atari middle earth pinball playfield mod

[@klac4916]

Interesting. I've got a basket case ME. PF is perfect but it's got electronics issues and I don't really feel like dealing with the old Atari boards since there's such little support for them. There's a fella in California making a MPF and Cobrapin setup in his ME. With the potential for more complex rules on a modern board set, would you say the table itself is worth the effort?

[@andrewlee88]

Thanks for reaching out. The boards are kinda simple.. I'm sure if you have done work on video game boards, then this would probably be pretty easy. What is the game doing now? Does it power on? When it comes to talking about rulesets, I have spoken to the dude on pinside that is messing with adding audio and some objectives and i think removing that 4th flipper really makes the game take advantage of the arce-large playfield. To answer your question, if this was your only pin, or in a small line of 2-3 games, then yes, i'd work at getting it running and possibly running a different set of boards to give it more things to do.. BUT, i mean, if you had a few pins, then maybe it would not be worth the time. I say, enjoy the era its from and the exploration they were doing with this weird playfield. Removing the flipper is reversible and those long bomb shots are actually pretty satisfying hitting the drop bank. Its hard to say what other objective or order of objectives i'd add... all the shots seem to be in the wrong place to do anything constructive more than the random shooter that it was built to be... ...... im open to ideas.