TY for sharing! I was interested in learning more about this one.

I have a Wico Big Top Pinball and the flippers aren't working nor is the ball in play button but the reset button works fine and the score seems to work fine

Hopefully you can reply, my firepower, same board, kicks the right kicker randomly. Switches are open, RC circuit disconnected, tip102 replaced

Very informative and good to know.

I am saving this video for sure. Is there a way to reach out to you more directly? Im trying to fix the flipper that keeps sticking on a Star wars premium pinball machine

Love those games!

You're lucky. Here in the UK coinage has changed multiple times over the past few decades. P#sses the vending industry off mightily.

Shaffer services here in ohio will repair my mei bill acceptors . However I don’t know about shipping to them .

Damn all those times as a kid I was eating hot melting ice cream and playing arcade games!

I remember a pizza place I worked had several games where the controls didn’t work a button or joystick wasn’t working properly and they would just let the game sit like that

Wow, great story. Sorry to hear that he passed away. When growing up, we had a Bally Big Time Bingo Machine in our garage which was a game room. Once you know how they play, they are a blast of fun. All my friends would come by and when they knew all the ins and outs, they were hooked.

Well articulated, but i completely Disagree. Premium is the way to go on this title.

Checking this today on my Pinbot. It’s intermittent like yours, so I suspect this is it. Thanks!

Something to ponder: LED lights use far less energy consumption, less heat on plastics, that prevent warping, and less stress on older transformers, not to mention energy costs...

Hello Mike, have you managed to finish the Farfalla? I recently got 4 Zaccaria projects (also a Farfalla there), so I'll be busy trying to figure them out.

Kids better start with pinball fx on pc or consoles, lots of stuff moving around that would keep them engaged, relatively much cheaper, and no maintenance.

I have a laser ball pinball machine and I replace the rubbers bands on it and now the lights don't work for the rubber bands are at

The manuals are one game behind. Manuals come out the following year after machine production. Look at the manual for the machine produced after TOM. Everything I just typed is fact.

Good information, clear explanation nice work!

I have a Data East Simpsons machine and the left flipper moves slow. Any suggestions??

I feel like the 90s to late 2000s were the absolute pinnacle of pinball design. They had rulesets that were deep without being obtuse, and they nailed the concept of "easy to learn, hard to master." With more modern games, it feels like pin designers have abandoned that philosophy because they feel they have to "give collectors their money's worth", and to them, that means adding so many layers to the rules that it takes literal _months_ to learn every nuance of just a single game. Now that's nice and all for casual play, but when it comes to competitive, that's where I fear this design philosophy is starting to add a "buy to win" aspect. After all, someone who owns a modern game is far more likely to put up a monster score than someone who's only played that game on location a few times, simply by virtue of knowing all of the little hidden rules and mechanics that a casual player isn't likely to find by chance, and that even KZbin tutorials aren't likely to cover. For instance, as someone who owns zero games, it was months before I learned that the Impostor Battle on Godzilla even _existed,_ much less how to activate it, even after watching several KZbin tutorials on the game. Now imagine me going up against someone who owns their own Godzilla, and as such likely knows all about the Impostor Battle, along with all of the other features I might _still_ lack the slightest clue about. Assuming equal skill levels, who do you think is going to have the better game? Contrast that with a typical game from the late 2000s back, where the rules are usually simple enough that a decent player can learn nearly everything there is to know about the game after just a handful of plays, At that point, the competitive advantage of rules knowledge goes out the window. Then, luck notwithstanding (because, as much as some may try to deny it, luck has always been, and will always continue to be, a non-trivial factor in _any_ game of pinball), victory comes down to which player has the most effective strategy, makes the most accurate shots, and recovers from mistakes the most effectively - as competitive pinball _should_ be. At the end of the day pinball should be a game of _skill,_ not a game of who can memorize the 50+-page rulebooks of dozens of tables and then spend virtually unlimited time putting that knowledge into practice.

I found a really good guy to service my board on eBay - runs like a champ - only 140 bucks !

is there a document showing the rulesets? I cant find one.

