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What's up with all the Bad Cats pins?
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I wonder if Bad Cats would be a good candidate for a re-theme? You could change the sound and art but are there any Bad Cats specific things shown on the alpha numeric display? Can what's shown on the display be changed on these games with a ROM hack or something, Jim @myPinballs what's do you reckon?
 
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I wonder if Bad Cats would be a good candidate for a re-theme? You could change the sound and art but are there any Bad Cats specific things shown on the alpha numeric display? Can what's shown on the display be changed on these games with a ROM hack or something, Jim @myPinballs what's do you reckon?
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Yes i believe you can amend the display text with rom hacking directly, as long as you keep to the same number of characters. I did this previously for the goonies pinball which was a re-themed hollywood heat game. Let me know if you need any help creating some custom roms to try.

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St25th was one of those games that came up all the time in job lots from operators in a bad state and weren't very popular so got stuck in the corner. Along with star wars trilogies and Simpsons . long term it must be a no brianer that themed games even if not the best to play will find a market with non pinball fans.
 
intresting lockbar on the coin door as well,might be worth taking to the scrapyard:rofl:
 
Motordome is a terrible game. Bally looked at high speed and told their top men to beat that and they failed at every level. The chip board cabs and iffy 6803 board system doesn't help. Though not very good I ueed to hunt them down in the early 90s as a company in Leeds called dial a deal imported containers of Williams and data east games from the USA but had UK customers loyal to bally who wanted later bally games . I swapped one motordome for an f14 another for a pinbot , a hardbody for a de time machine and in 1991 a beat the clock for a 3 year old banzai run.
 
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Harsh :eek: Can't be that bad. Can it?
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I had a Motordome years ago, I remember gameplay being so-so, the one shot upper ramp was a bit of a gimmick and the sound effects were very poor - a disappointing game.

This one looks to have several issues, not least of which is the damp affected backglass!
 
Add me to the ex motordome owners club.

Crap game but if it was cheap enough, I'd have another.
 
I notice the 2" flipper on that Motordome has what looks like a red 1" rubber ring. I didn't think these were available any more.
 
It's got 1 opening bid of £99. I'd pay that for it if I had the space! But I don't... :(

"Solenoids not working" - could just be a fuse... :p
 
Just had a look on IPDB and there are some decent hi-res photos. I think this game looks pretty cool. I am such a sucker for the naffness that was the 80s!

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Inside the backbox looks interesting. I see we have the cheap mains lightbulb for the backglass. And it looks as though everything, transformer, fuses, regulators, sound and MPU, are all back in the backbox (my PARAGON is like this):

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Is the remote battery box an add-on? I don't see a space for it on the MPU or did it have a soldered NiCd originally?
 
I've got a bally factory 6803 test rig so no problem testing parts. Repro displays are available. Have a couple 100% ones if people get stuck for one. Naffness definitely fits these 6803 games. Perhaps my heavy metal is naffist of all. Dungeons and dragons maybe deserves a prize for pin with most style over substance but hopefully went l get mine going folks will be able to decide for themselves
 
I think they're pretty cool too. Obviously put a lot of thought and effort into them. We're 99.9% pinheads with real pinball machines on here so if any of us had £600 to hand we'd probably be buying another real pin. Not quite sure where the market is though, because £599 is a lot of money to spend on a whimsical novelty and if you were really into pinball you'd either get a real pin or big virtual pin unless you really were short of space. Similar money would buy and awesome barcade that would also run a bunch of retro video games as well as virtual pinball. Maybe they're all destined for the coffee tables of high-flying City-boys...
 
To be fair, when people pay 3k plus for a 2nd had Stern and 6k+ for a NIB, 3.5K for a decent TAF (the most popular game of all time) seems reasonable.
 
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To be fair, when people pay 3k plus for a 2nd had Stern and 6k+ for a NIB, 3.5K for a decent TAF (the most popular game of all time) seems reasonable.
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Regardless of worth, point I was trying to make was that when you get a 'rogue' high auction result, you invariably get a few listings that appear to use that as benchmark price. Can't blame em for trying I suppose.
 
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Inevitable on eBay really. First thing I do when selling something on eBay is do a search for similar/same items that sold then use that as a guide to make my pitch. I usually sell everything Buy It Now at around the average price.

For example, I just sold a NOS Honeywell thermostat for £15 inc P&P because one sold in the last month for £14.99 plus about three quid postage. It was bought within 24 hours of listing.
 
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