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Found it! Dot Matrix Pinball Machine

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banky

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Hi,

I am after my first pinball machine. After stumbling into a video game arcade bar in downtown Denver 3 years ago I got hooked on pinball. After returning to the UK I bought and then ultimately stripped and rebuilt a virtual pinball machine, but as we all know its not quite the same as the real thing.

Flip Out in Croydon is now too far away for me to get my Pinball fix but thankfully the Pinball Office has opened up nearby. Nevertheless, I feel the time has come for me to start building a collection at home with one, possibly two machines to begin with. If its the latter I might need to buy a blanket as well to hide the second one from the Mrs!

Here is what I have played previously and am interested in obtaining (trying to cast the net pretty wide) if anything lines up let me know.

Budget is £2-4k per machine depending on condition. Based in Herts but happy to use Martin for delivery depending on availability if the machine is located further afield.

Bally WCS would be the Pinball I am most interested in acquiring.

Data East: Jurassic Park, Batman, Star Wars, WWF Royal Rumble, The Simpsons.

Bally: World Cup Soccer, Indy 500, NBA Fastbreak.

Williams: Terminator 2, Dirty Harry, The Getaway II High Speed.

Sega: South Park, Goldeneye, Batman Forever, Space Jam

Stern: Batman TDK, Family Guy, Indiana Jones, Spiderman, LOTR, The Simpsons Pinball Party (TSPP).

Gottlieb: Wipeout

Thanks for reading.
 
banky said:
Bally WCS would be the Pinball I am most interested in acquiring.
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Good choice, WCS was the first machine I bought and is still my favourite. It's always the most popular when we have people round - youngsters love it because they get the GOAAALLL reward pretty easily, but there is also plenty to do when you get better at it.

Hope you find one.
 
I have an Indy 500 - bought it from a collector (can't remember exactly but has a computer shop in the NW) and it went into storage immediately thereafter my garage - that must have been about 4-5 years ago.

took it into the workshop at work with the other new pins, and set it up - bit of batt corrosion but it had a separate battery carrier fitted so no PCB issues - there is an audio filter fitted in the cab to tweak bass and treble (some sort of aftermod) with some wiring which we will replace and put connectors etc on, and wrap it into the harness to tidy it up. LED conversion, mirror blades - playfield almost immaculate and there's fading to the side art as usual. Will get some pics taken next week. There's a bit of surface corrosion on the tall hex support pillars but we can sort that out, or if the buyer wants to, I will knock £100 off as it would cost me that for a day's labour - aside from the issues mentioned it works perfectly - just goes to show how resilient pins were from that era

this one is mine so not subject to VAT also

I do have a Rollercoaster Tycoon also that is also in excellent condition and went into storage at the same time - not managed to get too deep into that one, but it has a not-booting problem - might be simple or worst case a whitestar replacement or repair (if anyone has a good contact for repairs then let me know) but that will be going on the market too when it is done, or I may sell as-is but only to a collector.

Will get some pics sorted for both
 
i500 a truly awesome game and code wise quite the curveball. I sold a beaut just before lockdown 1 with topper, full LED and Full Flo plastic set just over 2k. In hindsight several pins that went around that time I should have just tombstoned and reaped the rewards in 2023 as the world gone mad :cuckoo:
 
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