@PinballHelp --- Hello, I'm interested in setting up a cabinet-free arcade system in my living room for playing from the couch. I want the monitor to be in a shell like a TV, and if possible a remote for turning power on/off and menu (settings/diagnostics) navigation. On a swivel that allows horizontal and vertical orientation mounted on a stand (table/ bench/cart) that allows moving it around the room when not being used, as I will have other displays and don't want to keep moving the couch and speakers, moving just the screens is easiest. I want the stand to also be able to hold consolized arcade boards that can be interchangeably connected to the monitor, speakers, and to the controls (joysticks and buttons, gun, etc.), like using consoles with a TV. I have no skill or experience with wood, metal, etc. or electronics, do the things I want sound like something I could pay for and how feasible does it sound? I live in southern New Jersey if it matters. Are there individuals or companies that do this kind of work? Also, how hard is it to find people that can consolize arcade boards, with nice cases, for quality of life and ease of use? I'm a casual guy and don't want a bunch of exposed wires and complicated stuff, just simple like using a console. Also, guys that can modify the boards (and monitor/speakers if necessary) for best audio and video quality?

I would love to see a clever slow motion video that shows all the rules. I think the issue is not the complexity, but the lack of good visual tutorials

Having an issue I just cant figure out, game is auto plunging balls, for multiball its spitting 5 balls instead of 3. After a game it will randomly spit out all the balls into the playfield. Also dont understand the "diode on terminal strip" replacing the shooter lane switch because the last person to work on it hacked it together. There should be no diode directly on the switch correct?

Hello i have a problem, when i try to drop catch the ball it get stuck in the top part of the flipper (the part nearest the central hole) instead of sliding towards the bottom of the flipper, and another little problem is that i struggle to microtapping the flippers, it will not catch se signal, can you please help me with this problems? at least the first is the most annoyng, sorry for my bad english, Salute from Italy.

The right flipper on my 1978 Williams Phoenix recently started to have issues. When the flipper button is hit there is a brief delay before the flipper goes up and it also only goes up slowly once it goes up. I haven’t seen anyone troubleshoot a similar looking flipper issue and I’m not sure if I need to replace the coil. I haven’t replaced anything yet but am inclined to just do a whole new assembly to cover everything so I don’t have to keep reworking it.

Jet spin my favorite pinball machine all time 😊

I am considering getting a virtual pinball machine such as an "UltraPin." I like the idea of having multiple tables in one cabinet, and it's all solid state, because the playfield and backglass are all emulated with computer graphics.

On my Black Hole pinball I didn't add a ground wire to the MPU board, it's already being fed ground from the power supply board by two separate wires on the connector. And anyway after I found out about how you are supposed to add a second ground wire (and 5v wire) to the MPU-to-control board connector, I did that and then took out all my extra ground wires except the one to the control board.

It is in Northwest Arkansas, not Northeast Arkansas.

This is exactly what i want to do with my Strikes and Spares (Bally) pinball machine. I'd like to have it play my Royalty free 70's vibe music. Then have some callouts when you get a strike, spare, etc. (Think Daphne from Dragon's Lair, "Ooooh! A Strike!"). Very interested to learn more and try it for my machine.

I watch a lot of these videos about the old Bally machines I remember them they were fun to play and also watch other people play them so many videos on Valley machines I wish somebody take the time and play one of the machines for about an hour or more commentate as they are being played now that would be a definitely a damn good KZbin video I don't know why the hell someone never thought of that can't play them no more unless you privately owned one next best thing is watching somebody play them again make some damn videos of people playing them da da da

Yes you should buy a pinball machine! I bought my first one a month ago! Now i own 3 😂

Good job kt5s

Great vid. What is the likely issue if when the ball hits a non pressed flipper the flipper dips a bit? It’s a modern stern.

This is a great video as I am new to em machines. I have an oxo like the one in your video. I am partially restoring it and it would be great if you could send a video and as many pictures you can of it. Yours seems to be in great shape.

I've had the same problem with UV-cured clear resin used in a 3D printer. It never stopped beeing sticky, not even after extra curing in a UV-chamber. I put a layer of gloss varnish on the part and it helped.

Great looking pin. How do you add mew music to a game such as this?

ADD Mylar after adjusting the ‘glue’ ?

Comment from a retired dentist - this is similar to the material dental “bonding” agents are made of. The long ago UV light cured materials have an oxygen inhibition layer on the surface that leaves the sticky feeling on the surface. I believe a little alcohol will remove this layer down to the cured layer.

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Thank you for the info.

Looks good dude

I just did this on the exact same game. Make sure you smooth it out with a straight edge like a business card before you cure it. And dont mask it off

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Wait a second, isn't that Tommy with his MOTHER on the backglass?!? I never realized that! Ha ha ha!

Good thing to remember 😅 thanks 😊

I had the same thing happen with a modern game when another operator had opened my game and left me something… right against the tilt bob 😂 Thankfully the clues were a lot more clear!