I bought the pinball machine system that killed pinball for Williams!!  

Great video! I appreciate the mention about the inside artwork, that'll make it look so much cooler!

That wasn’t Dwight Sullivan who designed Pin2k with Gomez, it was Pat “Addams Family” Lawlor. Game came out great dude, awesome job.

This is the best looking RFM I've seen. Great job.

Great video. Nice that it's sitting right next to a TOM. Both great games.

The LEDs and side art make it stand out. Great job bringing it back to life.

This was an absolutely beautiful video. Thank you so much.

Welcome to Club 2K! I have a SWE1 and the RFM Playfield/Translite with the updated nucore PC. A lot of fun!

Great video and restoration! Its looking brand new. I really like the Pinball 2000 concept. Sad they only made two versions.

This one was a lot more fun than the Star Wars Episode 1 machine.

I did very similar in 2016 with a project RFM I came across, complete restore new side art with cab repair, pin blades that I had custom printed, etc. It has a custom topper with fog machine and interactive spaceship lights that go off if you 'attack mars' and occasionally on a timer some fog comes across the top. Custom speaker grill art, all the aliens, spaceship hand weathered and detailed, etc. It was my first ever pinball project so I went all out, even the inside of the cab is painted black and red. Had a lot of fun doing it but don't think I will ever go that extreme again lol. Happy I did because RFM is a great overall machine that everyone who plays enjoys (not just pinheads).

Good restore job on that machine man. I'd like to play one of those but I've never seen a pinball 2000 machine in real life

Labor of love. Hopefully you got a good deal at the auction so all the parts bought to fix made it a good deal.

Looks Awesome! Great job!

What parts did you use to convert to video monitor. And were can you get the new code from.

Believe it or not, TAF is actually the game that killed pinball. It was so good people didn't want to buy new ones. It stayed at "A" locations much longer than any other one.

Pinball 2000 is the inspiration for Multimorphic.

Revenge from Mars was and is a great game! Rememeber the day it came out!

Not sure I understand why this system killed a company, but the multimorphic system seems to be working, even though the concepts seem similar.

I played the final 2 Pinball 2000 (unfinished machines) "Wizard Blocks" and "Playboy." Awesome for what they were. I wish Wizard Blocks would've been released before the end. RIP Bally Williams pinball.

Just wanted to let you all know that the code was actually finished this new version of code ads, improvements and extra gameplay options like reversed flippers, tournament, play, and party mode, and points war, and some new test, features and options

It was a cool concept, but Pinball 2000 was too expensive to own and repair for arcade owners. Meanwhile the new video arcades were attracting all the players and were both cheaper and easier to maintain. So, the pinball machines faded out. I actually don’t like these machines because the top 3rd of the playfield is devoid of anything but flat targets due to the video mode.

Pinball 2000 didn't kill pinball, gambling did. Slot machines are more profitable than pinball. Revenge from Mars sold more units than most games in the 90s (not including Addams family obviously)

I still think the money Williams had to shell out in order to get the license from LucasArts in order to get the rights to make a Phantom Menace Pinball machine had a lot to say in regards to why the Pinball2000 pin failed. The Phantom Menace was the first Star Wars related movie in years and 20th Century Fox and LucasArts knew people would go nuts in order to get anything with a SW label on it. I don't know, I mean I like the idea of having interchangeable playfields and computers with only (1) cabinet, but it just doesn't seem to work. Just ask Heighway Pinball after their concept of making Full Throttle and the Alien pin in one cabinet and they went bankrupt. Love your channel and I'm jealous of your knowledge on how to fix, repair, troubleshoot and bring these pins back to life. Great job!

Could you tell me what lighting mod you installed behind the backglass.

Oddly I enjoyed this game and used to play it years ago at San Diego State University.

Episode One came out after RFM.

I have a revenge from mars I would like to know what process you used for the lcd and for the new code did you also replace the computer?

The executives of the company klled it...

pinball's market killed pinball

Nice restoration, I would suggest that you lose the RGB behind the Translite.

Finished code? I have one, but code seems complete to me, do I have the updated code? What was unfinished?

Looks like it was more junk than goed parts. I think it was cheaper to buy a working machine for 1750 . But nice job anyway sometimes its more fun to repair it yourself.

It was Pat Lawler and George Gomez

You're the Danny Carey of Pinball bro

This was the first pin I bought. It didn't kill Williams pinball production as it was a huge hit. Star Wars P2000 did that as it's practically a giveaway when you buy a P2K system now. Other than the Apron and possibly the backglass the rest were easy to source or fix on this one.

It didn't kill pinball but it was the last game that Williams made before they stopped making games so you could say it "killed" Williams

It was the Star Wars pin that killed Williams/Bally. Because the movie sucked nobody wanted the pin.

The pinball machine that 'killed' pinball is the successor "Star Wars Episode I". Due to the high license costs and the unfulfilled expectations for this model, Williams withdrew from pinball production. But in the end this was a long announced step, because Williams had been making more money with slot machines for a long time. They had no intention of holding out any longer, because the Pinball 2000 concept was and still is a very good concept and may IMHO be the future of pinball. I have both models and the RFM is by far the better model. Without the SWEI, Williams might have been forced to bring more models to market as the development team wanted and we might still have new Williams/Bally pinball machines.

RFM didnt kill pinball... SWE1 was the last one and sold poor.. Also, Williams owners wanted to focus on gambeling....

Talkin nonsense .. there was 3 built actually

Rfm did not kill pinball. That game is amazing and innovative. The arcade climate and the economy killed pinball

Dude, what is wrong with you?

It was Jar Jar Binks killed pinball 2000.