My new vintage pinball machine

[Gold Metal Flake]

1978 Atari Space Riders. For 150 bucks I could not pass it up. Nearly everything works and I ordered some parts to fix the rest. Yup, you can get vintage pinball machine parts at online stores. They had the drop down targets. One of mine is broken. I also got a bumper set. I had to tune a lot of the switches to get them to score or trigger corectly, and the connectors at the motherboard are not as snug as they once were. It's a fun game too. The boy wants to keep it natch but we really don't have room. Atari made the first electronic pinball machines that use a circuit board with an eprom, RAM and electronic switches instead of the old-style banks and banks of relays.

Anyone else have arcade games? Tell us and post pix if you can.

[Kat45]

1. Cool! Where did you find it?

Sounds like a good price. Don't know if I would have been able to resist it either. I miss pinball so much.

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. Yard sale.

It glowed like a chalice of gold. But I was cool. I even left but had to turn around and make an offer.

search on Craiglist in your area for pinball if only just for fun. I was surprised to find quite a few in the LA area CL.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Vintage pinball resources

The Internet Pinball Database
http://www.ipdb.org/

Cool info and links. I found a link to a PDF scan of the factory manual for my game on it.

parts:
http://bayareaamusements.com/
http://www.marcospecialties.com/

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Any loungers with vintage arcade games?

What about vintage home gaming consoles? Did I doom another promising thread with another lame subject? I suck at writing interesting subject lines. :-(

[david13]

5. Looks nice, and not a bad price. A fun item. dc

[MadHound]

6. More of an EM machine man myself,

I can work on those banks of relays and contacts, and love the machines themselves. Not that I wouldn't ever get a SS machine, Adams Family or something like that, but I would rather have old EM's and woodrails, perhaps even an old flipperless machine.

Right now all I've got is a Space Mission from '76. I wasted lots of school hours at the diner across the street playing on that machine, nice to have it in house now.

I remember playing Space Rider when it came out, and found it not all that fun, sorry. But good luck with yours, and have fun.

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. Info page for Space Mission

Wicked cool game!

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/space_mission/space_mission_pinball.htm

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG... KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG... KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG KLANG...

The sound of bliss. :D

[gratuitous]

8. Very nice

I whiled away many an hour playing those crazy flipper fingers and never tilting at all. My specialty was the Movie Time table at Lakeshore Lanes. I could shut the bowling alley down on just one quarter, and walk away from the game with a dozen free games or more. I do not count that time as wasted in the least.

[Deep13]

9. Nothing says "space" like a motorcycle.

:wtf:

Is that Bagdad in the background?

Anyway, congrats on your find.

[gratuitous]

13. How else are you going to get the anti-gravity breast phenomenon

I don't think pinball machine graphics folks had much personal acquaintance with the female form, considering how most women were rendered on the back glass.

[InternalDialogue]

11. I've got a Ms. Pac Man cocktail setup.

You know, the sit-across-from-your-opponent deal.

It was an orphan from my dad's retirement career in the '90s, placing trivia/poker/arcade games in local bars, splitting the take with the owner. His business fell apart when the big chains (Bennigan's, in particular, which provided Dad with most of his income) started tossing his machines out in favor of a big corporation that was placing games for the chain statewide. He had a Spy Hunter stand-up, Centipede stand-up, Pac Man pinball cocktail (rare!), and several others, in addition to about 30 card/trivia bartop machines. When he liquidated, he gave me my choice to take, and I picked the Ms. Pac Man, one of the best arcade games ever made.

[proteus_lives]

12. Very cool!

:thumbsup:

[Kali]

14. COOL!

I have an old Japanese pachinko machine. I would post a picture, but the dust layer is a little embarrassing even for me:hide: