Shop Tip: Simpsons
Here’s an easy way to make shop jobs easier: Buy a second version of your machine. It’s a handy, 3-D guide for putting your own pin back together.
Firebird Pinball in the News
We’re happy to have helped the folks setting up the new teen center in Sierra Vista. That arcade will be rockin’ every weekend!
Big Game Is Gone
We gave this Big Game a full shop job. This game works 100% and the playfield, cabinet and backglass were all in good shape. Check out this cool four-flipper game!
Pinball Apparition
Every night since Halloween, we’ve been visited by a strange apparition in the shop. This bizarre greenish kind of man-thing has a well-defined physique and speaks in a curious and long-winded …
Blackout Before and After
Here’s a bit more about our rockin’ Blackout. We put a lot of work into this one, especially our artist-in-residence, Judith Newell. Great work, Judy! More on it here.
This Blackout Rocks!
Here’s an old shop job on a Blackout. It turned out really well!
Flight 2000 on the Rotisserie
Look what we’re doing this week! Playfield swap on a Flight 2000. The folks at Stern made about 6,300 of these in 1980. It was their first talking machine.
Working on the Black Rose
This sure is a family business! Three generations of us working on a pin at once. Now that’s some real family bonding.
Gremlins
Something tells me the kids have been playing in the shop again…
Finished Fish Tales
We’ve been prepping this game for weeks. Our customers requested a lot of extras — they’ve been dreaming about this game for a long time! Definitely the brightest Fish Tales …