We found a 1978 SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN Bally Pinball Machine, Let's See What Kind of Shape It's In!

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  • Опубліковано 30 жов 2024

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  • @naytch2003
    @naytch2003 3 роки тому +5

    Awesome tv series!!!..specially the bionic sound effects haha

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Thanks Naytch, WhOOOO!

    • @naytch2003
      @naytch2003 3 роки тому +1

      @@LyonsArcade maybe they’ll make a pinball on ric flair one day lol..the styling,profiling limousine riding jet flying kiss stealing wheeling and dealing son of a gun..to be the man wooooo you gotta beat the man

  • @scottgm321
    @scottgm321 3 роки тому

    I was 8 years old in 78. My friends and I ran around making the weird sound that he made when he ran or jumped or listened intently 😎. Can’t wait to binge this series.

  • @jeffmitchell289
    @jeffmitchell289 2 роки тому

    Used to play this machine back in 79'-80' every weekend, basically the first real pinball machine I really got to play repeatedly and get pretty good at. Love seeing and hearing it again!

  • @guytownsend4160
    @guytownsend4160 3 роки тому +1

    This was a very popular game in our arcade. Good luck on the refit. Looking forward to the finished product.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Thanks Guy we appreciate you watching! It seems very fun...

  • @senilyDeluxe
    @senilyDeluxe 3 роки тому +13

    Can we make a shoutout to Matsushita for making a battery that didn't leak after 37 years?

  • @WreckDiver99
    @WreckDiver99 3 роки тому +4

    Played that game as a kid...it was a fun game. BTW: That looks like an innertube they used for a flipper band.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Yeah I was kind of thinking it was some sort of tube that had been cut, at least they put something on there instead of playing with the bare flippers :)

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 9 місяців тому

      ​@@LyonsArcadeFlippers without a rubber is unbearable. Always put rubbers on your flipper.

  • @a68k_de
    @a68k_de 3 роки тому +2

    that pinball looks really great for it's age.
    Someone really had an eye on it, sadly happens not so often...
    Should be a really easy task to compensate for the last pinball nightmare ;)

  • @melanatedprose9134
    @melanatedprose9134 3 роки тому +1

    It looks to be in really good shape. At least it's the best looking backglass, playfield and cabinet I've seen before repairs in your videos so far. I don't remember watching the show when it came out, just brief memory flashes of it as a tot.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Yeah this one is in really nice shape considering :) Wait till you see how it cleans up!

  • @stevepearson7745
    @stevepearson7745 3 роки тому +1

    Wow. Never knew they made a pinball for 6m man. Used to watch this show as a kid. Always wanted the action figure with the bionic eye. Y'all never disappoint.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Thanks Steve, we appreciate it!

  • @sixtoes2313
    @sixtoes2313 3 роки тому +1

    Col. Austin, We have this inner tube to replace your Gluteus Maximus bounce 🤪

  • @grlg2
    @grlg2 3 роки тому +3

    Hi Ron, little critters getting in where they shouldn't be. On another channel that I watch the guy had a problem with his Toyota Tundra where it was missing and running badly. A mouse got into where the timing belt is and went for a ride around the belt which made the left side cam slip 3 teeth. Luckily no valves were bent and the engine run fine again but what a ghastly mess left behind. Cheers

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      That makes sense, wow what a grisly way to go though! Poor mouse!

    • @cthlhu
      @cthlhu 3 роки тому +2

      LMAO @grlg2 another fellow Mustie1 fan!!!!!

    • @SimonQuigley
      @SimonQuigley 3 роки тому +1

      Haha, we need to find a 2 stroke pinball machine for Mustie to fix.

    • @cthlhu
      @cthlhu 3 роки тому

      @@SimonQuigley hahahah no doubt... just throw in a carburetor attach it to a coil and he can’t resist.

  • @wilholloway7876
    @wilholloway7876 3 роки тому

    Played one in real life, it was a great machine.

