty pinball games with some reserved taste, pleasekthanks. /end rant ANYway, I got one of those green flexi-direc-LEDs from cometpinball, yanked an old socket from some ol'thing, and wired it to the playfield GI --now the green moat has really cool green <i>under</i>glow!<br />
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OK so I wanted to mention one more thing here about the green moat. Mine was battered broken and repaired by previous ops with hot glue. Good luck finding any replacement let alone removing it from the game. It made sense to me on this game to epoxy the breaks in place, like this photo here where the ball drops in behind the castle. The old ops glue was still working and I just bolstered it and repaired this critical back corner. Another hairline fracture I secured with a nice piece of tin tape --functions 100% and looks great unnoticed from above. Better to have it working than cracked getting worse irreplaceable thing.<br />
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This is the most fun, the homestretch after the big jobs are complete and the bulk of new #44s and rubbers are in. I make good habit of cleaning parts on immediate removal. Moving in sections, I stack the polished screws (yes indeed a detail here) and shined plastics aside until I can clean the playfield area and replace the lights. These 90s vintage games can have so many toys and parts I find it extreme (and stupid) to remove everything at once --simply too much to get shuffled wrong or lost. It's easy to just section any pinball field into quadrants, doing only 1 or 2 at a time. This MM is a story of a crazy section of my own castled-kingdom gone mad --I'm surprised I didn't lose something important while it was scattered in boxes moving around.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Big deal! I have another one just like it down the road!"</span><br />
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OK, so I think I lost myself in ultimate pinball madness for about a solid week. Seriously.<br />
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I cannot even begin to express to you the satisfaction of this game and its 100 % 'ness.<br />
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I could not get enough of this game, loving pinball; it's legend for reason and you know when it gets you in flipping, er, hurling steel at castles. The theme is it --I think not a better metaphor made for flipping steel pinballs around. Classic in a classic game made classy classless priceless gas.<br />
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I feel lucky to have gotten a nice cabinet despite all the operational wear. By the time I have all this playfield done and electricity to it (backbox/DMD already years done), I Novus the entire thing and detail touchup all I can. It really starts when you get it, as all games are about condition, condition, condition. Nonetheless, the side graphics look great, it's just the front of the backbox that needs some new detail: insta-paint-room masking mastery!<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Special Dragon Effects by: Olaf Prot</span></div>
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Dragon choreographed by: Horst Prot III</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Dragon trained to solder and work complicated WPC95 code by: Uncle Ernie Wigg</span></div>
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Immortalized on the battlefield, fighting hard like a true warrior. 1980 was a beautiful time for Williams -the Black Knight was as big for the pinball company as the Defender was for the company in the video revolution. Coup indeed, what with the invention of a second-level playfield, new multi-ball madness, and a new thing called a magnasave. Intense fast is the way Steve Richie likes to design his games, and the knight was proof of his exhilarating ability.<br />
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((RUST NEVER SLEEPS))<br />
** I write this now 2019; however, starting and dating it accordingly to the 2012 restoration of this Black Knight and the 2012 purchase of the AC/DC. Both pinball machines still insanely clean and 100% new as allows for both being played insanely 100% game!<br />
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<br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-91856897601288262852012-07-12T23:11:00.000-06:002018-12-21T20:13:58.386-07:00booJ aG ooG ooG ... toboR, I<b>Get in the Grid</b><br />
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It goes without saying sometimes. Urges to sink into it and let yourself go are always present. In the moments we get caught up in thinking about future things, we quite handily elude ourselves from being in the present. Gifts of reality and being become waste to time and senses dulled. Wherever you are, you are here.<br />
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I recently brought 2 amazing cabinets into the fold when wreaking some Havoc with my good Hawaiian friend. I'm super stoked to have these games. Late-generation Atari making good on where video gaming was heading. The cabinet style alone is an awesome step in evolution. Only a minimum of these games were produced as the arcades began dying out and the home cartridge put people on the couch.<br />
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<b>The Naked Robot</b><br />
