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Sold Bally Goldball Project - definitely gone this time!

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I could really do with some space and the Goldball is so far down the list of things to do it has to go.

Description is as follows. I can take pics if required, but as doing so will involve digging the game out I haven't bothered so far in case no one was interested! :rolleyes:
  • Playfield is reasonable with some wear but not too bad.
  • Cabinet is ok, a bit faded but no major dings. Legs present but tatty.
  • Backglass is poor, bubbling and cracking paint and no lift bar.
  • Electronics don't work, MPU is locked up. It looks remarkably corrosion free, but does have an empty socket where the ram should be.
So all in all not great condition.... :) It is a rare game though, and I'm only after £125 so if anyone has any interest let me know? Will prob end up being parted out if no-one wants it. :(

Cheers,
Andy
 
Hi Peter

I'm in Bristol. Easy motorway access from pretty much anywhere! :)

Cheers,
Andy
 
You know me... I would never throw or break anything until the very bitter, past the point of no return, end.

If I can save it I will! Only 1,750 made....
 
Nedreud said:
Well considering her cat just cost me over a grand to have its pelvis bolted back together by Fitzpatrick Referrals after being hit by a car (and that's after the pet insurance covered the first £3,000) I think there won't be a leg to stand on. Pot, kettle, black and all that :p
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After that kind of vet bill I'd have hoped the cat would have had all four legs to stand on???;):):cool:
 
Andy and I have reached a preliminary agreement on the sale (it's never done done till it's done, so to speak). He's going to get me some photos this weekend and assuming we can find suitable date during the busy summer holidays it should be filling the last remaining pinball sized gap between Paragon and Vector soonish.

Nickbs said:
After that kind of vet bill I'd have hoped the cat would have had all four legs to stand on???;):):cool:
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The cat definitely still has four legs to stand on! In the grand scheme of things he came of pretty lightly with just a fractured pelvis that needed only one screw and one pin. My wife has seen much worse. Much worse. The four grand bill could have been double or triple that.

ronsplooter said:
6 Million Dollar Cat?
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Wow... that was a bit of a flashback! Not seen that for donkeys years :D
 
Good old Todd N. Tuckey! Need to know the rules and gameplay for an old pinball? He's probably done a video for it in his "Understanding Pinball" series:

 
I love his videos - they're just pure pinball porn.

Watched a nice one on a refurbed AFM they'd done last night - looked stunning.
 
Steve C said:
When completed @Nedreud to be know as @Goldenballs
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Isn't Goldenballs what David Beckam is called?

I'm really looking forward to restoring GB! Watching that video and reading the manual it's quite a simple game. I thought there was something missing from the IPDB entry as it only lists:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Rollunder spinner (1)

But that's mostly correct. It only has one slingshot (right) as the left is passive (just a switch to register a hit for scoring). No drop-targets, two star roll-overs, just one reversed in-lane on the left (there's no in-lane behind the over-sized right-hand slingshot), 7 spot-targets in two banks of three and a single, and as best as I can tell just 7 roll-over switches. Seems to me as though Bally were really trying to keep the budget low on this machine!

But it does have the most fabulous retro art-work and the random gold ball is so cool!

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Peter was happy with the pics so the game is now sold, though due to holidays etc collecting it will may well have to wait until the last weekend of August.....!
 
RudeDogg1 said:
Will the marriage survive tho lol
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But this one isn't another pinball machine... it's just a pile of junk for spare parts, right? ;)

replicas said:
Great to know it's going to be rescued from being broke for parts.
Yeah :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:
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lukewells said:
Three cheers for @Nedreud, the Bally saviour :thumbs:
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I know :oops: I've got a real soft spot for old Bally SS (Solid State) games. For me, there was a run of classic machines between about 1976 and 1983. This period was a golden age of pinball output for Bally and the only time they did production runs that exceeded 10,000 machines per title (except Wizard! in 1975 with 10,005 but that was an EM). 1977's Eight Ball topped the lot with 20,230 units produced! Only Midway's (Bally in disguise) The Addams Family ever sold more, but only just with 20,270.

1976-10 Fireball
1976-12 Freedom
1977-?? Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
1977-02 Night Rider
1977-04 Black Jack
1977-06 Evel Knievel
1977-09 Eight Ball
1978-01 Evel Knievel
1978-01 Power Play
1978-04 Mata Hari
1978-06 Strikes and Spares
1978-08 Lost World
1978-10 The Six Million Dollar Man
1978-12 Playboy
1979-02 Voltan Escapes Cosmic Doom
1979-03 Future Spa*
1979-04 Star Trek
1979-06 Paragon*
1979-06 Kiss
1979-09 Harlem Globetrotters On Tour
1979-10 Supersonic
1979-11 Dolly Parton
1980-01 Nitro Ground Shaker
1980-02 Silverball Mania
1980-04 Space Invaders*
1980-05 Rolling Stones
1980-06 Hotdoggin'*
1980-06 Mystic
1980-07 Viking
1980-09 Skateball
1980-11 Frontier
1980-11 Xenon
1981-02 Flash Gordon
1981-04 Eight Ball Deluxe
1981-06 Fireball II
1981-06 Embryon*
1981-08 Fathom
1981-09 Medusa
1981-10 Centaur
1981-12 Elektra
1982-02 Vector
1982-05 Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball
1982-08 Speakeasy
1982-08 Speakeasy 4
1982-08 Spectrum
1982-10 Baby Pac-Man
1982-11 BMX
1982-12 Eight Ball Deluxe Limited Edition
1983-?? Grand Slam
1983-06 Centaur II
1983-10 Gold Ball
1983-12 Grand Slam

* Bally's enormous SUPERSIZE 26.75" widebody games
Games I own :)
 
This is available again, still only £125.

Please let me know if you are interested.

Andy
 
In the picture of the Pcb's, I wondered at first what had happened to the lamp driver. That combined solenoid/lamp driver looks quite similar to the one used in Baby Pac-Man, except for the 185v reg. section.


picture originally posted by 'Nedreud'
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Plus further evidence of cost-saving; 6 digit displays and the basic non-speech audio board.
 
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Yes, @Jay Walker, it's a combination Lamp Driver / Solenoid Driver board number AS-2518-147 that was only used in Gold Ball and Grand Slam. Baby Pac-Man had something similar, part number AS-2518-107, but without an HV section.

@andy - my shame is great... :oops: but I'm still desperately trying to pull it together ASAP for this. Negotiations are happening at the highest levels behind closed doors! If someone else steps up and hands you the cash first then so be it, but if I do work it out within the next 24/48 hours I'll wire you the money in full (PayPal or Bank Transfer) to confirm my commitment. Again, my sincerest apologies. This isn't the first time this has happened (my tale of woe regarding Vector is lurking around here somewhere) and I'm appalled to have blackened my reputation further :(
 
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