I have a great, unusual game up for trade. I've had this for about 10 years. When I bought it there had been MPU damage due to leaky batteries - @Dave2084 helped to clean that up and bring it back to life. It kept running for a year or so, even featuring in one of the Christmas Cracker competition finals, but then stopped working. I had far too many projects and it got ignored for a long time. Last year, Keith Withnall came round and helped us get it going again. So it's currently working, although slightly erratically - the main problem being a mechanism for ball locking needing a good overhaul (it stacks balls up behind a cross-shaped piece which rotates 90 degrees at a time to let each ball out).
It has some really cool features - a wrap around "toilet bowl" shaped section at the back, which makes for lots of skateboard-style shots around the curved ramp. A motorised skill shot mechanism which varies the angle the ball will enter the playfield, so you have to time it right. The aforementioned ball stacking multiball feature (the balls line up in one of the crossed over ramps). Plus, of course, the fact that the whole playfield is sat on springs inside of an arcade-style cabinet. It's very cool. I'm almost talking myself out of offering it up for trade, in fact!
I don't have the long term enthusiasm for keeping things that need much maintenance, I don't ever seem to find the time to fix things myself and I don't like to call in favours as often as things go wrong. So I'm wondering if someone would like to swap something for this? Something a bit more "run of the mill", so that I can get entire spare/replacement parts rather than have to get my hands dirty fixing old boards.
I don't have anything specific in mind, I'm open to offers. It doesn't even have to be pinball, I might go for a fun video arcade game (I like driving and shooting games best) or (very long shot, I know) I could do with a cherry picker. I don't mind a bit of cash in one direction or the other either, but not very much.
Here are some old photos from when I first bought it. It doesn't look any different now. I can get some more recent ones and some video of it in use, if there's any interest.
It has some really cool features - a wrap around "toilet bowl" shaped section at the back, which makes for lots of skateboard-style shots around the curved ramp. A motorised skill shot mechanism which varies the angle the ball will enter the playfield, so you have to time it right. The aforementioned ball stacking multiball feature (the balls line up in one of the crossed over ramps). Plus, of course, the fact that the whole playfield is sat on springs inside of an arcade-style cabinet. It's very cool. I'm almost talking myself out of offering it up for trade, in fact!
I don't have the long term enthusiasm for keeping things that need much maintenance, I don't ever seem to find the time to fix things myself and I don't like to call in favours as often as things go wrong. So I'm wondering if someone would like to swap something for this? Something a bit more "run of the mill", so that I can get entire spare/replacement parts rather than have to get my hands dirty fixing old boards.
I don't have anything specific in mind, I'm open to offers. It doesn't even have to be pinball, I might go for a fun video arcade game (I like driving and shooting games best) or (very long shot, I know) I could do with a cherry picker. I don't mind a bit of cash in one direction or the other either, but not very much.
Here are some old photos from when I first bought it. It doesn't look any different now. I can get some more recent ones and some video of it in use, if there's any interest.
. So if you use a 'J' in your HS initials you'll be disappointed.
