Sold Twilight Zone

[DRD]

£5,900 or best offer.


Used annually in the Midlands League since 2015. Was a Pinball Paradise (Hampshire) refurb - and they were the best. Everything works as it should. I believe this to be a clean, low-mileage example - look at the ball eject photo.

All proper Bally/ Williams boards in the backbox (no rubbish repros). Upgraded clock board as the originals were unreliable. No nasty, damaging or irreversible modifications. Modifications are - LEDs, blue clock surround, new clock decal, new clock gears, magnet on diverter, marbles in gumball, illuminated gumball. I replaced many parts like plungers, links, flipper mechs, solenoid sleeves .... to get it playing beautifully.

Playfield is superb, probably the best you will find.

Cabinet is exceptional BUT IS FADED - I have re-decalled other 90s pinball cabinets in the past but this had so little damage, scratches etc that I left this one original.

Dot matrix display is fully working.

No cracked ramps or plastics.

Translite has minor damage that is very hard to spot. I have held it up to the light and placed a post-it note with arrows showing where these minor grazes are.

Excellent one slot coin door with coin mech and relevant board.

The Addams Family next to it is NOT for sale.

You are welcome to test this thoroughly before buying and I can show you round the menus. Once it is folded up and moved there is no warranty on this game. Simply folding a pinball machine and driving it home can shake the myriad of connectors about.

No paypal. I am open to sensible offers - but no part exchanges.

Ground floor. Wide doorways. I have a sack barrow and a hydraulic truck so can help you move it.

 

[AndyB]

Played this a few times in the Midlands meets, and it plays beautifully.

 

[Jay Walker]

This may be one of the ones owned new by my old employer. I see what seems to be insulation tape around the knocker bracket, something I used to add on works' machines. And the bumper coils have the terminals furthest from the stop end, another of my preferences, along with total removal of the mechanical coin meter (the four holes next to the PP sticker). One of ours did have a very stout eye-bolt added on the front, to meet a slotted metal bar attached to the door, under the lock barrel. It would have gone to Bob after finishing its use on our locations.

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

TZ is Pat Lawlor's masterpiece. One of the greatest machines in pinball history imo - nothing quite like it, and nothing plays like it . They absolutely nailed the theme integration. It still has the power (see what I did there) to put a smile on my face after all these years. The sounds, the dots , the callouts are all brilliant. The upper playfield and the Powerball are the stuff of a madman's dream
There are so many little rules and strategies going on you can really lose yrself in it. Years ago I printed off the rule sheet and it was like 50 pages of A4 . And that sense of knowing all the little quirks and understanding it all is unsurpassed. Using the Spiral magnets .....oh just soooo good.

I know its a marmite pin for many but I truly feel sorry for folk who just don't get it.

If I wasn't happy enough with my old trusty players condition workhorse TZ I'd be all over this. No idea why David is selling this over TAF - now I love TAF, had one for 10 years but TZ is the superior game.

GLWS

 

[Jay Walker]

Sarge, the earliest one I played, in Deith's showroom, had a quirk when playing the Powerfield. Only winning by exiting from the top of the playfield had the flippers come back on - draining from the lower hole lost that ball. I wonder now if that was Lawlor's intention, rather than a software bug.

 

[Stags6969]

@Milko1234 Have a word with Mrs C. Has your name all over it!!

 

[Epotech]

Sarge, the earliest one I played, in Deith's showroom, had a quirk when playing the Powerfield. Only winning by exiting from the top of the playfield had the flippers come back on - draining from the lower hole lost that ball. I wonder now if that was Lawlor's intention, rather than a software bug.

More likely the opto wasn't working on the exit.

 

[myPinballs]

TZ is Pat Lawlor's masterpiece. One of the greatest machines in pinball history imo - nothing quite like it, and nothing plays like it . They absolutely nailed the theme integration. It still has the power (see what I did there) to put a smile on my face after all these years. The sounds, the dots , the callouts are all brilliant. The upper playfield and the Powerball are the stuff of a madman's dream
There are so many little rules and strategies going on you can really lose yrself in it. Years ago I printed off the rule sheet and it was like 50 pages of A4 . And that sense of knowing all the little quirks and understanding it all is unsurpassed. Using the Spiral magnets .....oh just soooo good.

I know its a marmite pin for many but I truly feel sorry for folk who just don't get it.

If I wasn't happy enough with my old trusty players condition workhorse TZ I'd be all over this. No idea why David is selling this over TAF - now I love TAF, had one for 10 years but TZ is the superior game.

GLWS

Couldn't agree more. spot on summary. sell tz and keep addams??? 'there's madness in town square...'

and i'm also tempted by this, even though i don't have space, as its an ex Bob Thompson machine and looks like a nice original.

 

[DRD]

Pinball is not rational and objective it's emotional, it's love.

TAF was my first love. I knew plenty of other machines - Gorgar and Medusa onwards. Had a lot of fun in particular with an Earthshaker in 1990. But TAF was a game I played every day in the wild for months in my student union bar. It arrived as BNIB. I set a 700m high score on three ball that stood for months until she was suddenly taken me. Nothing could touch TAF in those days, it was head and shoulders above absolutely everything. Competition was BoP, Hurricane, Bad Cats, TMNT, LW3, Rollergames, T2, FT, FH, POTO ......

When I had the money to buy a house in the late 1990s I bought a pool table and a TAF within a matter of weeks. Had her ever since. She has lived in Leeds, Manchester and Newark with me. She will be the last to go.

