Thankyou! We have around 50 keepers in our personal collection and then a bunch of doubles and triples of those. I'm a Classic Stern and Bally guy at heart so those late 70's and early 80's pins are my home. EBD, Quicksilver, Star Gazer, F2K, Harlem Globetrotters, Flash Gordon, Fathom to name just a few.
@@pinballdoctor The Apple 1 used the 6502. It was much cheaper than the 6800. The 6502 was created by 6800 engineers who left Motorola and started their own company. The processor was designed to be cheap and fast. The company almost went out of business until Commodore bought them.
This is the dream. Bought this machine for $125 from an M.C. clubhouse, still had $18 in the till. Has been sitting in storage for over a decade. I don't even know what I dont know as far as getting where it needs to be.
I have this machine and mine is #1243. I had a new playfield installed. I plan on installing modern electronic boards for safety. The backglass has slight lifting at the bottom edge ... but other than that, it's in pristine condition. A great classic machine ! I forgot to mention, Bally only made 1300 machines of this 3rd. and final run of this game.
Thankyou sir! Yes you can email me. =) They were very hard to locate reproductions and special care is needed with installing as they are a bit more rigid than the originals and can break upon installation if not careful. dave@pinballdoctor.com
Wow! gorgeous! I’m the proud owner of SN #460436! It has system 6 Power board and the rest is 7, all original…I’m currently doing some updates and fixing a few things (an endless task) what did you use to buff the ramps? Those are jumping off the screen at me…wow!
How easy are Atari pins to maintain when compared to other companies' pins? I heard that Atari ones were not very well engineered and were prone to breakdowns.
This was my favorite pinball machine in 1979 and is probably still my all-time favorite. Your restoration is amazing! I used to play this in a bar where I'd go dancing and the machine was fairly worn at that time. Yours lets me know what it was like when it was brand new. Also enjoyed watching you play a few games on it, relived my past vicariously through you.
Indeed! It was a 2 level playfield game changer from Williams that the other guys (Stern and Bally) had to copy in their own style with Stern Lightning and Bally Vector.
I want that. There were certain pool and bowling themed games from Gottlieb that seemed to be made specifically for the billiards-area of the bowling alley. I played just about every machine ever made having grown up near the Jersey shore in the 60s and 70s. Before solid state the pinball selections for EM were 40s to the 70s. Warehouse after warehouse of machines. Amazing how many pinball designs there actually are in the world. For me, EM is more interesting and imaginative. Robotic art that presents a puzzle to the end user. Don’t tell me that the old clunkers won’t punish you beyond the tilt if you bump and nudge in all the wrong places. These machines have personalities.
Also, I appreciate your skills as a player and whoever is doing the camera work. So often the camera is focused on the reels spinning or some girls breasts or a close-up of someplace on the board and you miss all the action. This is a great game I used to play it as a kid. When I was 12 years old, I knew gottlieb were the games to play.
Thankyou! That would be my wife Maureen. She is my camera woman. =) Really fun early 70's Gottlieb made even better when you upgrade the flipper buttons to the later 70's style so you don't tear off your fingernails while playing. =)
Sr. I have a 6:54 1979 Superman Atari machine just like your video shows I need a few light bulbs small light bulbs what size are they and where can I buy them. Thanks
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@@pinballdoctor I was like 13 years old when I first was introduced to it. It always stuck in my head, the u-turn and then the cracking noise it made for free games.
Thankyou! This was a customer's game we restored. I liked playtesting it so much that it brought back memories of playing this title in a Ice cream shop back in the late 70's my friend Paul and I would hang out at. Excellent Ice Cream and 70's pins like Evel Kneivel and 6 Million Man. I found one for myself, actually ...it found me. A cutsomer called me and said he had one he wanted to sell. Nice shape but not working but I can take care of that. =) Picked up a new playfield for it too! Once I get caught up with customer restorations, I'll be doing one of these for me. It will be over the top like the Centaur I just restored. www.pinballdoctor.com
Masterpiece buddy. This was a classic my cousin and I played all the time at the bowling alley. I’m looking to find a vintage pinball machine and will definitely reach out when obtained.
Thankyou. =) I have lots of similair titles in the restoration queue that are available on my website: www.pinballdoctor.com. You can message me about one of those there that I could restore up for you or you can send me one you find and we can restore it to play like new condition. Where are you located?