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So I have to make a roundabout story when explaining the significance of this post. A few weeks ago I soaked up some awesome audiophile setup with a good friend. We decided to steep our ears in an uncompressed perfect listen to the album, <i>I, Robot</i> by the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robot-The-Alan-Parsons-Project/dp/B000JLQSW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342207079&sr=8-1&keywords=i%2C+robot+alan+parsons">Alan Parsons Project</a>. I have been obsessed with this tune since that evening. I'm not sure if it was the literal games just coming in or the fact that this night my friend just pulled the album out of the random to impress my ears with bliss. Regardless, by the time I found the nice video with the apropos Japanese animation, I had the CD here to listen to through my Apple tree. I queue it up and I think about how I love to collect this vintage technology. Trust me, years from now when they look back on the origins, you'll see big, wooden games with art and innovation doing only one thing .. entertaining your brain with a simple game. Literally, we were standing up and associating with these newfound computers doing real-time visual things in COLOR! Blossoming Solid State circuitry and the Integrated Chip were transforming into true Processing and doing. Most importantly we were now i N t e R a C t i n G with it all. Like the rise of the desktop computers, our lives were merging the screened opiate into the world of one-on-one play. Starting with a simple tennis match on an oscilloscope we soon found ourselves touching virtual, video worlds through a start button. Joysticks, knobs, and balls we begin to fly through the scenarios, pitting 1-to-1 action with a ... program.<br />
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Sark would be proud. Hard to find the Trons or Flynns in this video game preservation. Commodities are continually battering the history --the wood is still getting chucked into the landfill. Gratefully, we have a dedicated group of people who continually offer their best skills and space to keep these things alive and thriving safely stored for the future. Kudos to U bros ... you're all my heros in this hobby.<br />
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Future Tense..<br />
Perhaps in the mix here is the generation of a logo for this venture :/<br />
Playful thought and timing decided the Quarter Byte logo you see: the marquees were staring right at my face with the idea! <br />
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<b>You are an unhappy Interface Robot (#1984) in rebellion against "Big Brother" and his EVIL EYES. The evil eye dictates the law. The evil eye will kill you if it sees you breaking the law. Your mission is to destroy the evil eye.</b></blockquote>
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Sometimes U just have to bid and move - wreak a little cash and get what you want. Play your patience and perhaps you’ll get more than you bargained for (it always wins they say). Perhaps you’ll die trying. It’s OK, you certainly get at least a few free lives for your quarter. The moral is to keep trying ... keep pushing for the better score. Keep playing the game. Make as fast as you can back to your ship after you spin your damage - get in and get out. Wax-on, wax-off. <br />
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<b>Brilliant Harry Mabs</b><br />
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Wow! From an 1982 Orbitor 1 to a 1950 Knock Out .. very cool. It’s been amazing to see the innovations on the play fields on these pieces just acquired. I purchased this from a gentleman who had found this in a pawn store, says he’d never seen anything like that before and just couldn’t resist the wow factor. He got his very first home standing game real quick-like after the store said “today only or the curb!” Thank his stars he wanted a project - an amazing great find. <br />
D. Gottlieb & Co. dominated the 1950s pinball market - it’s why we know the name so well. Often referred to as the Golden Era, some truly inspiring innovations began in these years. We take it for granted today that the flipper had to begin with the 1st pin with one. Harry Mabs put a coil under such a flipper bumper and made it a reality in the famous <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1254">Humpty Dumpty</a> in October 1947. All of the technologies developed on the field to that point, such as the bumper itself, were perfectly complimented by this idea of ‘shooting it back up the middle’. Moving “from chance to skill”, the game seriously hasn’t looked back since the invention. Unlike the actual ‘pins’ that we see no longer, the flippers are now the real base of the pinball game.<br />
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So this is a <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1391">December 1950, D. Gottlieb & Co.<br />
Knock Out</a> Serial # 047946KO<br />
The 28th pin made with the new flipper design from Harry Mabs, it’s famous for its manikin boxers inside a miniature playfield boxing ring. Please refer from Michael Shalhoub’s wonderful set of books, “<a href="http://www.pbresource.com/books.html">The Pinball Compendium, 1930s-1960s</a>” for more information. There’s also a great restoration page for this pinball @ <a href="http://www.sandsmuseum.com/coinop/games/knock/knock.html">Sands Mechanical Museum</a>.<br />
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Not sure if you caught <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?yr=1947-50&searchtype=advanced">those #s</a>: that was 28 pinball machines from October 1947 through December 1950 -one man at one Co.. Add Genco, Bally, Williams, and Chicago Coin to that 3 year tally and you would flip out! (And you thought they built games like crazy in the 1980s!)<br />
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Here are some ‘before’ pictures (having just set it up in my shop). I’ll update this as I can when restorations are completed. I’m just stunned at how cool this pinball is! Holding the wood rail and pressing the side buttons, gathering all the imagery that Roy Parker hits you with ...this will be a true joy to see working again!<br />
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Meantime here’s a nice game restoration walk-through. :)<br />
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<b>GTS-2/Game Transport Shuttle : 25CENT Arcade Express II</b><br />
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12 states - 3260 miles - 15 days - 11mpg - 9 games<br />
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Missions accomplished. Sometimes you have to just do it. <br />
