Working On Williams Classic BRIDE OF PINBOT Pinball Machine 1

[@TheRealMattKronik]

Good memories playing this table as a kid while my mom was grocery shopping. I remember it being as worn as this table, and that was over 20 years ago!

[@LyonsArcade]

These things got a lot of play, very fun game!

[@Tedybear315]

I used to love working on this one back when my arcade had pinball machines. The other top fav's would be "Funhouse" and "Twilight Zone". About 30 years ago I took a job as just an arcade attendant. With my basic electronic background and mechanical background.. I nailed a manager/tech job in a few months and shipped out to Albany, NY to run my own store! I love doing pinball repair. Sadly most arcades no longer have pinball's. Most of the 'techs' get lost in the 'matrix'.... (Those that work on these games will get the reference.) Have a super New Years!

[@litz13]

Fun House and Twilight Zone were two of the first games I ever bought back in the mid 90s. Still have both.

[@funtyes1970]

from your background you probably could build a virtual pinball machine with exciters,solenoids, and so on . seem like virtual pinball is getting really big . i like virtual pinball but nothing beat a real pinball machine but it is nice to have one pinball machine with few hounded pinball games

[@andrewdonohue1853]

pinball machine popularity has come back in a big way the last 10 years. there is a local pool hall that has removed half their pool tables and now has 87 pinball machines. i did say 87. so many great titles there, the owner is a big time pin head. he has attack from mars, mid-evil madness, bride of pinbot, funhouse, black knight 2k, circus voltare, terminator 2, star trek NG, ripley's believe it or not, dialed in, no good goofers too much to list. he also offers repair services. i have an apollo 13 with a board that's acting up and he's going to fix it for me. he said under $100..... im very happy with that. he probably has close to a dozen customer machines he is working on right now.

[@blasterbyte]

Greetings from the Netherlands, love your videos!

[@sparxies]

It amazes me how these machines are now considered vintage (time flies too fast sometimes). My version of vintage was the old 1968 Chicago Coin Playtime pinball machine my dad had during my childhood in the mid 80s. By the 90s, I was a teenager and would regularly visit the arcades, but by that point I was already hooked on video games, so all the amazing pinballs never got my full attention. The closest I'll probably get to any of these amazing mechanical marvels is my virtual pinball machine I built recently. It's an adequate substitute, but boy do I want to get a few of these mechanical machines from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. One from each decade will do for me!

[@fred_derf]

You had me at _"The Machine"_ After your December daily videos I wasn't expecting a new video so quickly in January, thank you very much for that.

[@naytch2003]

Ha-cha-cha..I got a million of em..🤡😆

[@mikekelly9129]

Good day Ron 👋. I like the way you checked everything over, found a couple of faults but didn't make the guy feel like he'd done a bunch of stuff badly, unlike how some people pick holes in every damn thing YOU do, pick holes in how you talk, paint etc. By the way, you did an awesome job painting the flight 2000 👍

[@LyonsArcade]

Yeah I hate when people talk bad about other repair guys, I try not to do it, they were doing the best they could under the circumstances we all are better and worse at certain things. Thanks for watching Mike!

[@MRNBricks]

The pinbot trilogy is on my must have list. You know, when I get some $$!!

[@josephmcafee4560]

This is my holy grail! Love this! Thanks for sharing!!!!

[@pssstttchhh]

They make black cabinet art for bride, instead of purple. Just found that out yesterday. I just converted mine to LED last week and it is definitely worth it. So many colors on this machine. Also the heat was insane before LEDs. My pf inserts were all popping out, luckily not cupped or worn. Heat gun and piece of wood pushed em right back.

[@LyonsArcade]

We've got the black art and are going to put it on this one!

[@brad9529]

@@LyonsArcade could you do LED'S on this one for something different?

[@DavidWilliams-rn6uq]

In Clemson, there’s a bar called “Nick’s”. Back in the late 80’s, we played the heck out of an old “Paragon” wide-body. Dr. Wagner was tired of having it fixed, plus we could pretty much rack up free games all day on it. So he bought us a brand-new “The Machine - BOP” round about ‘90 or ‘91. Blew us all away. I played the heck out of that games while I was there for grad school. I read recently that they finally had to retire it, just couldn’t keep it fixed economically. I wonder what they’re playing at Nick’s now?

