Troubleshooting a Gottlieb Pro Football EM Pinball With Schematics 

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I just got one of these machines. This is a good resource. Also, your video quality has increased a lot since this video. Haha. Very interesting stuff.

Just got my first pin and eager to learn maintenance, teaching myself with help from pinside and people like you, thanks!

Favorite quote while working on a pin "What the Hell !" lol My words exactly!

I’m new to EM ownership and learn something every time I watch one of your videos - thanks.

Fun to watch since I am finishing up my Pro Football. I used the schematic a lot to find out where to go to fix a problem. Since it started and reset scores I never cleaned every switch contact, but in hindsight I would recomend it. I am a little concerned about the worn plastic gear inside the steppers. They work fine so far...I cleaned the contact surface with alcohol, wiped on a tiny bit of dialectric grease and a drop of Tri-flow on the plastic gear. I also had to check out the when lit lights are always lit and the football point score vs play field scores. Simple when you realize what it was designed to do. It plays very well. I loose a lot of balls between each pair of flippers, grrr. I have a few lights that don't want to work that are bad sockets-1 GI and 3 match score. I'd buy it again! Thanks for the video!!

EM = Electromechanical Magic. The Christine joke was hilarous. Thanks for the video.

thank you joe, for another great pinball repair video :) x

You make fixing these machines seem so easy...lol

GOOD JOB. Neat game.

Well the back glass didn't fix itself.. But if the pinball machine starts hunting down your enemies and start playing early 50's love songs to you. You should start getting worried.

love your videos!!!!!!!!!

Enjoyed as always thanks!

Looking forward to the solution to the 6\5 point problem...seeing something similar on my pain-in-the-butt Jack-in-the-box!

The those lights turn off when the score motor is moving, When the score motor is moving game is not able to add points. So the lights turn of to indicate that no points can be added at that time. Do one rollover and the wone next to it at the same time. it will not add the points for that second roll over and if you look the lights are off. so it does what it says it will do. Scores only when lights are on.

would love to see a blooper video.

Nicr repair job 👍☕😎

Should there be more chimes?

Thanks 🙏 nice video

Q: Why is it that EM pinball machines only had (have) three chimes?

Looks like they were using common core math by how those reels behaved 🤣 cant go wrong with a classic pin no cheezy sound effects just bells and the blap plap of the ball

I have a question for you about what is possibly an ultra rare very very early black and white CRT monitor computer game. I think it was called "UFO" or "U.F.O." It was a "shoot the space ship" game and the cabinet was huge and very expensive. I think I saw it in the arcades in Old Orchard, Maine in 1971 or 1972. The cabinet was a huge cylindrical form with a stool in the center that did a full 360--degree pivot. You sat on the stool facing a monitor and you had some basic controls. The graphics were simple bit mapped graphics, a star field and a simple space ship. If the space ship went off the right edge of the screen, you pivoted the chair clockwise with your legs to bring the space ship back into view. Pretty amazing for its time, you were playing the game in a "true" virtual 3D space. It was probably too huge and too expensive to make it in the market so I am assuming they only did a single production run. I was wondering if you might know the story of that game. Considering the time, it may have been one of the very first processor/ROM/bit-mapped-graphics games ever released.

wait this isnt english football