You never forget your first love.

 

[Marvello]

Had a lot of fun in particular with an Earthshaker in 1990

Is that a euphemism?

 

[Paul R Owen]

Pinball is not rational and objective it's emotional, it's love.

TAF was my first love. I knew plenty of other machines - Gorgar and Medusa onwards. Had a lot of fun in particular with an Earthshaker in 1990. But TAF was a game I played every day in the wild for months in my student union bar. It arrived as BNIB. I set a 700m high score on three ball that stood for months until she was suddenly taken me. Nothing could touch TAF in those days, it was head and shoulders above absolutely everything. Competition was BoP, Hurricane, Bad Cats, TMNT, LW3, Rollergames, T2, FT, FH, POTO ......

When I had the money to buy a house in the late 1990s I bought a pool table and a TAF within a matter of weeks. Had her ever since. She has lived in Leeds, Manchester and Newark with me. She will be the last to go.

You never forget your first love.

I preferred Hurricane

 

[myPinballs]

Pinball is not rational and objective it's emotional, it's love.

TAF was my first love. I knew plenty of other machines - Gorgar and Medusa onwards. Had a lot of fun in particular with an Earthshaker in 1990. But TAF was a game I played every day in the wild for months in my student union bar. It arrived as BNIB. I set a 700m high score on three ball that stood for months until she was suddenly taken me. Nothing could touch TAF in those days, it was head and shoulders above absolutely everything. Competition was BoP, Hurricane, Bad Cats, TMNT, LW3, Rollergames, T2, FT, FH, POTO ......

When I had the money to buy a house in the late 1990s I bought a pool table and a TAF within a matter of weeks. Had her ever since. She has lived in Leeds, Manchester and Newark with me. She will be the last to go.

You never forget your first love.

Similar stories, saw 100 nib addans being soak tested at an operator in Leeds

Where I was, t2, fish tales, whirlwind, getaway were the games around with Addams. It stuck around with later games to like Indy jones, twilight zone , sttng, shadow, whitewater, Dirty Harry , Jurassic park etc

Iirc my uni bars games were

Addams-> corvette -> flinstones

 

[cooldan]

i'd be buying this for sure if i hadn't bought the same game just last week from a forum member. Top game, one of the first i ever got to the wizard mode (Lost in The Zone in Aerlie Beach Queensland in 1995/6 .... it truly felt like Groundhog Day there as i was doing an AFF skydiving course nearby and kept having to wait for the weather so was stuck there for 3 weeks with nothing to do but play TZ every day and drink VB every night.)

a true classic. 31 years old and yet (checks notes)...... it commands position #1 on Pinpedia, #2 on IPDB, and #10 on Pinside (which is usually full of the newest games; only the true classics stay in the top 10 there, like Medieval Madness, Monster Bash, The Addams Family and Twilight Zone). Taking averages of all three sites, TZ is overall second favourite pinball machine ever (av 4.3), narrowly pipped by MM (av 3.7). Those numbers have probably changed since i wrote them down a few months ago, but not by much. a classic remains a classic. don't do it David.

 

[cooldan]

Similar stories, saw 100 nib addans being soak tested at an operator in Leeds

Where I was, t2, fish tales, whirlwind, getaway were the games around with Addams. It stuck around with later games to like Indy jones, twilight zone , sttng, shadow, whitewater, Dirty Harry , Jurassic park etc

Iirc my uni bars games were

Addams-> corvette -> flinstones

my Uni bar had STTNG, which ended up being my first pin

 

[myPinballs]

Top game, one of the first i ever got to the wizard mode (Lost in The Zone in Aerlie Beach Queensland in 1995/6

The moment you realise you are never going to be the best pinball player in the world.... We had a tz at home when we were teenagers.

My brother went twice round the door and lotz twice!!! on factory 3 ball...

God damn it...

 

[Tom Coulton]

£5,900 or best offer.


Used annually in the Midlands League since 2015. Was a Pinball Paradise (Hampshire) refurb - and they were the best. Everything works as it should. I believe this to be a clean, low-mileage example - look at the ball eject photo.

All proper Bally/ Williams boards in the backbox (no rubbish repros). Upgraded clock board as the originals were unreliable. No nasty, damaging or irreversible modifications. Modifications are - LEDs, blue clock surround, new clock decal, new clock gears, magnet on diverter, marbles in gumball, illuminated gumball. I replaced many parts like plungers, links, flipper mechs, solenoid sleeves .... to get it playing beautifully.

Playfield is superb, probably the best you will find.

Cabinet is exceptional BUT IS FADED - I have re-decalled other 90s pinball cabinets in the past but this had so little damage, scratches etc that I left this one original.

Dot matrix display is fully working.

No cracked ramps or plastics.

Translite has minor damage that is very hard to spot. I have held it up to the light and placed a post-it note with arrows showing where these minor grazes are.

Excellent one slot coin door with coin mech and relevant board.

The Addams Family next to it is NOT for sale.

You are welcome to test this thoroughly before buying and I can show you round the menus. Once it is folded up and moved there is no warranty on this game. Simply folding a pinball machine and driving it home can shake the myriad of connectors about.

No paypal. I am open to sensible offers - but no part exchanges.

Ground floor. Wide doorways. I have a sack barrow and a hydraulic truck so can help you move it.
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Is this still available ?

 

[DRD]

Yessir