[@sturkrazee288]

One of my most favorite pins of all time. Thanks for the video!!!

[@ericdullaghan6703]

This is my favorite pinball. I’m yet to buy my first machine but this is on my radar.

[@LyonsArcade]

It's getting harder and harder to find the cool ones like this, everybody wants them! Thanks for watching Eric!

[@andrewdonohue1853]

@@LyonsArcade yes, and if people that have them dont want to give them up. i have a bride and im not really interested in selling her LOL

[@carloslewis8448]

This one is really really cool. I never seen this one before. Love the layouts and artwork ❤

[@goddessesstartrekonlinefle3061]

Thanks for filming all these videos! I always watch to the very end😃

[@scottgm321]

There’s an arcade here in Arlington TX that has this game. One of my favorites I would love to own. Oddly seductive

[@WreckDiver99]

Another pinball machine I'd love to have...that was a fun one to play.

[@tjsogmc]

Very classic pinball game. I never liked it much though, probably because by the time it came out I had a job and was adulting, so not much time for games. Most of my money went to Black Knight and later on F-14 Tomcat anyways. Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy watching the process of restoration and repair, and a trip down Nostalgia Lane...

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you for watching Red Scorpion!

[@curtismanley3459]

Great repair videos as always Ron explaining everything in great detail!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you for watching Curtis!

[@specialformula14]

This is my favourite pinball. Play it at night with all the room lights off !!

[@andrewdonohue1853]

i have a bride of pinbot in my collection. it's a fantastic pin, i love that game. actually my "bride" asked me to find her one, so i did. we have had it probably close to 10 years now. also in my collection i have a 1980 firepower, 1986 high speed, 1988 jokerz, and a 1995 sega apollo 13. i put LEDs in ALL my games, including firepower. several reasons why i did this. 1. they typically last much, much longer. change them once and your usually done 2. less (or probably almost no) heat. heat destroys backglasses, translights, playfeild plastics, and GI connectors. i really hate the damage the heat causes. i had to replace the backglass for firepower and the translight on high speed. they were in really really bad shape. 3. i actually like the way it looks. nice bright uniform lighting on the playfeild. i have always gone with LED's that werent excessively bright, but the lighting is more uniform. the LED's usually mean you can avoid ruining things. i look at these games as timeless artwork, and i do what i can to preserve them. i bought the backglass and translight close to 10 years ago but i have over $500 into those 2 items. i installed a LED DMD in my apollo 13, and if the other displays fail over time, i will replace them with LED displays.

[@litz13]

Joe - one upgrade to the power board (yes, I know another shop did the work on it) is the ezSBC LM323k replacement voltage regulator. It's a digital regulator, so it emits very little heat, and it produces a much more stable +5vdc. Also works great on Skee-Ball CPUs.

[@EsotericArctos]

This is a nice machine. I kind of want to go back and watch one of your Pinbot ones through and then watch this one through, just to see it all in sequence :). Such a nice looking machine for its age though.

[@SuperFluffyfluff]

That's an awesome pinball, I would rock led in it too

[@LyonsArcade]

We're gonna do it

[@lepinstar1089]

I wasn’t expecting a video today but… man. You stepped it up today.

[@TboneLoyal]

Oh well there goes the Disney rating :) Nice pinball machine. Cant wait to see how the faces revolve in game.

[@briangarvin8867]

'look people, I didn't design it!' is usually the point in the conversation where my lovely bride throws a punch at me...just sayin' folks HA!

[@LyonsArcade]

You dirty dirty man 😳

[@markjackson1444]

Always workin….happy new year Ronnie. Thanks for the great video.

[@Joe_HamRadioGuy]

That's a cool looking machine. Can't wait to see that one played.

[@MichaelAStanhope]

Funny that Williams only made 2 high production WPC Alphanumeric machines, and you have both of them there! BOP and Funhouse are some awesome machines!

[@martywolfman]

One of my favourite games. I'd love to have this with the 2.0 kit installed. 'I can speak!' 'oh no....'

[@mrk717]

Love the look of this game, great start to 2022, Ron.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you for watching Mr K!

