Watch as we show you an AMAZING SPIDERMAN in AMAZING condition!! A System 80 Gottlieb machine with comic book artwork and see just how nice they can look with LED's!
Great to find this video. Thanks for uploading it. I owned one of these machines in 1988/1989. At my house in Mary Street, East St. Kilda, Melbourne it had prime place in the Games Room. We had many hours of playing fun on this machine. Excellent game play, scoring opportunities, flow, layout, sound effects, graphic design and skill potential/testing e.g. practicing hand-eye co-ordination. I paid $600 for it from a local supplier. Quite a few of the original 7625 machines that were produced had made their way from Chicago to Australia by that time. I sold it in 1990 for about the same price when I moved house. It was remarkably maintenance free for the year I owned it and we really did play a lot of games on it. P.S. I have enjoyed pinball machines ever since I set up the "FLASHERS Pinball Playing Club" with school friends in 1980 as a 15 year old. The name of the club was all the first letters of the surnames of the eight members of the club.
I was working for Rockwell Int. when they manufactured the circuit boards for this machine. If you find a board with the 866 stamped on it, I ran the final tests on that board. I would repair anything that was wrong with them then but them in the pinball machine and play the game for 15 minutes. Sometimes, I got to play eight hours a day.
I first seen this game when it first came out at an ice cream parlor, but unfortunately, it was out of order, so I couldn't play it. And today, I finally had a chance to play it and it was a very fun game to play and I kept on getting replays since the first replay was set at 230,000. What did surprise me was that this game was set at 50 cents a game. What I did like about the game was it was set at 5-ball. I spent about 45 minutes playing this game.
Yes...alot of people are vending pinball machines at 50 cents. If you think about it...in 1980 it was 25 cents to play pinball and a can of soda was also 25 cents and a candy bar was 25 cents....but now, how much is a can of soda and a candy bar at the same arcade? And the pinball still a quarter???
I remember the store back in Iowa when I was growing up where comics were a dime. They had a pinball game and I had to stand on a box to play it. I forget the name as the store owner got rid of it as my Dad and I were the only ones who played it.
Todd, I noticed the solder joint @4:09 on the transistor (Q2 or Q3?), it is a little hard to see, but was the PCB around the solder pads burned or is that left over flux? If it is left over flux, you can clean that up with a little alcohol and a Q-tip. Don't forget the nuts for the bolts on the transistor. I know how you are a stickler for high quality. Thanks for the videos!
I like spiderman I would of liked the pinball machine to have spiderman sound bites. But lovley looking game. You guys make those machines look how they should. I would love to walk round and arcade with all your machines you have dont. I bet that arcade would be massive. Oh and todd I think you have finally lost it fella. But another great vid and I get my TNT fix. Thanks guys.
Hey todd, I have a system 1 Sinbad. I've heard they need some ground modifications as well. Could you tell me which boards need the additional grounds?
I have NOT heard that. The grounds on the bottom of cabinet were terrific in System 1. The weak point is that horrible power supply. The pins get ice cold. I have had people repin those connectors though for a better connection, especially using the newer pins with the three sides to them.
TNT Amusements Inc Todd, here is the write-up I was reviewing. They talk about the modifications as being mandatory! I've purchased new boards but haven't installed them yet as I need to redo a couple of the connectors. It sure was a bit scary to see all of these recommendations. Just wanted your professional input....Thanks www.pinrepair.com/sys1/index.htm#ground
Hi all can anyone tell me what the lamp numbers are for ball in play and number to match? Not the bulbs but the numbers assigned to them in ROM or on the machine itself. I am working on a direct2B backglass for visual pinball.
Well.....we use this term to describe the contact cleaner we use when cleaning connections. It dries and does not leave a film. However, it DOES have another meaning! Look up Jism.
TNT Amusements Inc Lots of 80s Gottliebs have it. I think it's excusable on Black Hole and Haunted House because there are shots on both right-hand flippers but others I think it's a bit odd.
TNT Amusements Inc sorry if my ocd got the best of me. just after the voting.. became a fan. , but they bring such charm to the episodes :) Steve and Frank do to. Sure I'm not doing anything. which this month has been converting dvdr's to bdrs. to save space.. (not DL BDR's $$$$ per GB too pricey) but 4.7 vs 23gb sure that saves space
I have always wondered why people abandoned picture tubes...as they look better than LCD's. And the theaters abandoned film, which looks better than digital. However, yesterday, in my showroom, the 69 year old man and his wife were NOT interested in ANY of the pinball machines I had on the floor that had light bulbs in them (not upgraded yet)--even though I took them back and showed them one machine that was half way changed out to LED's. He said "I cannot visualize how it will look unless I see it" and proceeded to buy a game with LED's. Its just the way it is!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F_rVIGajCQk.html Todd here my friend Marcelo Blanco (club Pinballs Argentino) a great restoreman of argentina and hes work in spiderman!
