Products in the “Pinball Machines” Category

Description

This legendary electro-mechanical pinball is the higher end commercial 4-player model. Built in 1976, this is the last production year before all pinball machines went to solid state electronics (first generation of the microprocessor). Only 16,155 were ever made, and not too many exist today in this condition.

Captain Fantastic was a "Tommy" inspired game picturing Elton John as pinball champ Captain Fantastic. David Christensen did the artwork for this Bally game, using a lot of bright reds and blues. Piano keyboards appeared throughout the game, which was one of the first featuring custom-designed bumper caps with drawings of Elton John's face. The back glass pictured a crowd scene based on the movie Tommy. This game also features mirror lines worked into the back glass art for a dazzling reflective effect. The background crowd features some of the artists friends as well as other historical figures. Greg Kmiec created the playfield design, which has a pleasing, uncluttered arrangement of targets and bumpers, plus four flippers.

This machine also comes with a special bonus: matching framed album cover - Elton John and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (which incidentally also won album of the year in 1976).

Restoration

This machine started with a very low 30,000 plays in it's lifetime - which shows in it's all original and untouched playfield.  Hairline cracks exist in the paint (as would any play field of this age), but no wear marks.

• Top side playfield was entirely dismantled, cleaned, polished and waxed.
• All posts were replaced
• All rubbers replaced
• All bulbs replaced.
• Plastics cleaned and are crystal clear (no yellowing).
• Pop bumpers were replaced with custom Elton John tops.
• Drop targets were replaces with custom Elton John units.
• Every single wiper contact was cleaned, filed and re-aligned.  This took a long time but necessary for long term reliability.
• New fuse holders.
• New bridge rectifier for bumpers and thumpers
• New flippers (4)
• New flipper mechanisms (4), linkage, wipers etc
• New bell coil (the other 2 worked fine).
• Works exactly like it is supposed to.  All lights, modes, alternating circuits, score wheels, over-the-top buzzer, lockouts etc work perfect.
• coin door and trim polished.  Slight dent in coin door.
• Replaced legs with chrome models
• cabinet just touched up, but no damage and fade.
• Backbox touched up, slight wear on top that was touched up.
• New locks
• Coin mechs and lockout works.

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Beautiful playfield....  we're just starting to restore this machine.   Call for information or to reserve this machine!!!  Our machines tend to sell faster than we can restore them.

Now is the time to get your hands on a ranked top 15 pinball machine of all time!

High Speed II : The Getaway is the re-release of the original High Speed pinball machine from 1986 but with newer technology and more features.  Most times in life, re-releases or second editions of anything do not live up to the original.   Not in this case.  The Getaway is universally celebrated as better than the original in every way.

This Steve Ritchie classic includes all of the original High Speed elements and uses modern pinball technology and his experience to add to this game in every way.

• Awesome sound track and improved fidelity
• Longer lasting playfield - diamond plated
• Dot matrix display
• Supercharger : electro-magnetic/optical accelerator (very cool)

Additionally, we've upgraded it even further

• Full custom LEDs in playfield and backbox
• Full range 5 1/4" back box speakers
• 8" Subwoofer with LPAD balance adjustment
• Pincab color match cabinet protectors

Restoration

Again, we've pulled apart this machine (which was in excellent condition when we received it) and did our restoration.

• All new star posts
• new rubber (white)
• new sling shot plastics.  All other plastics are perfect
• new balls
• new display
• new flippers, linkages and all associated parts
• new plungers and sleeves
• full cleaning, detail and wax
• All inserts are in excellent condition
• No wear on playfield
• Very minor color fade on side of cabinet (red is still present, which is very good)
• Rebuilt coin door
• No holes drilled in cabinet.  Cabinet and backbox is excellent original condition
• Original translite is perfect
• Overhead beacon is excellent

This machine includes warranty (in-home in local region) and is available for local or nationwide shipping.  

This machine is a Home Use Only (HUO) - which means it was purchased new and placed in someone's home - never to be seen until now.  This means it has very low hours of use, very little play and about as new condition that can be found.  This machine is un-restored, but recently upgraded with LED lighting.  Additionally, the balls have been replaced (due to age) and all the rubbers have been replaced (again due to age).  Other than that, this machine is virtually perfect - and we RARELY ever see HUO machines.