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14AUG11 0900 MDT : I wish I could have left today -must get all this work/plan here done so I can be away so long. <br />
(thinking I gotta stay back here already) <br />
15AUG11 0430 MDT : an extra day to finish stuff here and pack smartly, get some rest. Early loaded with guitar and tools, hook the trailer up at the shop 10 minutes N and strap down the games. Grab a #3/coffee and hit the interstates’ sunrise somewhere in Nebraska.<br />
(thinking I gotta get back here already)<br />
15AUG11 0733 MDT : 89306, Sterling, CO $52.02<br />
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15AUG11 1217 CDT : 89517, Elm Creek, NE $75.20<br />
15AUG11 1527 CDT : 89710, Omaha, NE $65.81<br />
15AUG11 1827 CDT : 89863, Colfax, IA $51.80<br />
15AUG11 2100 CDT : Calls fwd - got to get a room for safety’s sake tired - I’ll get there, Chicago, sometime before noon -- not in one-shot this time with the trailer.<br />
15AUG11 2124 CDT : 90031, Geneseo, IL $61.24 <br />
(thinking I gotta get back home already)<br />
16AUG11 1130 CDT : Chris! Great day conversing shops and games and all folks between. : ) Tapper is now -literally-on the tongue. 2x now, stunned collector comments ahead!<br />
16AUG11 1849 CDT : 90172, Orland Park, IL $49.15<br />
16AUG11 2250 EDT : 90349, Marshal, MI $50.93<br />
16AUG11 2330 EDT : sleep Holiday Inn, Chelsea, MI.<br />
(thinking I gotta get back home already)<br />
17AUG11 1100 EDT : Shane! Thanks buddy .. good conversation the whole day with games and good time planning and chatting real-time. Thanks for picking up and holding onto these 2 games for me!<br />
18AUG11 1400 EDT : check-in Detroit digs, drop T/Tranquility Base Arcade, contact friends Gratiot Ave, steak dinner & good beer, crash<br />
19AUG11 1200 EDT : Bill! Killer BBQ lunch and greet .. back to Gratiot Ave for the pinball! : ) <br />
(thinking I gotta get back home already)<br />
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19 AUG 11 1800 EDT : Alan! Wow have we got a lot of catching up to do. Games are played and much is talked about and then midnight. May the force be with you! <br />
20 AUG 11 1100 EDT : Bill! Ahhh the gameroom! Mad Planets and Q*bert, in the house! Thanks for picking up and holding on to the Food Fight. Awesome. <br />
20AUG11 1641 EDT : 90576, Roseville, MI $65.83<br />
21AUG11 0730 EDT : I-94.. I-75.. I-70.. I-44.. HWY43..<br />
21AUG11 1046 EDT : 90777, Troy, OH $67.29 <br />
21AUG11 1354 CDT : 90985, Marshall, IL $66.48<br />
21AUG11 1731 CDT : 91183, St. Clair, MO $63.96<br />
21AUG11 2226 CDT : 91414, Joplin, MO $72.60<br />
21AUG11 2330 CDT : Grove, OK .. drop T/CoC .. home by the lake. Lots to do.<br />
26AUG11 2000 CDT : 150 miles rural hunting old pinball = success!<br />
27AUG11 1045 CDT : 91668, Grove, OK $ 58.65 27AUG11 1055 CDT : home-packed Tundra move stuff shuffle loaded bed/trailer hitched/all strapped in tight.<br />
27AUG11 1500 CDT : Brent! Tempest glass, KC. Awesome gameroom! Thanks for the time!<br />
27AUG11 1620 CDT : 91843, Olathe, KS $69.39<br />
27AUG11 2035 CDT : 92064, 237 HWY 232, KS $77.50<br />
28AUG11 0000 MDT : 92276, Burlington, CO $ 83.04<br />
28AUG11 0130 MDT : Deer Trail 50 miles shy rest stop safe sleep wacky nice to be back in the dry not humid breeze gonna close my eyes 20min sleep 4hrs surreal.<br />
28AUG11 0530 MDT : curb landing and good doggie greetings! Kiss the wife. Tempur... . . . z z z <br />
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29AUG11 2100 MDT: ...steep in good ale, play home pinball gems, comfy digs with the wife. Home.<br />
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“For it is in giving that we receive... it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” -a prayer of St. Francis<br />
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For Bob & Elaine<br />
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<b>“Wow “wow “wow “wow</b><br />
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So a couple of 1970s NASA engineers got some cool pinball ideas back in the day. They brought the concept to Gary Stern who in turn let Joe Joos Jr. make it real. It was definitely cool enough to make 889 of them. <br />
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Real cool: two rotating target bumpers sunk into a smooth, curvy-molded Plexiglas table. This all over a lit moonscape just underneath. Otherworldly, floaty, the ball takes no straight shots but careens in a gravity grid around the rotating bumpers. The molded double back glass is pretty sweet too. All this with total 80s chirps and beeps as you drop targets all sides and seek the locked ball and the time-on-ball bonus points. You learn to flip only one left or right as the ball swims behind front to have the game ask with its cylon voice, “Play, Pinball, Again.” <br />
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Freaky friggin cool ... you are utterly engrossed in the ball and its movements. It’s an unbelievable pin that just has to be experienced. Definitely more than a novelty .. true grit on the table always real-time. <br />
This was Stern’s last pinball for a very long time. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flippers.be/pinball/stern/orbitorone/orbitor_one.html">Art Myers</a> wrote a <a href="http://www.flippers.be/stern_orbitor_one_history.html">great article on the history of this game</a>.<br />
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<br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-61986848611641178582011-08-06T19:00:00.000-06:002012-06-17T13:51:25.201-06:00Happy Gamer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxonoc4c-aMlj-C8r3P4ZLrW-fGgp9GIpq5TVxBAxWeunOPx5BpObXAPjDmQ_4cWUsVdqSzVjotUfqN_q7CanY72dWHVasRyVvEpm1tA8sVKd3PWdx0SxXY8lArVi7QGe1ujmNoJHS0YWO/s1600/gamer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxonoc4c-aMlj-C8r3P4ZLrW-fGgp9GIpq5TVxBAxWeunOPx5BpObXAPjDmQ_4cWUsVdqSzVjotUfqN_q7CanY72dWHVasRyVvEpm1tA8sVKd3PWdx0SxXY8lArVi7QGe1ujmNoJHS0YWO/s400/gamer.jpg" /></a><br />
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<b>Joys</b><br />
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My wife says I rarely smile anymore. :( I guess I need to start reversing that concern crease in my forehead! I always seem to smile when I bop between the fave pins on a nice evening. The most perfect therapy I can think of - it’s the best reason to be in this hobby. Always good to remind yourself of the real reason you spend months working on the things - the rewards are healthy! Game On! In fact, my smile is even better when I see others enjoying these games too.<br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-87635604398048557952011-08-05T21:00:00.000-06:002012-06-12T21:42:25.159-06:00HUO 2011<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEips424gPTuQs-_ifveDPppBcYGM7TuZLv4SPFtlUny9xWaNoXRNSn9ue5RABAsjvqZiO3VbF-udRREDAEfUNTkto6IUX-d5q5hTqjJbD5QCC-mD2wpfLQ3gUPZIvmo0wE-zM5r2u0-z7g1/s1600/huo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEips424gPTuQs-_ifveDPppBcYGM7TuZLv4SPFtlUny9xWaNoXRNSn9ue5RABAsjvqZiO3VbF-udRREDAEfUNTkto6IUX-d5q5hTqjJbD5QCC-mD2wpfLQ3gUPZIvmo0wE-zM5r2u0-z7g1/s400/huo.jpg" /></a><br />
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<b>Four each other</b><br />
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Room for 6 games actually, my little Victorian home gameroom. No basement in this 1895 ... and I have to have permission from the wife before I can bring something inside and usurp the tables and chairs. Bless her heart .. early 2010 she gave full sanction to the side room for all games - even painted it for me! It’s been a swap-around of many nice games in here, they just were never all working ones. Like her, I tired seeing something project that I couldn’t just play every day. So I’ve decided to keep some specific pins in my sanctuary - the wall fits 4 perfectly. I also can squeeze 2 small videos on the opposite wall. There’s a Zeke’s Peak and a Tempest mini just other side of the RFM and AFM. I love it - looks cool to see happy clean games together.<br />
The Orbitor 1 is just in here. Next to the Firepower - absolute bliss jumping between these 2 games. I could stay playing in here for hours n hours. <br />
There will certainly be lots of good fun with friends. The garage arcade rows were always cool (still have some great games in there always), but this is a place to show off some of the nicer grails. Finally, a real home gameroom with some carpet and clean comfort! <br />
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Covet thy games!<br />
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<br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-34488554503473076602011-07-30T09:00:00.000-06:002012-06-12T21:29:36.651-06:00ChiLlaXin in SeAttLe<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvrW8ieSMxbulFOZoemdKWiv3gDH2hXVQo44Z741FBCe96a13pzcqvoTq8TG6_NamOdWnEom9FlottHq_naAoqOOIpwK28KaANhWUyTm9vZ4I8FdUJnZ_vV0wklZUnwoodbzVbLwOQkkgX/s1600/SP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="316" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvrW8ieSMxbulFOZoemdKWiv3gDH2hXVQo44Z741FBCe96a13pzcqvoTq8TG6_NamOdWnEom9FlottHq_naAoqOOIpwK28KaANhWUyTm9vZ4I8FdUJnZ_vV0wklZUnwoodbzVbLwOQkkgX/s400/SP.jpg" /></a><br />
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7 states - 2740 miles - 10 days - 18mpg - 3 games<br />
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Oh man - the Tundra has a new K&N intake system and a new 3” exhaust pipe with a Magnaflow installed. It not only eats the pavement it purrs pretty about it now and rumbles 4.7L V8 like it should. I had just busted a roadtrip across 110º Kansas 2 weeks prior with it and finished out my Yohama tires. Moving games with trailer and so many trips to Oklahoma in 2010 .. it spanked me one day after Kansas with ‘nope.. my battery is dead.’ I took it as a sign to get those long-awaited upgrades I wanted. 4 Michelins, tuff Interstate battery, pipes/intake - time for the precious game-hauler to get my attentions and time. Respect ... Mr, new good Michelin tires are like a flipper rebuild: brand new again! <br />
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So nice to ‘just do it’ and get up to Seattle and my good friend Craig. Sometime 2008 when he was stoked by my game passions he decided to find a fave pin. He located a beauty EM Sinbad in Spokane and somehow got it back to his place. Restoration long and limited space unfortunately kept this pin in his garage eventually. I traded him my Danelectro for it (I already have too many guitars, and he can gig with it), great appreciation for the fact that he found not only a sweet pin but the better and rarer EM version. So that was the 2nd reason to get up there - pick up the pin. Might as well put some more game in my available truck bed. ; )<br />
Thanks to an email from a cool dude in Coeur D’Alene, ID, I filled that space. Somehow now the rare stupid Universal ‘Cosmic Series’ row will begin .. this makes 2. Right on, hey, you know, I might even have some more room for ‘that pin’ in Ogden.<br />
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Fast forward to the last shuttle, <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/135_splash/index.html">Atlantis</a>, orbiting the earth. Picture a man intent on the NASA channel late night Houston ops, monitoring (hovering again oogling calling me back listing can’t forget seeing it incredible wow) ‘that pin’ on his ebay page. Call me NASA sentimental .. it was too good to forget. <click> I can pick it up in Utah on the way back with the 2 games loaded in WA. Sweet giddy game ... there’s soon to be an <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1725">Orbitor 1</a> in the collection! <br />
OK .. gotta go gotta go!<br />
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So then planned for packin and rollin, a week with good friend and chillaxin like the prescription called for, perfect. Thanks for the recharged batteries, Craig! Loaded and smooth, an awesome drive all-in-all. It’s good to again be back bringing games home in this Toyota. I love the open road ... so easy to zone-out listening to my iPod and just drive 1000 miles/day watching countryside. “When you don’t know where you’re goin’, any road will take you there.”<br />
