Bally World Cup Soccer
What would happen if you mixed foosball with bubble hockey? This! Push the levers forward and back to move the players and mash down on the button to make them …
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Funny Tubing
Convoluted Tubing? We prefer tubing that gets right to the point.
Fish Tales Extras
We’ve had a lot of fun putting some extras on this Fish Tales for our friend Ryan. We can customize your machine, too! Still have to get the ramps and …
Close Encounters
Check out this Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This 1978 Gottlieb machine is one of 9,950 manufactured. Notable for the roto target at the top of the playfield. Interestingly, …
Fish Tales LEDs
Putting some LEDs into a Fish Tales for a customer. He had the brilliant idea to make the fish eye red and use a color-changing bulb in the lure. Doesn’t …
Desoldering
Leslie used our desoldering iron for the first time. She was proud to collect this mound of solder. Kind of an interesting picture close-up. She replaced the 40-pin interconnects on …
Johnny Mnemonic Gearbox
A Johnny Mnemonic machine we’d bought was having movement issues with the magnetic hand in the left rear of the playfield. It didn’t want to move left to right. The gearboxes …
The Ghost of Austin Powers
We were shopping a Stern Austin Powers a few weeks ago and noticed the translite seemed a little opaque at the black ink. We took it apart and found some of …
Gorgar Plastics
Sometimes you come across a machine where the plastics are, um, a bit wavy. Like this Gorgar. We were getting it shopped for a customer when we realized just how …