I am a newbie, picking up a cheap MR MRs Pac Man as it was the only machine I could realistically afford at the time.
There have been options to trade up to some other (more advanced) machines. However these are Data East games and from what I can see the maintenance required is likely to be more, the parts less available and more expensive. Am I right here?
My Pac Man is full of Alltek boards and has a very simple playfield - I have a Geeotech Pac Maze and there seems a lot less that could go seriously wrong. Right now I don't have the cash to buy a cab that could then cost me another £500 to get a new MPU etc. It appears these are a lot harder to find for Data East games and more expensive. Gotlieb seems to be the same deal.
It seems to me that there is this golden generation of 1980s Bally games like Flash Gordon, Fathom, Centur, EBD etc that have been made very easy to keep going through Alltek. A luxury that other groups of games don't seem to have. For a newbie like myself I am inclined to stay in my lane for a while, unless someone has better info.
There have been options to trade up to some other (more advanced) machines. However these are Data East games and from what I can see the maintenance required is likely to be more, the parts less available and more expensive. Am I right here?
My Pac Man is full of Alltek boards and has a very simple playfield - I have a Geeotech Pac Maze and there seems a lot less that could go seriously wrong. Right now I don't have the cash to buy a cab that could then cost me another £500 to get a new MPU etc. It appears these are a lot harder to find for Data East games and more expensive. Gotlieb seems to be the same deal.
It seems to me that there is this golden generation of 1980s Bally games like Flash Gordon, Fathom, Centur, EBD etc that have been made very easy to keep going through Alltek. A luxury that other groups of games don't seem to have. For a newbie like myself I am inclined to stay in my lane for a while, unless someone has better info.