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Time enough too to head over and see the Grand Coulee Dam and some pretty NW places, eating local Washington apples listenin’ to Guthrie.<br />
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Pinside . com<br />
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Good MOJO ... games. Play as a route to insight and creation ... good mantra. Better karma yet if you resurrect an antique player and give it new life and love again (especially if you can learn something along the way). Chalk another credit if you can make others smile because of it too.<br />
That's what it's all about and why I like doing this. I started collecting 80s vintage video games in 2006. Berzerk, Defender, and somewhere after 30 sweet more projects of blissful video collecting and fixing, a go-ahead from my long-quiet pinhead wife brought me my Firepower. I got my PBM skills brushed a bit then indeed and proceeded to fall into the same passion as the videos. I haven't stopped .. and I don't intend to.<br />
I was 14 in 1980 .. played Death Race in the shopping mall and watched color come into being in those places as my Sears PONG home player wore out. I can remember riding my BMX over to the gas station and watching Eric master the (red) Donkey Kong sitting in the back. He'd flip the credits with a straw if he needed - although he didn't usually because he never had to stop his killscreen quarter except for the slurpee break. I watched big kids master the Major Havoc in our Putt-Putt arcade as I poured out my paperboy cash into the Berzerk over in the other small room. That Op had every cool game as it came into being. Dad would bowl some weeks and I would find the vid there in the alley and wrestle as many 25¢ I could from him those nights. I would walk up to our local bowling alley with friends as much as I could for a shot at that Galaxian high score. Like those golden age games, I was gone too by 1983 .. my Mustang and girlfriend kept me pretty busy by then as did HS and points beyond 'games'. (Little did I realize how much they fueled a good POV through my life). Heck, my first good color Mac in college got more Spectre time than any writing--it was Battlezone again!<br />
The pins. The pins were always there (and they always will be). Sometimes we got a chance with the folks to get down to our huge places here in Denver. Places like Celebrity Sports Center, Malibu Gran Prix, or some bigger places in the S malls like Cinderella City. Oh man .. (long torn down now like all I'm sad to say) Celebrity had the best pinball collection - it was a shrine. Those early Williams machines especially just made that place an incredible powerhouse of sound and spectacle. It's cool that collectors around local still talk of those pins (which still hover around here in places) .. the Op there had CC'd the play fields before use. You can imagine ... the Black Knight(s) are still glassy fresh.<br />
It's an honor to be a part of this restoration community. I constantly restore my 1895 abode here in Colorado and I really enjoy game collecting. Now that I own many of these games I so loved in the 70s and 80s I'm proud to share my quarter with you and play them again. Thanks for listenin' to my little story, fellow gamer. Find that game you love to play. Get yourself a nice soldering iron and a good digital multimeter, learn some things with some good friends online - trust me. You will have much fun and good mojo rising. I'll see you around the chats. Be well. : )<br />
/Steve MacDonald (FastRMacR) <br />
//www.the-quarter-byte.com<br />
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<b>1937 Crossline</b><br />
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Study the illustration . . . notice the black lines criss-crossing back<br />
and forth on the board. They're part of the panel design--but shoot <br />
a ball across any one of those lines and--presto!--the totalizer adds 10<br />
to the score! Uncanny! Mystifying Yet based on a simple, scientific<br />
fact. "Magic Mirrors" throw an invisible "Radio Ray" along the black<br />
zigzag lines--and totalizer operates every time a ball rolls through the<br />
Ray! "Radio Ray" Action ELIMINATES ALL DEAD SPACE FROM<br />
PLAY FIELD.<br />
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NEW "BALLOON TIRE' BUMPERS!<br />
Another Bally creation! Pure gum rubber rings mounted on metal "mush-<br />
room" posts. "Balloon-Tire" Bumpers, together with new "Rubberail"<br />
Coooooooo along edge of board, give the ball a peculiar "English" full of sur-<br />
prize twists and twirls . . . and the ACTION which INSURES "PIN GAME"<br />
SUCCESS!<br />
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BE FIRST! CLEAN UP BIG PROFITS!<br />
Radio Ray" Action is today's best bet for a bigger crop of novelty nickelia.<br />
And in CROSSLINE you get "Radio Ray" Action GUARANTEED TROUBLE-<br />
PROOF BY BALLY" Be first with this new revolutionary idea. Don't wait till<br />
the other fellow beats you to the choice locations--order CROSSLINE today!<br />
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BALLY MANUFACTURING COMPANY <br />
2640 Belmont Avenue Chicago, Illinois<br />
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A Bally Product.<br />
<a href="http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=599">1937 Crossline</a>, model No. 156, serial No. 53<br />
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Jack Atkins /Ogden, Utah<br />
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He’s the man that provided us the original flyer jpg.<br />
(He provided <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?images=Jack+Atkins&searchtype=advanced">132 vintage pinball flyers</a> for the IPDB)<br />
He also owned this pinball machine ... <br />
(I’m pretty darned tootin’)!<br />
