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justincasekazoo
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Pinball, anyone?
1934 Gottlieb Flying Trapeze Pinball
Gameplay at 3:48, brief history and description before that.
Who doesn't love a bell?
Who doesn't love a bell?
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Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 6, It's Alive! The End?
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Using your own words, in 5000 words or less, describe this machine: Snake Eyes is finally presentable whaaat? It's playing as intended, bugs ironed out. If this is the first time you're seeing this machine, this is an entirely custom electro mechanical single player game. Built from spare parts over the course of a month or two. The rules, as explained in the video, are as follows- Win by high ...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 5, Wacky World of Wires
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Don't watch this unless you're building a pinball machine. You'll waste your time. This is a video. Various wavelengths of light will be emitted from your screen at a rapid speed to produce the illusion of movement. Various wavelengths of energy we call sound will travel from your sound-making device we call speakers to your sound-receiving devices we call ears. There is nothing to see here. St...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 4, Relay Replay
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After playing around with a live playfield, it's time to build the relays and draw the schematic. We have to decide how many relays we need, and what each one will be for. There will be a bank coil for each feature for example, one for each rollover button (7) and one for each red dead bumper (5). These will have to be separate trip banks, so that they can reset independently throughout the gam...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 3, Electro-Ball!
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Now all the goodies are pretty well positioned, we wire the sucka up for sound. Tap those bumpas and flippas into some powa. Bat the ball around, see what happens? Pretend to play a game or sixty five. I time each 5 ball game I pretend to play, and keep track in my head my progress in the game's sequence. Do I complete the sequence? Win a game, based on the rules I've imagined? I want the avera...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 2, Playfield Shenanigan
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Almost overnight, the parts appear. Who is that little goblin that comes in and puts things on the playfield while I'm sleeping? I dunno, but it looks good to me. This is one of the most exciting parts: the design becomes real. I start by plotting out every single element on the plywood, using a ruler and a rafter square. By hand? With a pencil? What is this, the Middle Ages? All the posts, fli...
Building an EM Pinball Machine From Scratch: Part 1
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And so it begins. The way ideas go, they can only live inside my head for so long. It was time for this one to be for real. This is my third homebrew pinball machine. Watch as I start from nothing and pull myself up by my bootstraps. Or don't watch. I think the machine will get built either way. But I hope this will be of interest to someone out there. My credentials? None. Resume? Everything I...
Gottlieb's Globe Trotter Pinball, 1951
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If you don't mind reverse flipper and like games of this era, do yourself a favor and try this one out next time you see it in your local drugstore.
PAMCO's Time Pinball Machine
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PAMCO produced Time in 1935. It features a clock face with a spinning arm to place well-aimed balls into progressive pockets. Straight from the Billboard advertisement, February 23, 1935: "TIME invites PRIMARY and SECONDARY systems of scoring... Here's a machine with DOUBLE APPEAL First, "Primary" Scoring with True SKILL the chief playing requisite. A ball driven into the cubical enclosure atop...
Pacific Amusement's Major League Pinball
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My apologies for the quietness in some of these videos. Play shown at 2:25. Major League was produced by the Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company (PAMCO) in 1934 as a follow up to their wildly popular game Contact. Contact was designed by a young Harry Williams, and Los Angeles-based PAMCO produced it under contract for the west coast markets. Contact was the first commercially successful pi...
Gottlieb's Classy Bowler Pinball
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Manufactured in 1956, Classy Bowler had a production run of 1100. Instructions at the beginning, and gameplay begins at 4:45. One of the best woodrails out there.
Gottlieb All Star Basketball Pinball
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A Wayne Neyens design from 1952. Production run of 1000. It's a simple game, and a pretty difficult one. I did surprisingly well in the demo here getting both rollovers in the first two balls was key.
Homebrew EM Pinball #2 -- "League Champion"
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Here's the whitewood of homebrew number two another woodrail style game. A gobble hole jackpot of up to 15 replays very exciting! Rules explained first, then see it in action at 7:45.
Gottlieb's 1957 Royal Flush Pinball
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Gottlieb's 1957 Royal Flush Pinball
Gottlieb's All Star Basketball Pinball
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Gottlieb's All Star Basketball Pinball
are the blue balls for double points
That's correct! Typically these games had one odd ball, but the scorecard tells that the "odd BALLS count double," which lead me to think there would have been two here originally.
@@justincasekazoo - I guess owners could choose to use the number of odd colored balls to affect the frequency of free games awarded
thanks for sharing, cool to see how the design parallels Merry-Go-Round
the odd color doubled the score it landed in
Fun ... one of my earliest memories when I was about 9 was coming across this one in a vintage drugstore, about 1966.... all I remembered were those three Xs right above the flippers, decades later, found on Internet pinball database of course.... (could have sworn this had slingshots....) Oh, it was also incredibly tired, possible had been sitting there in that drug store for a decade with no maintenance And....... If I may mention this, I agree with the other person , good bump skills, good flipper work, and with all respect to everybody that has posted UA-cam videos of great old games, it's really frustrating how so many of them must be the tech that shopped and restored them, who are simply not good players lol ( owned world fair, king of diamonds, snow queen, funland, long long time ago)
My parents had this same machine. My mom loved it! Currently looking to sell it in the Chicago area. It turns on and most lights work, but the machine needs to be repaired to be useable.
Is that a Time Warp or Phoenix I can hear in the background? David
oooooooo, actual bells in a pinball machine, as God intended. This is really awesome, I can't wait to see this when you finish it up. What's up with the buzzing though? Last time I heard a buzzing like that the match unit in my Super-flit was locking up due to the leaf switches in the advanced bonus solenoid sticking.
