1979 Bally Star Trek Pinball Review & Gameplay - All Finished Up! 

I remember that :)

Thanks!

Yeah that's really a great shot (If I could just make it on video, lol). Fun game!

Thank you Burt!

We're doing great Roiberad, thanks for watching!

It turned out really nice! We're working on a nicer one now though :)

Glad you enjoyed it Kevin.

Yes sir, there were actually several, I think there were three of them!

@@LyonsArcade There are four--this one, the Data East 25th Anniversary, the Williams Star Trek: The Next Generation (one of the greatest pinballs of all time), and the Stern one based on the Abrams movies (which had several minor variants). That's not counting unlicensed knock-offs.

Yeah you know how it is, you have to get that stuff really strong to make it fun. Another thing I didn't mention in the video is, we always make ours more steep, if you look @ the beginning you can see the back leg levelers are almost all the way out. If the game is waxed and the flippers are strong, it can handle the angle and makes it play a lot better. Some games with saucers it doesn't like the slope but usually they manage to play faster.

Thank you Mike, really enjoyed this game!

Dammit I always get my Klingons and Romulans mixed up :) Thanks for the clarification!

Hahah! You're welcome!

are you 100% sure... memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/D7_class

It's a great game, we've got another one we're working on right now, what a classic!

@@LyonsArcade i played this game in the early 80s for many many hours playing with multi players. A fantastic pinball machine.

Thanks Melanated Prose, we appreciate you watching :) This was a great game, we have another one we're doing in the distant future :)

Thanks Will, we appreciate it :)

I want to get one of those Atari's so I can video all the work on it :)

I think you're right! There was an interesting little thing going on too with the game "Super Sonic"... if you go look at that one, it supposedly was going to be the original Star Trek design but they changed it around a little bit and made that one a Concorde Jet theme.... There's a big "S T" on the playfield on Super Sonic.... And then to make it more interesting, Super Sonic was a redesign of "Star Ship".... which was a straight up Star Trek ripoff, complete with a fake Enterprise! Check it out here: www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=3498 And you can kind of see what Bally was up to at the time....

I can see that, definitely!

I think we should all just start referring to her as the Bald chick, it will eliminate a lot of confusion :)

you seem upset

@@LyonsArcade not at all, just stating facts

We've never had either of those, we did have the Data East one from the 25th anniversary. It was pretty cool we've got a video of it on here somewhere....

Thank you!

Now we know :)

The game was originally released with a TOS-themed backglass but everyone got a Motion Picture "costume change" mid-production run. That's why it looks so odd. The original backglass looks great!

Thank you!

Thank you for the info!

Did I do anything right, or do you just want to point out what you think's wrong? You missed some wrong stuff, I probably messed up all kinds of things if you go back and watch the video again. Any comments about my accent?

@@LyonsArcade Wow, I'm sorry you took my comment as a negative or an insult -- I was just making an observation. For the record I love your videos (I think I've watched at least 95% of them) and think your accent is great.

Look at the tilt bob inside of it and see if it's touching the ring it hangs down inside of, if that's not it, there's a capacitor right there on the tilt bob that sometimes shorts together and causes that problem. We had the exact same thing happen on this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o7LOaFwbpEw.html

Hi crapcbm! The MCR106-1 you can replace with NTE5455 .... or C106BG, or you can probably still get the MCR106's from BigDaddy-Enterprises.com (they sell pinball parts).... The smaller ones were originally 2n5060's, but you can replace them with 2n5064's, there's probably other stuff that will work but we've been able to find enough of those on ebay that it hasn't been an issue.... On the solenoid board, yes Tip102 which are still available. Glad to hear you're saving one, we need more people like you willing to mess with them a little bit. Once you fix the stuff if you have any issues it's much easier to repair because you've already been completely through it! Thanks for watching, see you on the next video!

Hi , thanks ;) I will look for these types ;) Yesterday I also found a lamp board used without any warranty, but has the right components on it, 15 bugs is a good price imo "because you've already been completely through it" that is correct! Then one knows it in- and outside (how we say). There is much work ... the playfield is like destroyed, the pre owner removed the (i forgot the word "mailard"?) protection sticker in the lower half of the playfield and complete removed the paint (he better watched your videos haha) then he repainted it somehow ... bad ... It is okay, but if one doesn't know how it has to be, it is okay... I have seen ebay 233371290433 but that's too much money in my opinion, and to much work (remove really everything, sand down the complete field, make a good surface, and no one knows how long this sticker will last ... and it will lose it's 40+ years old flair. The playfield will look to good then. I only want to restore it to save it like it is, do some small things here and there. I have also seen ebay 303336127471 sticker, but that was "ok" repainted. Like above, the surface must be smooth or it will peel off again... and make it more worse. Have ordered parts from flipperteile.com they arrived today, also had to buy a "inch hexagon socket wrench" for the screws for the flipper fingers I will use white silicone rubber rings, they say they last longer and make no dirt Oh, and ... repainting things ... I tried these color pens (like an Edding pen, but with real color. It works somehow. But colors don't match the pen cap ... damn ... I didn't think, that it will make it much more worse... now there is color in the places where the wood was shining thru. Now I will keep that like it is and wax wax wax it :D that should protect it for so long and but I don't clear coat it now. May be later I will find someone who is good in painting in detail and can fix some wrong and missing paintings. We have so many students here in Heidelberg, there must be one that needs some extra money :D My goal is now to do the neccesary things, fixing old issues so nothing bad will happen in the near future. Writing long story ... now it's time to go back to work in the pinball :D Cheers, Andy (i hope my english is ok and everything makes sense :D )

if you like to see pictures: a68k.de/galerie/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=85 there is also a google translate link in the first post (hope it makes sense in the translation) Today I had the time to eventually upload the pictures, as I have to wait for more parts and it is good for my back bones, that was really too much the last days haha but if you have the "tunnel view" and only see the pinball machine, you don't care that much ... Now I try to get these drop-down-targets in star trek design :D These original round targets absolutly missmatch the Star Trek theme. (or can you give a link please?)

as no one replies when asking for these targets, made my own. blanc targets (NOS) and stickers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-26f-GFliAVc.html

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g5u7CF79of4.html now it's chiming on start like it should in correct theme. Next task, try to modify the soundboard ... 4 Bits? mh... Corona gives us much time now ...

Not yet :)

The originals broke, we put these new ones in. Buyer loved them.

Joe's Classic Video Games So long as customer was happy. Cool.

That's what they do in pinballs :)

Whoops!

I have no clue we never measure. It's more steep than it's supposed to be, we always make them pretty steep.

And leaning to the right 👻

At the time I think it was $2300 or something they've went up since then. Thanks for watching pinball fanatic!

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