  • @jumpingjack2605
    @jumpingjack2605 3 роки тому

    Love this game, it had all the bells and whistles available of that era

  • @andymouse
    @andymouse 3 роки тому

    I used to run around the playground with all the other kids making the " Bionic Man " noises ..daa daa daa daa !...cheers.

  • @Tr0uBl3Sh00t3R
    @Tr0uBl3Sh00t3R 3 роки тому

    Awesome Machine! I remember playing on one of them

  • @RodsPinballVideos
    @RodsPinballVideos 3 роки тому +2

    I've seen the mismatched body and head a few times. You'd have to think it was the original operator who had a few of them and mixed them up in storage when they were pulled apart.

  • @-abacchus
    @-abacchus 3 роки тому +1

    Who'da thunk Bally would design near identical machines..?
    Unbelievably good condition of the playfield and RHS of the coffin!

  • @christopherrasmussen8718
    @christopherrasmussen8718 3 роки тому +1

    oh God I remember the show and this.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +1

      I need to watch it! Hope you're doing well, Chris!

  • @aussiecoastie72
    @aussiecoastie72 3 роки тому

    So cool !!

  • @djlamar2
    @djlamar2 3 роки тому

    I can't wait to see this being worked on. I may have not been around when "6 million dollar man" was on but I did see reruns :). Love that show. Also loved Knight Rider. Can't wait to see that one either. Also the lady was "Bionic Woman" she had her own show. She was basically the same way as him, but different incident where they had to rebuild her. According to google (I couldn't remember what happened tbh) she had a skydiving accident which left her in critical condition.

  • @williamsudbrink4187
    @williamsudbrink4187 3 роки тому +1

    Mad magazine did a great spoof of The Six Million Dollar Man TV show.

  • @dvv45
    @dvv45 3 роки тому +1

    Dosn't look like it needs much. Looks good!

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      It's in very good shape for it's age!

  • @TurnFullCircle
    @TurnFullCircle 3 роки тому

    wow....you have such a wonderful job!....I am these days sadly stuck behind a pc monitor...it pays the bills. But it does not satisfy the creative side of me. I have had many jobs over the years from farming to welding. I greatly miss being hands on fixing things. Watching your vids is so interesting, I have little skill in electronics but appreciate the skills involved. Cheers

  • @Jeroen_a
    @Jeroen_a 3 роки тому

    Nice! looking forward to the next one :-)

  • @Heathcliff_hensel
    @Heathcliff_hensel 3 роки тому +2

    This show is on Monday thru Friday on COZI tv. Bionic woman comes on before.

  • @NivagSwerdna
    @NivagSwerdna 3 роки тому

    "A pinball machine barely alive... we can rebuild it..." Nice

  • @brand-x7049
    @brand-x7049 3 роки тому +3

    23:20 cut rings out of a bicycle tire tube, i bet.

    • @patzik1910
      @patzik1910 3 роки тому

      Yep, was thinking the same thing!

  • @abdelhakim5558
    @abdelhakim5558 3 роки тому +1

    Happy New Year 2021

  • @TheGnomestead
    @TheGnomestead 3 роки тому

    Waiting on Night Rider but this makes up for the wait. Same game to funny.
    Never played it. At 7 yrs old when it came out I was not allowed in those arcade dens of iniquity and sin lol.
    The girl on the show spun off to do the bionic woman by that time I believe.
    I did have the action figure and it was my favorite. Bionic vision, roll up fake skin to see the bionics. Thanks for the memories 😉🙃👍👍👍

  • @jeffreymurdock8366
    @jeffreymurdock8366 3 роки тому +1

    Hey that board had a sticker with a date 6 months after I was born. I was a 4/20/78 baby. Lol

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +1

      haha, 4-20 every year!

    • @jeffreymurdock8366
      @jeffreymurdock8366 3 роки тому

      @@LyonsArcade i always joke about being born on 4/20 since I live in oakland. Lol

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 9 місяців тому

      I was born on the same day, but in 1974. As much as I hate to say it, no trip to Hawaii for my big day.

