Pay attention troops ! Sgt GrizZ has signed up for another mission and this one is a humdinger ! :boxing:
For some weird reason I have had DE's Monday Night Football on my mind for a while now - I guess just because I had never played or even seen one anywhere, or knew anyone who had/has had one, which in 11 years of this madness seemed pretty odd. It gets mixed opinions at best, though those who like it say it is simple but a lot of fun especially as a multiplayer game - you get pinball points and football points in game . I also like the full on Americana razzmatazz football theme, complete with cheerleaders :eyebrows:
So when this one popped up for sale I decided to throw all caution to the wind and grab it - I may regret that decision as you will see :eeek:
So here it is - I have only just reconnected the backbox, powered it up and done an initial assessment of the main issues.
Backglass ....I love .....mirrored glass, and its in pretty good shape with only a couple of minor scratches.
Playfield - full mylar has protected main area well, and mylar itself is ok. The unprotected playfield areas aren't too bad. Usual ball swirl, dirt etc. Overall the play area is the usual dirty, neglected example - needs full strip and clean, DE flipper bats installing ( has yellow Williams at present), rerubbered, metal parts polishing etc etc etc
My main concern was/is the raising playfield ramp flap area. This is very worn and battered. Also the 2 round red targets are not original - they should be large white rectanglar with decals on. The decal on the ramp entrance and the yellow raising goalpost are also battered. And its missing a plastic that sits above the targets. Apart from that ....that part of the game is brilliant
At least the ramp and goalposts do move up and down as they should.
Now I knew parts were gonna be tough to find for this game, low production run (1492) and not many this side of the pond. The ramp flap in particular ,as I imagine its battered on most machines. However I have found that Parts4Pinball have the ramp flap unit in stock, and that Marco carry a full set of decals for the game including the ramp flap one. So happy days ....at least for the game.... not my bank account.
Plastics - on the whole ok, missing the 'UP' one as I mentioned and also a thin one by the left spinner is missing, someone has used an inlane one from an X Files as a substitute (!)
For some weird reason I have had DE's Monday Night Football on my mind for a while now - I guess just because I had never played or even seen one anywhere, or knew anyone who had/has had one, which in 11 years of this madness seemed pretty odd. It gets mixed opinions at best, though those who like it say it is simple but a lot of fun especially as a multiplayer game - you get pinball points and football points in game . I also like the full on Americana razzmatazz football theme, complete with cheerleaders :eyebrows:
So when this one popped up for sale I decided to throw all caution to the wind and grab it - I may regret that decision as you will see :eeek:
So here it is - I have only just reconnected the backbox, powered it up and done an initial assessment of the main issues.
Backglass ....I love .....mirrored glass, and its in pretty good shape with only a couple of minor scratches.
Playfield - full mylar has protected main area well, and mylar itself is ok. The unprotected playfield areas aren't too bad. Usual ball swirl, dirt etc. Overall the play area is the usual dirty, neglected example - needs full strip and clean, DE flipper bats installing ( has yellow Williams at present), rerubbered, metal parts polishing etc etc etc
My main concern was/is the raising playfield ramp flap area. This is very worn and battered. Also the 2 round red targets are not original - they should be large white rectanglar with decals on. The decal on the ramp entrance and the yellow raising goalpost are also battered. And its missing a plastic that sits above the targets. Apart from that ....that part of the game is brilliant
At least the ramp and goalposts do move up and down as they should.Now I knew parts were gonna be tough to find for this game, low production run (1492) and not many this side of the pond. The ramp flap in particular ,as I imagine its battered on most machines. However I have found that Parts4Pinball have the ramp flap unit in stock, and that Marco carry a full set of decals for the game including the ramp flap one. So happy days ....at least for the game.... not my bank account.
Plastics - on the whole ok, missing the 'UP' one as I mentioned and also a thin one by the left spinner is missing, someone has used an inlane one from an X Files as a substitute (!)
Answers on a postcard to Grizz HQ please
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Losing the will to live now 
) has soldered on a 1N5404 in an attempt to make this work. Problem is this coil has 2nd winding, the thin one for the 'hold' also. Now I'm not sure how that would all play out but I'm pretty sure its gonna cause issues. So ....seeing that I can't get the proper coils quickly, only place that has them is Parts4 Pinball in Norway, I decided to experiment to get these to work. I figured if I just take the 'hold' winding out of the equation, this will basically be a similar setup to the correct coils.