[@Zerbey]

Nice looking machine, looking forward to seeing how the LED conversion works even though like yourself I don't personally agree with doing it. But, still, not my machine so not my decision!

[@LyonsArcade]

It's gonna turn out o.k. the good thing about LED conversions is you can undo them if you want :) Thanks for watching Chris as always, see you on the next video!

[@richardpowell7352]

One Amazon Purchase :) Thanks for the videos.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Richard!

[@Solitaire1]

There we go. I had been waiting to see this one after taking a close look at it when you had it in pieces. It will be interesting to see how she turns out.

[@LyonsArcade]

She's getting there :)

[@stphinkle]

I suspect the issue may be one of several things. 1) The position sensor that determines which face is being shown and relays the information to the CPU is not working properly or is incorrectly aligned leading to the motor being in a loop and not stopping. 2) There could be a Problem with the motor control circuits. 3) I wonder if there could be a switch stuck on that is causing this.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

And happy new year on January 1 2022.. To Ron Joe and everyone in the comment section.. Fingers crossed for 2022 not being a train wreck.. And everyone gets everything they want..

[@LyonsArcade]

2022 will be what we make it, thank you for watching Me my opinion Sche!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Never had a chance to play bride of pinbot. Or jackbot.. oh for the few years. Never knew jackbot even existed.

[@toddament8035]

I played one at Pittsburgh Replay FX a few years ago that was completely tricked out with LEDs and it looked awesome.

[@danespen5772]

I've played Pinbot many times, many places, somehow I've never run across the bride of pinbot. I'm a big fan of LEDs, especially the colored ones. I have an Aztec EM. The letters in AZTEC were all white. What was the manufacturer thinking? I put red LEDs in all the A's, blue in the Z's, etc. When you light up all the letters in AZTEC the machine looks fantastic!

[@nielsen145]

if i could afford it, i would have bought this one, rough its 2k here, working condition depends on the condition its from 5k-10k here. i grew up with this one, local after school program had one

[@LyonsArcade]

The prices are getting nuts! Totally changed the hobby

[@nielsen145]

@@LyonsArcade i was so sad, when pinball arcade lost it licenses and yes i bought the dlc just for this machine

[@zachazlett]

This is my favorite pinball and I’ve been waiting on you to do a video on it! I finally bought one in July and I love it!

[@danijelcar5184]

Nice BOP, my Firend have one play on that pin is nice and fun! 😎👍

[@denniscintron5762]

What a series 🙌🙌🙌 i saw a fun house ( my favorite)

[@Plutoniumdrache]

Nice video as usual! Looking forward to seeing the rest of this project. 29:55 - with NVRAM you lose the clock and thereby a fun feature: The birthdays of the developers are stored in the game and the machine plays a happy birthday tune and shows a message on the respective days (but this needs the clock to work, obviously). Also, it is normal that the head spins a couple times during startup until it finds its home position. The game can only "identify" face 4 by a switch on the head box; all other positions need to be derived from that. The cabinet art is really pale as you can tell by the heart around the start button which should be red. Maybe consider using the "BOP 2.0" style decals that I personally think look so much cooler than the original ones. Cheers.

[@Stoney3K]

It did cycle through face 4 a few times, so I'd suspect that switch being misaligned or not working.

[@davidhollfelder9940]

A 2 faced bot is a dicey thing .. 4 faces? .. “come on people!”

[@critter42]

I don't think there's much argument that this is one of (ONE OF, people, not necessarily THE) greatest pins ever made. I know for sure if I could afford and have the space for a real pin, it would be this one ( or Addams Family Gold edition)

[@Stoney3K]

When it comes to elaborate playfield arrangements, Doctor Who is also a pretty iconic one with its multi-level elevator and sub playfield on top.

[@jayytee8062]

Fun house is another good one.

[@whizzer9295]

Neat! Looking forward to this one. If I can make a suggestion, it would be helpful to name these with Part numbers. Part 1, Part 2. I've been going back and watch the older videos and it's a little difficult to determine the order.

