Congratulations! This makes me very nostalgic. I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and here we had a great amusement park (Italpark) that unfortunately closed its doors in the '90s. And one of its attractions was a large Bonanza shooting gallery. Unfortunately there aren't many images of that, and your shooting gallery transported me to those times... And another thing: wonderful pinballs! F-14 is one of my favorites, and Secret Service is one of the few Data East I like. Greetings from Argentina!

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Lucky

I noticed you mentioned a FB page for Bonanza Shooting Gallerys, but I couldn't find the FB page. Is it still there? I've been a fan of these since I was a kid in the 70s. Lincoln Park in Dartmouth MA that I visited often had a nice one. Old Orchard Beach ended up with it, but it didn't seem the same. A few years back it was cut to a tiny piece of it. I went to Hampton Beach today, and was shocked to discover the one they had was gone! It's the best one I've seen anywhere and I get around. Plus they maintained it much better than everywhere else. Where are you located? You have one at your home? Awesome. I have some classic arcade machines, but nothing like a Bonanza. Here in RI the only ones left I''m aware of are: Weirs Beach "Dodge Town" (poorly maintained), Canobie Lake park (is the Bonanza still there?), Old Orchard Beach (about 1/10th of a Bonanza), Rye Playland, NY as of 2014 (decent Bonanza, but not well maintained)

@emolatur

6 жыл бұрын

I work for Palace Playland, in Old Orchard Beach, where the Bonanza you speak of several times resides. The company that made these things either no longer exists or no longer supports them, meaning any and all repairs need to be done in-house -- down to replacing individual ICs, transistors, capacitors, etc. The circuitry is ridiculously sensitive to interference of any kind, to the point where ours has its own subpanel, isolation transformer, and line conditioner. The error/attention lights on top of our change machines set off some of the targets. We just upgraded to electronic coin mechs to combat some of the triggering/reliability issues there -- that was an entertaining exercise in electronics reverse-engineering since the coin cointer input is apparently NC rather than NO and the low side can't be commoned with the other guns. Surprise, trial, error, more trial... In any case of part of its downsizing was due to failed components. Several years before I got there, they assessed what still worked and what was available for parts and tried to put together the best they could. We're still maintaining it, the lead tech and I, keeping it going. I noted a couple of units out back last week with engraved plates on them announcing "Custom made for Joel Golder," Joel being one of the owners of our park...

@peyton7904

5 жыл бұрын

Classic Arcade Videos I grew up playing the one at Hampton and I was horrified when I saw pictures of them tearing it down, I found that there is a bar at Hampton that actually took one of the piano guys and I went in to see him and it’s pretty cool, a sad price of Hampton history is gone :(

How did you get the hotel sign?

@jacob-alexandreblum4982

7 жыл бұрын

The hotel sign, the piano player, the bird, the skulls, rocks, everything was there. I took the entire setting. One of the greatest day of my life ! There was only 3 rifles left but I have enought counters and coins mechanism to add at least 6 more rifles.

@krystalharwood5240

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacob-alexandreblum4982 bet u had to beg the park manager lol you cant just borrow their targets like that

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