Only 3013 units ever created, and the one of the last pinball machines ever to roll off Bally/Williams/Midway production lines before they closed their doors for good.  What a way to capture an essentially new machine from the best pinball makers in the world - ever.

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As one of the last efforts by Bally and Williams (also known as Midway) to keep pinball alive was to create new and involving pinball machines.  The NBA Fastbreak is the only basketball themed pinball machine by the masters of pinball.  Recently Stern came out with an NBA pinball machine, but many view it as an inferior knock off.

This NBA Fastbreak has a very unique mechanical backbox where it shoots baskets while you play, and in one mode, you control the action of both the backbox and real game.  Not many pinball machines use the backbox for anything else but score.

Additionally, this machine has dual scoring (pinball score and baskets), which make this one of the best multi-player pinball games ever.  Typically, pinball machines are best played as single player, but have the option for up to 4 players.  This machine plays BEST with more than one player.  Of course it has all the great features of modern pinball such as multiple multi-ball modes and missions to accomplish.

Fully restored to like-new condition.   Details and pictures coming soon.

Only 4414 units were ever made.

Available late Jan 2012

Steve Ritchie and Williams pinball go back a long way.  His award winning designs include:

• Firepower  (1980 Williams)
• Defender (Co-concept with E. Jarvis) (1980 Williams)
• Black Knight  (1980 Williams)
• Hyperball  (1981 Williams)
• Devastator (1983 Williams Video Game)
• High Speed  (1985 Williams)
• F-14 Tomcat  (1987 Williams)
• Black Knight 2000  (1989 Williams)
• Rollergames  (1990 Williams)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day  (1991 Williams)
• High Speed II - The Getaway (1992 Williams)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993 Williams)
• No Fear: Dangerous Sports (1995 Williams)

Restoration

This No Fear was left alone in the dark for awhile, but that's good for you!  The result is a well preserved original playfield and cabinet.

We fully disassembled this machine and worked on literally every part to bring this back to life.

• Every board was removed, re-soldered, repaired as necessary and tested.  All wiring labeled and tested.  CPU board is trouble free without any battery corrosion damage.  Nice!!
• Each ramp removed, flame polished (including the subway ramp under the playfield), polished and repaired as necessary.  The main ramp typically gets hairline cracks from the impact of the jump ramp and heat damage from the electro-magnet accelerators.
• Talking skull fully disassembled, re-aligned and new micro coil/sleeve assembly inserted.  Custom red LED eyes and blue skull flashers used.  It's awesome.
• Entire playfield stripped, detailed, waxed.  No wear.  No Fear!
• All new rubbers (white), including yellow ramp post rubber.  You have to fully disassemble this machine to get to all the rubbers.  Many people just do the ones you can see and reach with simple tools (not us).
• All optics cleaned and tested.  This machine uses a lot of optical sensors.
• New coil sleeves on high wear items such as drop target and shooter/kickback.
• New shooter and kickback
• New No Fear button (with LED)
• New switch on drop target.
• Rebuilt coin door
• Matching pin-cab cabinet leg protectors
• Full custom LEDs in backbox, playfield and front buttons.  A MUST for this machine.
• New flippers, linkages, and all associated parts.  Including the custom JUMP RAMP flipper.  Most people ignore this.
• New slingshot plastics.  All other plastics are excellent.

The Bride of pinbot (BOP) is a unique machine in all of pinball.  This is the second in the Pinbot series, and arguably the best one of the group.  Only 8100 units were ever created.

This is the only pinball machine that shares the same circuitry as the legendary Williams Funhouse, and if you haven't noticed, Funhouse has exploded in value by almost 2x in the last year.  We expect the unique nature of this game and lineage to follow the same value trend.

Bride of Pinbot shares much of it's playfield similarities with Pinbot and Jackbot, where the right side contains the skill shot.  They also share the concept of a translucent mini pachinko style upper playfield on top of the 3 pop bumpers.  The rest is all unique to the BOP.