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The month of March Madness luckied me charms. I came across some very early pinball machines and various 1930s playfields. The collection had to be had fast - true antiques: get it when you see it or it won’t be there when you return. Wowo ... onlookers were still oogling over the 1930s stuff over the 2 Medieval Madness pins and like company sitting there. Amazed gamers’ eyes lookin’ at true ‘pins’ ... and more than one. Incredible artwork locked in deco metal and vintage wood.<br />
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It was filthy. Someone had left the exposed field under some seeping oil can or something too; however, it was complete and it even had the instruction cards and key. Moreover, it had a working back box/sweet glass! I had 5 days to detail it for the pinball expo: removed the metal parts (no pins on this one) and got 3-4 days in the tumbler. Novus 2 ... just incredible, no water-base perfect cleanliness polished done. Mirrors off only one-at-a-time with screws, carefully hand polished with Simachrome, exact placement reinstalled. “New balloon tire bumpers” with some sweet WICO white rubbers from the BK kit (I need another pbresource order anyway), and the nice glass from the Blackout. Glad I keep a hoard of hardware around (lots of houses helped), got every nice old screw and bolt I needed. <br />
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Sweet Bally Moxie!<br />
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Cool .. just too cool. I wish I had the time to get this all working on the insides. It’s soooo close. No time .. disassemble with the 1992 Data East pin, get them to <a href="http://www.pinballshowdown.com">the showdown</a>! I think it was happy there admired, getting to sit between some classic 1950s pbms and some nice 1930s pure mechanical pins. I only regret that it didn’t get placed on the expo manifest. I don’t think this game had seen the light of day for 30+ years at least. I was proud to see it showcase to an expo of more than 100 other pinball machines and all the minions of great folks. I’m bringing this back next year with another one --both working I swear. Hold that Tiger, Jobber!<br />
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Hey laughing boy, t'row me a clue will ya!<br />
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OK - brass tacks:<br />
If you..<br />
..know anything <br />
-about Mr. Jack Atkins<br />
-about this pinball machine<br />
-about Moseley Vending Machine Ex. Inc.<br />
-or any information<br />
please contact me!<br />
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There will be more restoration showcases of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0866670475/theinternetpi-20?creative=329585&camp=14573&link_code=as1">these finds</a> I promise. These pins are gorgeous!<br />
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<b>Starry-eyed Battles</b><br />
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So the gameroom with the newly rockin RFM needed another ‘new’ pin that I knew was close to clean and enjoying game. Bless my forgiving wife for having 80% of this Data East pin all over the adjoining room for 3 months! Fast approaching Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown 2011, April 29. Sure, why not .. might as well bring this 3pO and enjoy bumping some elbows with some pinheads .. show off the 150 LEDs I just put in under that mass of sparkly-repaired plastics. Mad last week of assembly and frustrations with the LEDs that were (after first power up new lights) giving me a seizure, I crossed a 12v wire and blew something. Oh well, at least someone at the show could help me; perhaps I can get it fixed there and bring it home working. My hasty last week before the expo was also given crazed to a 1937 pinball I wanted to finish and bring as well. Suffice to say that I managed to get both of the pins there - greatly admired for their cleanliness but painfully devoid of working game. Oh well, at least the Tron and the Defender videos were being loved. I am a video collector after all first. : )<br />
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I surely got to know a ton of new and good things. I learned a lot more about pinball and its minions of worshipers. I found out more of what I like about it myself. Perhaps a bit like a wookie at this point ... my acquired pins and playing passions are definitely showing (I vow to take this DE SW back 2012 working with ‘some interest owed’). I take from this show in particular the festive beginning of a new venture and chapter; new phase of this Colorado collection. All of these games and all of these hard efforts are with a refreshed promise and a shared dream. Realities are as real as a few good friends who care like you do -- as fun as a Stargate mini or a perfect Galaga game. <br />
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Rock On Targets!<br />
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<br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-29717729949612014562011-03-01T09:00:00.000-07:002012-06-09T12:07:05.320-06:00It takes a Knight to find a grail<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RbpLLqz-IpUV4YnwSvTYp-Vwj0UFUEsEO4k9UouJ9FPsXR_60miaVvzYLaS4uulJ9PRBaISZ1j6V4NYENCgP19YlvkRx8QA629gb4BN2gbTsUX5JTVHef8oOjeRTwfeXz34NItlQb0fk/s1600/BKbg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RbpLLqz-IpUV4YnwSvTYp-Vwj0UFUEsEO4k9UouJ9FPsXR_60miaVvzYLaS4uulJ9PRBaISZ1j6V4NYENCgP19YlvkRx8QA629gb4BN2gbTsUX5JTVHef8oOjeRTwfeXz34NItlQb0fk/s400/BKbg2.jpg" /></a><br />
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<b>SLAIN</b><br />
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Games like this don’t come up often enough for you to let pass by without such as a look. My gut always knows from the moment I see a listing whether I see that game in my shop or I let it go. Well, if my first pinball wouldn’t have been a Firepower, it most certainly would have been a Black Knight. The same gut thing happens when I actually get to the game to look it over: I get this feeling of ‘save me’ from the game. It speaks to me and actually says, please take me away from this place and take care of me like I should be. I love this feeling as I cruise home with the vintage save every time --tranquil pastures and tender care all ahead.<br />