[@LyonsArcade]

The older ones are first the later ones are later

[@chrisharper7956]

@@LyonsArcade 🤣

[@Practicedummy1]

What a way to start off the new year with a hot piece of pinball! :D

[@Valitzu777]

Happy New Year Joe... a great video as always. I'm excited to see this one all the way through, looks like a very fun pinball game.

[@LyonsArcade]

It's pretty awesome!

[@koknol]

My wife made me choose which pinball machine I wanted to trade in. My black rose. Or the BOP. Still got the bride

[@chal1821]

Now we're talkin. This is a beauty

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks!

[@MoparStephen]

Great pinball machine. What about all those CRTs down on the floor at 1:02 though?!? Have any for sale?

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes they're all for sale but we're in South Carolina

[@b.o.353]

Love this game. There is one locally and not in the best shape. But hey for a quarter I’ll play that game anyday.

[@noahboat580]

Why do i feel like i aquired an artbook that illustrated this kind of pinball machine? Chromed out robo girls doing whatever, i think one page had her on a bike, sold it to a friend of mine so- neat seeing something like this now

[@commandtheline]

Yes one of my favorite pinballs. I also see that super GT in the background nice. I have the same game but the red cabinet version

[@vincediesil]

This is a cool machine. I have never seen this one before. Looks like it may have been inspired by Barbarella (probably spelled that wrong).

[@naytch2003]

What a great looking back glass

[@LyonsArcade]

It's pretty Nice!

[@markseeling1723]

Yes.. LED's are a good thing :)

[@levelmeans-flat734]

My favorite show on KZbin! Stay awesome! Happy new year.

[@Tranarpnorra]

'Bride Of Pinbot' and 'Xenon', the two sexiest pinballs out there. On another note, it's nice to see that you've got more subscribers. I remember when the counter was at 15k or something. Thumbs up Ron and Joe!

[@litz13]

You need to go play Scared Stiff

[@midnightrunner0478]

I think I see where Jeff Bezos got the inspiration for his rocket. Look at the dark ship on the left ramp. 😂. Great video!

[@douro20]

I would keep the LEDs out of the flashers and the headdress. They won't look right with them. The most complex playfield feature Williams ever developed was the robotic glove in Johnny Mnemonic. I would imagine that was easily a $10,000 pinball back in 1995 just due to that.

[@litz13]

Johnny Mnemonic cost the standard $3k(ish) as a new game.

[@mrouse79565]

Joe you need to make another t shirt that says deal with it people

[@galacticgames1649]

Normal issue with the head. Homing switch either broke or is misaligned to prevent to center to home position.

[@michaelnippert945]

Remind me of the robot woman on lost in space that like doctor Smith

[@mikeoptopt618]

Nice. I use the superlube on the bakolite (or whatever it is called) discs like for the player up unit coin unit match unit on the EMs. I have never used it on SS games. I was wondering if you ever used it on the connector plugs/headers/edge connectors? I would think it would help with slowing oxidation/corrosion. but am a little afraid of it causing shorts between the pins/edge connectors.

[@PinBallReviewerRepairs]

The face is suppose to stop when the robot face is up. It could be that a switch is no good or that it is not there. Or could be that sus wiring that had tape one it. I saw at least two places it had electrical tape on it. I would check that and then put heat shrink tubing after figuring if the wires are all correct.

[@randycarter2001]

It's cheaper to make 1,000 of board type A than to make 500 of type B and 500 of type A. Not only in the manufacturing stage but in the parts inventory stage.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

But looking forward to whirlwind and fun house on future videos..

[@PlisskensRun]

I'd love to own a Pin Bot

[@fabianfarina2208]

Happy new year!

[@LyonsArcade]

Happy New Year Fabian!

[@Austin.D]

The playfield looks kinda creepy

[@LyonsArcade]

Python Angelo has been accused of that before :)

[@pl5624]

It's 2022 people....cmon people it's 2022...cmon Now....lol thumbs ☝

[@LyonsArcade]

Yup :)

[@michaelbre127]

Ya I fixed your roads its mike from Sealand

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you buddy

[@phonetape]

Happy 2022...love the videos

[@jasn2031]

In the molex connector exactly how are you getting the wires to jump to the next slot? thank you

[@victorsvarietychannel2459]

Another great project. Can't wait

[@Regelos]

I assume he discovered you after he sent out the boards, since I've seen you repair a bunch of boards.

