This is a video of a repaired and partially restored Joker Poker. Newly rebuilt MPU and driver board. As well as lots of fixes under the playfield including wiring and rebuilding of flipper assemblies. Replaced plastics with decent used ones as well as the pop bumper caps. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMpPxlJznA
Beautiful iconic 2 player game from Gottlieb circa 1976. This game was quickly brought to market and is essentially a Gottlieb Pioneer but with an add-a-ball twist. They only made 300 of this title to commemorate Pinball coming back into New York after many decades of being banned as gambling devices. It has the typical 9 credit credit wheel in the backglass but they put a star'd sticker on a white plastic boot to cover it to get around the "no replay" law. The great thing is you can win credits and/or extra balls with this title. Just no adding stacking them up like your typical add-a-ball. This title you can only earn one extra ball per ball. Unique double double center hole which if on the last ball AND you get all the drop targets down AND you hit a lit star rollover AND if it lights the center hole for double bonus THEN you get 4 times bonus score from that center hole. Build up your bonus on that ball and try and do it again. VERY TOUGH to accomplish but so rewarding when you do! We put over 60 hrs of restoration work into this game: rebuilt all the pop bumpers with new mechs and new skirts,bodies,caps and likewise with the flipper assemblies. All metal buffed to a mirror shine even the internal chime bars! Oh yeah and we of course rebuilt the chime box so that it gives our trademark "pleasing melodic after ring". We installed a new plastic set as well as all new white posts, new tempered glass, premium Titan silicone rubber. Rebuilt all the steppers and cleaned and adjusted all the numerous switch stacks for years of fun and reliability. For more details visit: pinballdoctor.com or email: dave@pinballdoctor.com
And to hear more about Classic Pinball, head over to our pinball podcast here: https://podbay.fm/p/the-classic-pinball-podcast
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NECPL Winter 2014 Finals at held on March 14th 2014 at Dr. Dave's home arcade. Allan and Bob battle it out for 2nd place. Some world class play on display as Allan put's up a house high of 200K+ to move into 2nd place. www.pinballdoctor.com
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My basement arcade walk through with time period music accompanying it.
And now on Channel 5 WCVB TV CHRONICLE:
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Now available in time for Christmas! Bally's 1997 Cirqus Voltaire HUO condition fully gone through and refurbed complete with upgrades like TITAN Premium Rubber, Color LED display, and a real metal bell for the *BOOM* balloon ball to hit! Over 40 hours of restoration work into this one to make it showroom new again. A real gem to play or just to just gaze at! =)
E-mail us for details on how you can own this or a number of games available in our restoration queue: dave@pinballdoctor.com
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Coming soon on our podcast: https://podbay.fm/p/the-classic-pinball-podcast
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NOW FOR SALE! Clean original board set with updated ground mods done, tight connections. Mechs rebuilt for fast and snappy game play. UPGRADED TO CHIME BOX! Much better sound than original cheap 1st generation sound card these systems came with. New rubber and bulbs. Clean inside and out. Very reliable and fun to play. FOR SALE: $1000
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Home Use Only 1981 Stern IRON MAIDEN optimized by Dr. Dave's Pinball Restorations. ** FOR SALE $5,500 ** RARE as only 400 were made and most exported to Germany.
This is out of my personal collection and now it is up for sale. Backglass 10, playfield 10, cabinet 10, electronics 10. Looks plays and sounds like brand new.
See my other youtube video showing the extremely nice condition outer skins of the game.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8_ARhK127Y
Special thanks to WCVB TV Channel 5 for the opportunity to showcase my pinball restoration business.
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Additional thanks to Fun and Games Framingham for the inspiration all those years ago that made me pursue my passion to make these wonderful pinball machines look and play like new!
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What the sounds and lineup looked like back then:
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Over 80 hours of restoration work went into this classic Gottlieb from 1971.
The add-a-ball version was called Astro and had the same layout but different artwork. New coin door and coin door hardware, new legs and leg hard ware, upgreaded flipper buttong to more fingernail friendly versions as well as all metal including the side rails buffed to a mirror shine. New slicone white rubber all around, rebult pop bumper and flipper assemblies and installed orange dot flipper coils for the extra 10% punch this game needs to get that ball back to the top of the playfield. All original cabinet artwork with original patina still intact. Gorgeous original backglass you just don't find with this title. All around the best playing and you would ever hope to find and play is what we acomplished here with this beauty!
www.pinballdoctor.com
dave@pinballdoctor.com
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