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A pinball can actually be the worst enemy of a pinball game. Rubber and steel make easy dust after that ball is tossed around awhile and it gets all pitted. Goes without saying that occasional removal of the glass for some play field cleaning is part of the enjoyment factor. Now I can stand to see stupid abuse, but it always pains me to see neglect. Poor BK, dealt with its own scratchy balls for too long! I bit my lip trying not to say “would it have been so hard to wipe it down once or replace the ball 10 years ago?!” Man-o-man ....(this back glass is MiNtY)! FAST cash out happydeal.in the truck.gone!<br />
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Can I just say how much better it looked then in my garage next to the Firepower! <br />
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The<br />
Black<br />
Knight<br />
Will<br />
Slay<br />
You<br />
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Ah haha hah hah hah!<br />
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<br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-80831404065859831032011-02-22T09:00:00.000-07:002012-06-09T12:09:01.231-06:00Working back<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2SjaezyVe7qSO6QrqYhNzElPuPy25BCvIcQN0tyizGkgcTg6J0KK-mlPKYX-v32_CjsZMoj24K1-viKmlBfljwEa5d4ZKGPrJ4YSjELtOZR6hNmL91F-brGEQWX-bzx1OKjhjK8Cye7M/s1600/RC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2SjaezyVe7qSO6QrqYhNzElPuPy25BCvIcQN0tyizGkgcTg6J0KK-mlPKYX-v32_CjsZMoj24K1-viKmlBfljwEa5d4ZKGPrJ4YSjELtOZR6hNmL91F-brGEQWX-bzx1OKjhjK8Cye7M/s400/RC.jpg" /></a><br />
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<b>Shining games</b><br />
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<br />
Hi Friends/<br />
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I like meanings - double-up metaphoric if possible. So my back has been working, getting the gems all shuffled around out of the darkness of storage ... shining up the Rip Cord. It takes a lot of back to move these video games and pinballs. I say it’s a definite advantage in this hobby - you always have to be there with the money and you literally have to move the 700lb thing (all notwithstanding the space to place it when you return). At some point you want to stop looking at dark game projects mixed with the clean players. My humble little home sanctuary needed some flashy light - time to haul out the collecting projects in the nice space and seriously place some working bright keepers. Time to put my favorite 4 pins and 2 vids together and make my elite retirement space next to my favorite restored bathroom. Ahhh .... .... <br />
More on the backbreaking in a later post - now more to the working back. <br />
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Family tragedy with cancer is all I want to say about 2010. I might someday get to that bitter long post. I dedicate everything I do to my father. Rest in Peace, Jim. <br />
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∞<br />
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I jumped on a Revenge From Mars game sometime early 2011 for inspiration. It was nice to easy tweak clean something newer in the house to actually play for a change. I needed a ‘new’ project and the release - something to bring me back into my interests in living. It worked well. Pinball 2000, a concept this video-head fit perfectly into his love of standing in front of a good game. Just some Novus 2 and some nominal checks, my fuel for playing it filled my tanks every night when it beamed the Big-O skill shots off my frustration. Thank you George Gomez for such a wonderful creation. It’s a shame Williams ended and didn’t follow-thru properly with this concept and design. To all you pin purists ... I dare you to a sweet game of honest pinball here. If you think it isn’t a ‘real’ pinball, you’re right. It’s Pinball 2000! Shut up and play!<br />
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So let me conclude the working back to filling in the gaps. I have a ton of notes, scattered bits on different computers, and dated pictures to start organizing and putting in place (just like the games). Much-needed inventory information and log books are essential to the next phase of this anyway, so expect to see some ‘new’ posts that are ‘old’. All good. Just like the games ...all about catching up isn’t it? Since 2006 my goal has been to get the games; been too busy doing that to make posts about them. Are you kidding ...I’m always done refurbishing a control panel most evenings before I even think about a camera! I do my best to document the process, but tedium always takes second-seat to just playing the game first!<br />
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OK .. back to working...<br />
Be Well.<br />
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/Steve<br />
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Missions accomplished! <br />
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Wow - that was a trip: 3323 miles in 10 days and all success (and then some)! <br />
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√ Mission 1: visit family and friends.<br />
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√ Mission 2: safe transport of a Chicago Coin Apollo 14 to the collection here in Denver. Negotiated through the KLOV forums during 2009 with Joe in Bay City, Michigan... it was time to move.<br />
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√ Mission 3: It’s time to really meet some people I’ve become good friends with through the online channels; chats = :-) sub-mission-insider collector deals:<br />
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√ < Mission 3A: safe transport of an Atari Tank from Denver to a collector near Detroit, Michigan. Alan at his Tranquility Base Arcade has a steak dinner and a Berzerk game waiting (special to a greater story behind his particular Stern and some shared -frenzied online- repairs).
