More pins from the USA.

I really enjoyed fixing the Amazing Spider Man pinball machine I picked up. It was a nice chance to get to tinker on a project. The layout is really old looking and captures the comic styles of Ditko pretty well.  I think I will be keeping it for a while and slowly returning it to restored condition.

I caught the bug for pinballs though. And started looking to expand my collection. Shortly before the long weekend I found 2 machines for sale in the US. I called and set up times to go look at them.

I left Friday morning right after shift at 2am and drove to Portland. The first machine was a Data East 35th Anniversary Playboy. It was made in 1989.

The machine was in good shape but not running so I picked it up on the cheap. The board had fried but the previous owner had bought and installed a new board. I figured I could get it running. It took soldering in a new power supply pin and some work on the switches in the playfield.  But it works, and is hella - fun to play.

The second machine was a Williams F14 Tomcat. Super fast game - #94 on the top 100 pinballs made listings. The guy selling it owned a company that supplied pins to bars. He seemed like a good guy and I paid an ok price for the game, figuring I could sell it later if I didn't like it. It was missing the red white and blue lights on the top but had LEDs in the play field. Super bright. It plays 100%