  • @darrenmcgeary
    @darrenmcgeary 3 роки тому +1

    When moving this machine, does the back come completely off or does it fold down on top of the playboard?

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      The head comes all the way off. There are bolts holding it on and a bunch of plugs can be removed for the wiring.

  • @victorsvarietychannel2459
    @victorsvarietychannel2459 3 роки тому +7

    "We have the technology"

  • @sircampbell1249
    @sircampbell1249 2 роки тому

    11:57 are tool marks that how the back glasses get jacked up..

  • @Mrpinbologist
    @Mrpinbologist 3 роки тому

    I've never seen a BAD 6m$m backglass.. as in paint flaking off. They are pretty much always in nice shape anytime i see one. I have one in my own collection and its glass is in pristine shape, have owned the game for 30 years.

  • @djmips
    @djmips 3 роки тому +1

    I'm just a humble country pinball fan trying to do the best I can watching along but it looks like the sound board had an 8-78 silk screened on it under the Bally logo. Could be a date code? Maybe something else.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +1

      I believe yes that is a date code for that revision of the sound board, we'll be looking at the sound board on a later video!

  • @scottmccann
    @scottmccann 3 роки тому

    Only game capable of a sextuple match... best we ever did was pentuple :-). Quite the arcade head turner to hear the knocker hit 5 times.

  • @mram6311
    @mram6311 3 роки тому +2

    Can you imagine the government doing anything for six million dollars today? That seemed like billions when the show came out.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Well today they purposefully do it for billions. All the politicians on both sides have to get as much of it in their pockets as they can, how else are they going to afford those big houses and all those bodyguards? Keep working, they really need it bad!

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 роки тому

      @@LyonsArcade when they had monte Makham as. Another bionic he was 8nmillion dollars..inflation

  • @hahahaha-dr2ge
    @hahahaha-dr2ge 3 роки тому

    Just picked up a William's aces n kings 1970 em plays great. play field looks new but back glass I need a reproduction paint is bad on backglass any ideas where I can get one?

  • @oakleyg97
    @oakleyg97 3 роки тому +1

    How much do think these are worth? I just picked up one this weekend. Works and great condition.

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      It's very subjective, they're worth whatever you can sell them for. In my shop, with a warranty, cleaned up, in a retail space it'd be $1899 or so in this condition. In your house maybe more or less, not sure, also depends on where you are, etc.

    • @oakleyg97
      @oakleyg97 3 роки тому

      I wish I could put a picture on here. It looks just the same...needs cleaned. I'm in Ohio.

  • @cthlhu
    @cthlhu 3 роки тому +4

    is that a cut up bicycle inner tube as a flipper rubber? this isn't 6Million Dollar Man this is straight up MacGyver!

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +3

      I believe it may be! There's three or four of them on each flipper. The guy was at least trying to get something rubber on there after the bands broke :)

    • @Mrpinbologist
      @Mrpinbologist 3 роки тому +4

      Definitely Inner tube!

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar 3 роки тому

    The machine came out four years after the show started. It must have been a fading property by then!

  • @6581punk
    @6581punk 3 роки тому +6

    "We can rebuild him."

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      I was resisting the urge to say that, LOL

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 роки тому

      @@LyonsArcade any bionic woman game?

  • @jeremyricheson6069
    @jeremyricheson6069 3 роки тому +2

    Long time viewer just wondering if u ever did a video on actually clearing a play field after u do touch ups getting ready to start working on my playfeild

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +1

      I never have because we just use spray paint and everybody says that's very wrong and we definitely shouldn't do it that way, lol so we just leave people to figure it out themselves, wouldn't want to give anybody wrong info!

  • @LuvADuc
    @LuvADuc 3 роки тому

    Fifty cent tip!

  • @bhuff123
    @bhuff123 3 роки тому +1

    For all you people who are worried about that battery batteries just don’t all the Sunburst it’s a slow process so leaving it in there for a few days won’t heard anything have a good day

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Thank you Clark Have a good day!

