Old school arcade and pinball games. Who’s got them?

[Doug Dawson]

Hey there IC Mag. A number of years ago while my wife was working evenings I got bored. I was looking for ways to occupy some time and came across an old Donkey Kong sit down table top arcade game. It was cheap and broken but I though it would make a cool looking coffee table for the cottage. As a person who works in IT and has run a bench repair I find there is not much I cannot fix my self so I opened that DK up to see what was going on. That sparked a new hobby for me. I found myself going down the old nostalgia trail and buying up broken arcade games. Learned how to wire them, change them, repair their monitors etc. Still have 13 of them kicking around and wondered who else has them stashed in their rec rooms? Bring on the pics, let’s see them old school games so many of us pumped countless quarters into.

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

Back in the mid 90's I had a 1979 Time Warp pinball machine and a Terminator 2 pinball machine.
The Time Warp cost me AU$400 with one jet bumper not working, spent AU$70 having the driver board repaired and played it for a few years, sold it for about AU$600.
I did an experiment and took the glass off and pinged targets etc until the score was up to 999990 which made the high score, then I did the same but got the score to 000000 and dropped the ball down the drain, well the machine had a fit at the new high score, it made a rising and falling tone a couple of times then a crash sound and fired all solenoids at once which blew all the fuses, I thought I had killed it but replaced all the fuses and it worked again, phew.

The T2 I sold at a loss of AU$1000.

Wish I still had them as the Time Warp would be worth AU$15,000 now and the T2 AU$25-30,000.

The Time Warp had straight flippers when I bought it but I was told it originally had banana flippers (curved) so I bought some banana flippers and installed them, it played much better, when I sold it I explained about that to the buyer and told them the straight flippers were next to the cash box if they wanted to change it back.

 

[buzzmobile]

I fed the ostriches many quarters.

Sometimes I had to hunt spies.

Nice collection @Doug Dawson

 

[goingrey]

I like them but don't have them. Sometimes I think having one would be cool, but would I really play it or would it just take a whole lot of space as some kind of decoration... probably the latter.