Eight Ball Deluxe and I had some great times together, but EBD's owner came and swept it away, and when the dust settled, Alien Poker was there!
And oh so dusty. This machine is in rough shape but plays pretty well.
The backglass looks roached but passable with the game off, but with any rear illumination the image is nigh impossible to see.
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| this is all impossible to see with any illumination up behind it. |
The big thing wrong with the gameplay is that the top hole does not kick the ball out. Did a quick test grounding it at the lug and it kicks just fine, but did not get any action on grounding the related transistor (Q43), so will probably have to check out the connector and wire. Will test it properly later.
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| since that hole's kicker doesn't work, I've been playing with the glass off to pop it out manually. |
Every time you hit your flippers the game would score. I traced this back to the spinner staying in the halfway position. Someone painted it at some point, and I think it's lost it's will to live --- I mean, ability to come back to rest properly.
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| SIT DOWN, CRAPPY SPINNER! (also notice how horrible the rubbers look) |
Drop Targets are bare, but decals are readily available.
The plastics are only broke in one spot, but are all rather warped. I will look to flatten them.
In the backbox, first thing I noticed was that most of the boards were not securely attached, a few just by a single screw! So off to get more screws...
But how does a game get to be like that? Did someone slowly harvest the other screws?
On the driver board the stack of resistors looks nice and crispy, with one resistor not even attached at one leg.
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| Toasty! |
the 2nd one from the bottom is the busted one. With the game in attract mode, touching it turns on a whole set of lights, including the P-O-K-E-R lights and the outlane specials.
Top rollover lanes have faded from red to light orange. One pop bumper skirt is chipped.
And yup, rubbers are all gone hard.
This is a fun game, and I am looking forward to getting it playing 100%! The owner has said I can keep it here until the winter, so I'll have plenty of time with it.
First thing I look at in a game? FUSES.
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| top row, 4th from the left? That was a 15A slow blow |
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| should have been: 0.25 A slow blow. HOLYCARP, thank goodness the displays didn't fry. |
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| filth and fun! |
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| fun and filth! |
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| totally need a realignment... |
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| skirt chip... |
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