A very common source for pinball machines is from storage lockers. And when you help someone clean out a storage locker, you never know what other kinds of deals there might be. This is the story of getting a pinball machine and something else (that makes a pinball machine seem puny).
In this 2-part series I go over installing a shaker motor in a Stern Jurassic Park pinball machine. I also run into a few weird glitches with the hardware sent me. That’s the world of pinball… nothing ever goes 100% smoothly does it?
Sometimes going after a pinball machine takes you on a weird and wacky experience. Here’s my story of running into a really weird character who did a number on me.
This is a story of one of those really rewarding moments when a rare game shows up, and also you have it given to you. Being in the right place at the right time pays off!
This is a story about finally acquiring a game I’d been looking for for the entire length of my pinball hobby. It was one of my grail games, and I wheeled and dealed until I managed to get one. Here’s the story.
Sometimes when you really want a game, you have to “play hard to get.” Here’s the story of me doing that and it working out ok. I’d say that’s a 50-50 chance but in this case it worked out.
As soon as I thought I had the game operational, I waxed the playfield and got ready to put it back together only to find out one of the flippers was out. This was a rather tricky issue that took a little bit to figure out — not your typical flipper problem, so I thought I’d do a video of it and go through the process of diagnosing why a flipper might not work (on a Bally-35 early solid state game).