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes he had just got them back in when he got in touch with us to see if we'd work on it, we could have fixed them up for him

[@richardperry5880]

Happy new year to u joe and your family 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

[@joesmith4675]

hi like your video

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Joe!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I have to ask.. What was the video you first mentioned python Angelo.. I'm thinking it's an EM machine.. I can't remember correctly.. But on the back glass it showed a snake character.. and somehow connecting to python Angelo.. Did he do the artwork for em machines? Or was it too early? On the timeline.

[@waynegram8907]

JOES CLASSIC, Any reasons why they are using TRIACS for the GI Lamps?

[@litz13]

Two reasons ... one it's 6.3vac (so you need a triac to switch it) ... two the CPU needs to be able to control the GI, and the easiest way to do that is with a triac ... One really cool thing WPC does (pioneered on BOP) is duty cycle the GI lamps to achieve 7 levels of brightness. It does this by detecting the "zero cycle" point of the AC power supply, and cutting the triac on/off as needed to achieve the desired brightness level.

[@waynegram8907]

@@litz13 How is the CPU detecting the zero cycle point of the AC power supply? The CPU is outputting a PWM signal to the GI amps GATE PIN of the Triac's?

[@litz13]

@@waynegram8907 the Triac drives originate in U1 on the power driver, with T0 through T4 driving the 5 triacs, and T7 driving the flipper enable relay.

[@roryvonbrutt7302]

why would the light baffles for the legs (back glass display)have cracks in them❓ they don't sit on anything do they❓❓❓ GUESS it gets warm, so many lamps❓❓

[@LyonsArcade]

Yes it's the only thing plastic back there so it dries out eventually from the heat and cracks.

[@roryvonbrutt7302]

wow I've never even seen this game ‼️®™️

[@jasn2031]

If a coil locks up and blows a fuse on the way to the board can it still damage the board and or transistors that drive the coil? Thank you

[@litz13]

Typically on WPC, a coil won't lock up unless the driver has already failed, as that's what usually causes the lockup. If the proper fuses are in place (3a SB for most coils) a locked coil will blow the fuse long before the PCB burns.

[@litz13]

Actually, just got to that place in the video. Yes, absolutely, if a coil locked up and melted (so it's dead shorted) it will absolutely destroy the driver that controls it, when a fixed board is reinstalled.

[@jasn2031]

@@litz13 So the fuse will not prevent this? Thank you

[@litz13]

@@jasn2031 it's a slow-blo fuse. The expectation from the manufacturer was part of the repair on the part of the technician (remember these were designed for commercial use) would be to fix the failure, then fix the PCB.

[@koknol]

And beware of ghosting with LED. Maybe the CPU ROM L8 I saw installed solves this problem. And a major bug in the game also.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Bride of pinbot almost lives.. But that grinding or extra noise Not quite.

[@angrydove4067]

The face looks like one of those, um, you know, dolls.

[@GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE]

Cool

[@naytch2003]

Another Pinball video people..awesome!!!

[@LyonsArcade]

LETS DO THIS

[@jayytee8062]

They only made 8100 BOPs.

[@Ren_G.]

Yay! Love my Bride💜

[@naytch2003]

I miss mine😪

[@sarahpenny1524]

If just like to ask how much would this machine co st the operator to buy no in the day and is it worth more money now as a collector's item sadly I never seen 1 over here in he UK in the flesh love your channel is put new power supplys in the old 1s try the boards lol

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Thinking jubilee? If that's correct..

[@akshonclip]

Happy New Years Ron.

[@Skeemaster]

Thumbs up! =)

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you OnefoYo

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I honestly think this was released. that's when python Angelo was part of Capcom pinball division? Not 100% sure.

[@Desuk1991]

Happy New Year, Joe

[@LyonsArcade]

Happy new Year Desuk!

[@mattwuk]

Nothing wrong with LEDs

[@LyonsArcade]

We're gonna LED it!

[@sarahpenny1524]

Some of thease as a plastic shuttle on the left-hand ramp its missing off this 1 think Williams made 8000 over there in the States could you put a New playground on it and how would you do it surely the artwork is far to old now to get a new overlay