Holiday orders are keeping us dancing so our inventory is changing quick.  However, we have some machines coming ready soon.   Of course, custom orders always take precedence over our own inventory, so if you see anything you like here, inquire today.

Williams – No Good Gofers Pinball  – limited edition run, one of the very last machines built by the Williams / Bally company (Dec 1997)

Williams – Fish Tales Pinball – Super fun original title when pinball was king and Williams was turning everything into gold.  Awesome game

Williams – Alley Cats Shuffle Board – 9′ long shuffle alley.  Restored, full LED display conversion.  Super nice and one of the last shuffle alley machines made.   This machine is READY to GO today

Valley Cougar 8 Professional Darts – full size soft tip dart machine.  Play one of many built in games or play against the intelligent computer opponent.  This has every bell and whistle made.

Millipede / Centipede Multicade – Super nice Millipede / Centipede machine converted to multicade.  With 25″ huge monitor.  Only one available

…. more coming soon in Dec news update

New Games

• New multicade machines are back in stock.  Pacman, Ms. Pacman, Galaga and more all in one machine.
• Demolition Man Pinball – this wide body pinball has some of the best gadgets in the game.  Ramps galore. 6 ball multiball and more.
• WWF Royal Rumble – another wide body pinball with a mini play field.  Restored and ready to go.  Will not last long
• Rapid Fire – This unique machine is what happens when you combine pinball, a chain gun and space invaders.   This is a very rare opportunity to add a game like this to your collection or bar.
• Alley Cats Shuffle Bowler – Nearly 9′ of awesome.  Shuffle bowling has been around since the 50’s, but this late 1980’s model is what happens when you take the very best, add solid state electronics and full LED conversion.   We usually don’t do machine like this, but it was a rare opportunity to pick up a great arcade game.
• Williams Cyclone – the 2nd of the roller coaster series, but arguably the best of the bunch.  You know, the one with Ron and Nancy Reagan in the front seats!    Fully restored, new playfield and more.  High End pin for half the price.  Est this fall

Contact Issues

OOPS – Our email was full.   We had no idea that we went over the quota and all incoming email has been blocked.  Perhaps for a couple weeks.    The problem has been fixed.  Sorry !!!

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!

Pacman, Ms. Pacman and Galaga are easily the most identifiable arcade games of the 1980’s.   They were both manufactured using the same cabinet style, however not the exact same cabinet.

Originally, in 1980, Pacman was released in it’s iconic cabinet (and yellow color) and took the world by storm.  Ms. Pacman was it’s successor in 1981, originally marketed to appeal to the female gamer (thus the blue, yellow and pink colors).  It really didnt matter as Ms. Pacman quickly overtook Pacman as the most popular game ever because of it’s changing maze and better game play.

Also in 1981, Galaga was actually an experiment in reusing the same game hardware and appeared to be released in cost reduced form – as the cabinets were actually made from pressed cardboard instead of the original multi-ply wood design.  Over the years, Galaga machines have suffered from age. Most of the time, cardboard cabinet has absorbed so much water that it mushrooms and de-laminates to a point of no-return.  As a result, we typically will use Ms. Pacman cabinets and convert them over to Galaga, or go the route of the “reunion style” and put both Galaga and Ms. Pacman graphics on the cabinet.  This emulates the 20th Anniversary Reunion arcade games that were re-released in the early 2000’s, but at a much reduced cost.

All cabinets of this style hold the 19″ vertically oriented monitor.  This means that the 4×3 monitor i s turned 90 degrees so that it sits taller than wider.  This is the orientation for many games of the early 1980’s such as: Galaga, Pacman, Ms. Pacman, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Centipede, Millipede etc.   Also, the monitor in these cabinets are laid down almost flat – like a table.