As work continues on the repair of a Game Plan Sharpshooter II pinball machine, I felt compelled to make a quick video to show what happens when you don’t properly maintain your game, specifically not routinely replacing the pinball with a new one. The previous owners of this machine illustrate this cautionary tale…
Lately I have been adhering to a self-imposed moratorium on picking up any more pinball machines. Honestly, I’ve really been doing my best to avoid it, and the fact that so few show up in my area makes that easy, so when a friend-of-a-friend said they knew someone with a game in their garage they wanted to get rid of, it was worth a look… here’s the video and info on my acquisition of a relatively rare game, albeit in questionable condition…
Game Plan’s Sharp Shooter II is an interesting game… I have never owned a Game Plan game before so this is all new to me and the technology is different. Watch along with me as I fumble around seeing what the deal is with this crazy garage pickup…
Guns and Roses is one of Data East’s most desirable pinball machines, if not their most valuable. It’s a great game with a ton going on, but there was a fundamental flaw in the initial design of the game which caused lots of problems. Data East came out with a fix involving a replacement part that is now unobtainable. So is there a work-around for this? We try to find out…