Haha, yes, real bells! Thanks for the kind words. There's a ball gate that stays open when the game is started until the first 10,000 is scored, and that buzzes pretty loudly.
that's fantastic
That's pretty dope! Good on ya!
Nice job! Looks like it's dangerously addictive. Bravo
Thanks! Every machine has been a learning experience. I really like the ruleset, but as it turns out, rollover buttons aren't as satisfying targets to hit as bumpers, or standup targets. This one is fun, but ultimately I think the machine I built before this one is more fun to play.
VERY cool, greetings From Germany
this is so cool! Normally I'm not a fan of gobble holes but it really works here. Good ruleset.
Hey, thanks! They were an acquired taste, that's for sure. And now with the mindset of a designer I see the value in "getting the ball off the playfield," as funny as that might sound. Shorten the game time and give the player something in return!
Great machine!
Where is this machine? I have one that i am repairing currently.
I love the way the balls glide around the outer track before going into play.
I want that.
Damn dog lol😂
Same beautiful sounds as other Gottliebs of the time. You have good bump skills.
The lower flipper area is the same as Central Park. Got to bump it a bit.
My first pinball purchase .....age 12 Saved returnable bottles until I had $15. This would have been 1961. The game was difficult but amazingly trouble free. Traded it for a Gottlieb wedge when I was 15. The beginning of my collection! Wow, thanks for the video.
Is it electrical mechanical? Absolutely beautiful table in such excellent condition!
Yes, it runs on 6 or 12 volts-- probably 6. It originally would have had batteries but it has long since been converted to a transformer. Someone had refinished the cabinet at some point, but the whole machine looks terrific. I was quite envious when I saw it!
I've got this machine in my basement right now. However, it's on an endless cycle of reset after you play just one ball. Any suggestions?
Does it begin to reset again as soon as 10,000 points are scored?
All self deprecating humor aside, I have really been enjoying this build. As I have your other builds as well. I'm trying my best right now to learn the schematics on a Williams 4-Star from 58', as someone in the past has really messed up the wiring. None of the playfield lights are lit and the starting sequence is, if i'm lucky, a quarter turn of the score motor, and then some coils lock on. Ha ha. Got so much work to do to track down all that is messed up. I would like to do what you are doing in building EM homebrews myself, but I can tell I have a long way to go to get there. Please, keep doing what your doing, more people are interested than you might expect.
Hey, thanks for the kind words. That's how I started! I learned how to repair the games first, and then it turns out the skillset is the same for building them. However, I didn't learn on machines that had been tampered with! That's a double whammy. Do you have someone to help you walk through the schematic? That's what I found to be the hardest part about learning this trade, understanding the diagrams. When you get to the point you're building homebrews, please share your work! I'm always very interested to see other EM creations.
I actually have an update, my basic self didn't notice that two fuses blew the first time I started the game, replaced those with the correct fuses and now the game mostly starts, I at least have lights, and playfield targets are working. Which is progress, ha ha. Since I live close to Elkhart, IN I could always ask John at Elkhart Pinball for some help, for the right price I'm sure he could help me out. I should post some of my pins here soon, recently I bought a Gottlieb Baffle Card from 1947 from John at Elkhart and I know there is no game play footage anywhere on UA-cam. I've also hand made a replica of Playboy by Gottlieb from 1932. I'm hoping to have the 4 star up and playing by May, and I might bring my two 1930's machines to Pinball at the Zoo this year. Can't wait to see this finished whitewood up and working. I only wish I could play it too, haha.
@@mechanicsnut9800 That's great! I love progress like that. Very little swearing required to replace a fuse. Yes, I'd be interested to see a Baffle Card in action, with an explanation of the rules. I've seen one in a parts pile, but never played one. Very cool that you built a Playboy. Is that fun? It's another I've never played.
Try angling the kickout holes so that they launch the ball back toward the flippers.
That would be a fun arrangement, too. After a little more adjustment, I think I have a good balance of back and forth. I like the volley action, so I wanted to keep that. But kickout holes that "pitch" the ball to the flipper are enjoyable, so not a bad idea at all.
thanks for sharing the process with us
Cool game!!!
Seems extremely boring.
exciting!
So glad to see you documenting this one bud!
Very modern looking playfield for it's time period.
Those who think woodrail pinball machines are slow and boring to play, should watch this video. It's on my wanted list now for sure!
epic game
One of my favourite woodrails of all time!
I agree! Definitely in the top 1%.
Ten thousand points. Very nice!
thanks, I really appreciate these videos
Interesting design. I would like to have something of this era someday.
Cool early EM-Pinball:) Looks like Fun to Play.👍👍
Please raise up the front legs, that game will play twice as good. Pinball is like fighter planes, speed is life. An amazing game, 1M target on an EM game!
thank you
Good idea for game.
awesome!
Actually a family member lol… Bill Gouzie
I have this 45! My father was friends with the father of one of the band members. I was really young (58 now). Always liked this track and ‘loving you’ on the other side too
I love this machine and the playfield design, but it IS tough ! That last kickout hole on the right likes to shoot it back right down the middle into the center drain. I'd see if there was a way to adjust it a little not to do that . This machine has a huge payoff when you get all the targets for SPECIALS , but it's not easy to get there. Very addicting machine.
I love this machine mee too and the playfield design it IS love ! Very addicting machine.
Awesome! Love these “simple” old timer machines 😉
awesome table!!
I played this as a teenager in New Jersey Found it and beat it again as a senior in Vegas!😅 ❤
Very cool machine, not many machines have a way to “win” anymore
Neat to see all kinds of pinball
Nice sounds (except the dog!)