The main playfield toy takes up a good portion of the back of the game:  the 4 faces of the Bride of Pinbot. This object is a large spinning cube that also doubles as a mini playfield used to lock balls and show the state of metamorphosis.  The object of the game is to guide the Bride through her multiple stages in becoming human, to the dismay of her husband Pinbot.  Only videos can truly show what this is all about.  Add to this one excellent techno-inspired sound track and light show.   The special backglass is created to show lightshow animations as well as point values.

This game is fun and tough because of it's quick ramps and short playfield area in front of the flippers .  Nothing like this game will ever be reproduced again.

Restoration

This machine has been through it's own metamorphosis:

• New WPC CPU board, processor, RAM and ROMs.  The original board was eaten up by battery corrosion and in our opinion was not worth repairing.
• New coin door and lock.
• All playfield ramps and plastics removed and flame polished.  We were going to put new ones in, but the originals came out perfectly clear and unbelieveable.
• Cliffy ramp protectors added to ramp entrances.
• Original mylar carefully removed and playfield was buffed.  All BOPs seem to have the same discoloration where the mylar was NOT put down in the light grey areas.  This machine is the same, but has no playfield wear otherwise.
• New flippers, bushings, linkages, sleeves and contacts.
• New balls.
• Spinning head was fully disassembled, cleaned and re-adjusted for perfect play and alignment.
• Full custom LED kit.  We went through a lot of combinations to get a unique experience only found on a BOP.
• Full speaker replacement including 6.5" full range back box and 8" subwoofer with crossover.  With this soundtrack and heartbeat, you have to hear it to believe.
• New chrome legs with matching leg cabinet protectors round out a fantastic visual appearance.
• Back box is purple (same as cabinet) with almost no fade.  Some BOPs are found with non-matching blue backboxes (not this one).
• Cabinet has no damage, backbox has a couple chips on the rear facing corners that were repaired.

Description

Another excellent example of a Bally pinball machine.  This WPC generation pinball machine is one of the few sports related pinball machines of the era.  At first glance, this machine appears to look easy and simple minded as the apparent goal is to shoot pinballs past the moving goalie.  Play it a couple more times and you'll find that this machine is much much deeper with a larger purpose in mind - to beat Germany and win the World Cup.

This pinball machine actually has 2 unique playfield toys: a center mounted goal in the far back of the machine with a moving goalie.  The goalie is also a playfield target, so the machine reacts when you strike him, or in some modes, the idea is to hit the moving goalie.

The other toy is the large spinning soccer ball.  This ball will spin in either direction and will deflect pinballs all over the playfield.  Hit it right and you can score a wild shot past the goalie.

This machine integrates awesome video animations on the large 128x32 DMD display that are timed perfectly with the game play.  This machine also has a unique set of multi-ball modes unique to this machine.

World Cup Soccer also has one of the better light shows with use of deep color elements all over.

There are 2 levels of ramps that are smooth and fast.  At one end is a unique ball lock mechanism powered by an electro-magnet.

This machine is a favorite with beginners because of the playful nature, but very fun and rewarding for the advanced pinball enthusiast.

Only 8,743 units produced.

Restoration

This machine went through a deep restoration process.  More so than many of our machines.  Other than the typical full top side teardown and replacement of rubber pieces, this machine has:

• New purple playfield ejection cups.
• All ramps in perfect condition were flame polished for clarity
• New ramp direction linkages
• New goalie target and decals
• New decals on standup targets and spinner
• All annodized gold items were turned chrome: wiremold ramp, skill shot, legs.  We believe this machine looks a ton better in chrome than with the gaudy gold annodized parts.
• New thumper plastics and skill shot diverter
• Cliffy protectors installed on all ejection cups, start holes and goal.
• coin door fully rebuilt
• Full custom LED in playfield, back box, coin door and buttons.
• new start button
• new balls
• new flipper buttons
• all new flippers and full linkage mechanisms
• new locks
• electronics in super original condition.  Display is ultra bright and crisp.
• custom hand rebuilt soccer ball by us.  Hand painted and clear coated.  No wear!!!!   You wont see another like this.

Sold out - call if you are interested in one