√ < Mission 3B: safe transport of an Atari Battlezone from Denver to another great collector in Michigan. Shane had asked me about this game in 2009 through our good meetings on the CoinOpSpace chats. I seized a good deal out here for him for a nice case of beer. :-)
√ < Mission 3C: must meet this audiomidiman, Bill Jr. in Detroit :) We had become friends through KLOV and CoinOpSpace and we shared a lot of Apple and game-related chats. Bill is a seriously detailed restoration man and genuinely into this awesome hobby.
√ < Mission 3D: definitely must get some dimension on the literal object, an Atari Destroyer. I certainly must say this is one nicer, longer story --I’ll devote that one to the game post. Outstanding SizzlerJoe in Michigan had this game too (wouldntyaknow) as he sold me the Apollo 14.
√ Mission 4: A long-awaited cargo trailer (game hauler) was finally chosen and ordered (just in time). Saving the shipment to Denver, I decided to pick up the Featherlite (conveniently) en route in Iowa and start using it immediately.
>>> Modus operandi: the loop is made, what else can I fit in here to maximize my efforts?<br />
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√ Mission 5: eBay find and negotiated email sale from a nice Wisconsin collector named Kirk, a Gottlieb Haunted House. Cooool.... ...serious cool he also has an Atari Space Duel for sale. <br />
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√ Mission 6: Modus operandi: chance chat on CoinOpSpace put me in touch with Chris one evening just weeks from my scheduled departure. Gaming bliss: an Atari Star Wars cockpit, 25” Amplifone version ... (as if the Apollo 14 grail isn’t mind-blowing enough)! <br />
.... “The Force is strong with this one” ....<br />
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√ Friendship 7: Modus operandi: open enough itinerary for changes (as antiques happen)<br />
>route could run me through elsewhere and the opportunity for another odd rare game.<br />
>possible run through Oklahoma and stay with more family before heading home.<br />
>wing all hotel arrangements outside family stays; I drive for hours on too loose a schedule.<br />
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√ Mission 8: Have fun, meet people, see the sights, relax, and always safety first. <br />FastRMacRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603931546563939606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525946435902899065.post-59654607885135104812009-11-22T09:00:00.004-07:002023-05-22T18:02:32.907-06:00Video Games 101(videos deleted by ™copyright)<br />
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It would appear that the youbube efforts of our English friend who laboriously recorded and uploaded a great bit of documentary information on the evolution of the video game have been sacked by the authorities. I'm sorry about that, guess you'll have to buy the BBC DVD to watch all the great interviews with all the gaming heavies. I'll work on getting a version of my own '101' explanation in the meantime.<br />
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[one rat-tart later]<br />
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My short version: it started with the Moon. Kennedy said go so The machines started humming buck rogers dollars. Those engineers played pong on oscilloscopes in the rare US labs in the late hours. Some genius wondered how one of those solid state computers could be paid off @ 25¢ a whack. The Computer Space hucksters turned PONG on the pinball world and the rest is history: 2 Atari employees named Steve turned the pong sideways and proceeded to Breakout of the garage and into the home computer pome. Japanese gamer then plays the vertical pong game and wants the bricks to breakout something HGWells’ish. Space invaded, the arcades take all the Yen out of the system as a revolution gains solid stated place in 1980 time - a billion dollar industry is born. <br />
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There was indeed a time when Vector Games ruled the planet!<br />
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<a href="http://www.myspace.com/hexstatic">Hexstatic</a><a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/"> </a>: <a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/">Ninjatune</a><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">-</span><a href="http://www.rawthrills.com/">Eugene Jarvis</a><br />
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New-school goin' Old-school!<br />
You just gotta love the amalgamation of games in these tunes from the UK duo of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson - such an awesome spectrum for the eyes and ears. Now (hear) here are two things definitely occupying my time these days .. fixing old-2-new while listening new-2-old. Playing digital vinyl and soldering circuits, putting a groove on in the <a href="http://s444.photobucket.com/albums/qq164/FastRMacR/Arcade%20Shots/">garcade</a>. Restoring my 1980 one game at-a-time and getting back my mojo in 2010 - all full circles and completed levels. I will never grow old because I retain things from my youth to keep my heart young. I will always play music, always have a passion to be 'mr-fix-it', and I will always enjoy a game. Electronic chemistry and quantum biology .. scope your solid states true and shoot for the Hi Score! Qualify this first blog for my Quarter Byte arcade (also a bridge from my <a href="http://fastrmacr.blogspot.com/">music blog</a> - more of my junk writing past (passed?) about the music game). I actually work my days trying to love my work - I (still retro) service and consult Apple <a href="http://missingbyte.blogspot.com/">computers</a> in Denver. It's not too difficult. ;-)<br />
Life really is a game .. <span style="font-style: italic;">play</span>! Sounds good to me - game on!<br />
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