Nice 👍🏻 thanks John .

While attending college, I repaired these "computerized" pinball machines. The company I contracted to for repair gave me an electro mechanical Elton John "Pinball Wizard" machine as a thank you gift, which I still have today and it is still running fine! Thanks for the memories! Greg

@Robothut

2 жыл бұрын

Good to here from you Greg. Hope the New year is treating you guys well.

@popzct

2 жыл бұрын

@@Robothut Hi John, My wife finally retired and we've been traveling. During our travels, I became ill but recovered rapidly and am fine. Thanks for your videos, I watch them in there entirety! Greg

Very creative. Late Late show music is a change from typical heavy metal guitar licks. What a complicated machine. Noticed black rubber bands on flippers. Never seen an index pin for save ball, indeed kid friendly, gives 'em a chance to improve their skills before throwing their hands up & quitting altogether. Nice.

@Robothut

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is a good first machine to learn on, or if you have had a few to many drinks and cannot win the normal machines this one is fun then as well.

You were so close to a free game! I was going to mention the match feature at the end most people forgot that You'd be waiting on a game & sometime the player matched or you matched & were psyched. JAR must be the WA pinball wizard !! 😁

@Robothut

2 жыл бұрын

Ozzy have you ever looked in to the new Virtual pinball machines. They are made in Florida, they hold over 1000 vintage and current pinball games. Here is a link to a video on a deluxe one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eI140bSwc7zPoNY.html You will see they are full size pinball machines that use HD screens and mechanical sound devices and motion sensors.

@OzziesRobots

2 жыл бұрын

@@Robothut I am considering those but the collector in me would just like the real deal

@Robothut

2 жыл бұрын

@@OzziesRobots You have to have both. I would not trade my vintage machine for the new version, but the new version has charm of its own as well.

Interesting.

I was surprised to see that your high score is nearly 9 billion. The numbers get so high they become meaningless after a while. I had always wondered about this machine, little more than a reprogrammed Pinbot. But I can see what you mean about placing it in casinos. The easy listening soundtrack would fit right in there.

@Robothut

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the score display getting higher and higher year after year never made sense to me. The old Egg Head had a possible high score of only 1999. Now that made sense but scores in the billions is crazy.