You would think it would be easy to keep up to date with monthly news.  I don’t know where the Summer has gone.

We’ve been busy with a lot of custom orders and will have some restoration articles coming very soon on the following machines:

• Prototype F-14 pinball
• Full restoration of a very very bad Kiss pinball.
• Update to the Gottlieb Playball blog – did another restoration, this time with LEDs and a couple more items.  It’s certainly worth the look.
• Another WWF Royal Rumble restoration – will update the respective blog on that machine.
• Our STERN Sharkey’s Shootout is finally finished.  It had a lot of broken elements.  Before it wasn’t so much fun to play… but now that everything is working (restored and with better lighting to boot), it’s a lot of fun.
• We’ll be starting a big restoration of our Bride of Pinbot shortly.  It’s going to get the full treatment and lots of chrome.  ooooh shiny!
• Did a nice restoration on a 1986 Williams High Speed and an Arctic Thunder arcade.  We’ll just put a couple pics below.
• Had some pictures of our Stargate and Getaway restorations from earlier this summer (see below)

Misc Pictures from late summer:

Multicade (1981 resto/upgrade)

Midway 1999 Arctic Thunder

Williams 1986 High Speed

Williams 1992 High Speed II – The Getaway

Gottlieb 1995 Stargate

Go Braves!

Early spring – YES!  With it comes lots of renewed work.  While we’re busy in the winter months, it was still tough to motivate in the cold and dark.  Thankfully, we have a good 6+ months to operate in the heat which allows us to work later into the day and paint dries so much faster.

This month, we’ve taken on all kinds of restorations this month and we’re happy to oblige:

• 1964 Rockola Jukebox (amplifier rebuild, tone-arm correction)
• Big Top gumball machine restoration.  We converted this into latest technology with color changing LEDs and remote control.  Pictures coming soon.
• Japanese Pachinko machine restoration.
• Williams F14 Tomcat pinball – collector quality restoration.  This will be a long process and will likely exceed the value of the machine, but it will be just a fantastic piece.  With this, we’re even modifying the flash circuitry to properly drive multiLED flashers.  As well, this machine is going have all the prototype parts retrofitted back in (it may already be a prototype as it has clear flash domes and a clear MARS lamp already installed.  I wonder…
• Williams Funhouse (in house) – still TBD.
• Williams Comet (in house).
• Gottlieb Stargate (in house).
• Midway NFL Blitz 2000 / NBA on NBC Showtime – with LEDs

Mid April Update

We’re adding more pinball machines for the big party month of May.  Come back and find these items in our store in the next week or so…

• Williams Terminator 2 Pinball
• Williams Demolition Man Pinball (Superpin – widebody)
• Data East Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Pinball
• Williams F14 clear coat play field
• New combination deals coming soon (multiple pinball and video/pinball combo packs)

February must be pinball time.  Well, I’m thinking it’s pinball restoration and repair month anyway.

In the queue:

• Firepower (the classic solid state game from Williams)
• Star Wars (very fun game, maybe my favorite DE after playing it a little)
• Aladdin’s Castle (nice EM)
• Playball (old old EM, very cool game)
• The Shadow (oh boy, love this game, but it needs some TLC)

Couple random pics for this month:

Oh, and that cool pinball clock – I want one.  Waiting for the designer to sell it.  Perhaps, we can get some stateside and sell them here at CastleClassicArcade.  It’s made from a real Bally plasma pinball display like this 

WWF Royal Rumble (Data East 1994 Widebody) Pinball

This machine worked for the most part, but was in need of a full tear down.  Found a couple things wrong, bad lighting circuit and a couple of melted coils from failed circuitry.  We also put in new drop targets.

This machine also suffered badly from lamp heat damage – so we did a full LED kit on it… and there are literally a ton of bulbs in this widebody.  Added some color changers in strategic spots and now the game shifts moods nicely.

Again, I kind of agree with the positive reviews on this machine.  It is a under rated pin, and kids absolutley love this thing.  The other pins in the room get completely ignored when this is on.   It’s Time To Rumble!

If the following isn’t an awesome example of before and after, I don’t know what is.  

Before LEDs

After LEDs