  • @chrisfreemesser5707
    @chrisfreemesser5707 3 роки тому

    This machine is in entirety too good of a shape to be a starting point. Please have the owner take it back and dirty it up a bit before the next installment 😉

  • @sng1977
    @sng1977 3 роки тому

    Steve austin back is back

  • @ocsrc
    @ocsrc 3 роки тому

    6 player.
    I have never seen a pinball machine with more than 4 players

  • @Even-Steven
    @Even-Steven 3 роки тому

    A MAN BARELY ALIVE
    TCH TCH TCH TCH TCH - FWOOM FWOOM FWOOM FWOOM
    Oh man, I had the 6 million dollar man doll when I was a kid, too. lol.

  • @mario1962
    @mario1962 3 роки тому +1

    staring Lee Majors & Fawcett

    • @naytch2003
      @naytch2003 3 роки тому +1

      And Lindsay Wagner as bionic woman

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      Farrah Fawcett is probably STILL hot, but don't think about it too much

  • @bobrobert319
    @bobrobert319 3 роки тому +3

    You have the technology...lol

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому

      LOL I think we do :)

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 роки тому

      @@LyonsArcadegot a blowout. Damper three!!!!!! The lifting body that crashed in. Intro. Was rebuilt used and hung in Smithsonian. Air space museum in DC

  • @jppagetoo
    @jppagetoo 3 роки тому

    Of course the designer was the same. It seems obvious that once you have a basic design, making variations on it would be economical and quick to churn out. So Bally made a lot of the same game with different themes. The 6 Million Dollar Man must have been a much more expensive game than Night Rider when it came out. It has quite a few more features and it is 6 player.

    • @Sunsetdrivein
      @Sunsetdrivein 3 роки тому

      I understand at that time period, it cost them an extra $50 per display to add the 5th and 6th players.

    • @jppagetoo
      @jppagetoo 3 роки тому

      @@Sunsetdrivein For sure. You have to realize those displays were new technology at the time. Very expensive.

  • @Mhicustomshuffleboards
    @Mhicustomshuffleboards 2 роки тому

    What color red is it

  • @michaelnippert945
    @michaelnippert945 3 роки тому +1

    Colonel Austin went to the Moon

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 роки тому

      And he did nook nook with the BIONIC WOMAN at RADIO SHACK

  • @AlexZander688
    @AlexZander688 3 роки тому +1

    Insert the tv show's slow motion sound effect every time you repair something.
    ua-cam.com/video/4OyIBuF73PQ/v-deo.html

  • @rsprockets7846
    @rsprockets7846 3 роки тому +1

    We can rebuild him......as Oscar Goldman sezs

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +1

      I never saw the t.v. show!

    • @rsprockets7846
      @rsprockets7846 3 роки тому

      @@LyonsArcade it's almost 50 yrs pilot was in April of 1972. As ABC. MOVIES OF THE WEEK

  • @BaquePhotography
    @BaquePhotography 3 роки тому +1

    Why is it all the pinball guys seems to hate repairing pinball machines. Id the pinball biz that soul sucking?

    • @LyonsArcade
      @LyonsArcade  3 роки тому +1

      No, it's the pinball community. It's full of elitist people who are obsessed with something as simple as bouncing a ball. At the same time that they're obsessed with something so simple, they insist that everything be perfect. They will bitch and complain about everything from 1 single lightbulb being burnt out, to the guy on the backglass doesn't look just like the guy in the show, to they don't like where the displays are in the backbox, to the flippers are too weak, to the flippers are too strong, to they think that 1 switch out of about 50 isn't working 100% of the time, to the slope of the playfield is too tall, too short, to i'm using the wrong terms, to I didn't do that right, I'm not a good enough player, etc. it goes on and on. They will literally invent shit to complain about. They will complain that whatever game you're working on isn't as good as whatever game they imagine in their head is better.
      In the Arcade world, you seem to get people who just enjoy the game, but there is about 10% of the pinball community that are absolute assholes. That's what makes the job suck. The hardest part to explain about the entire experience is, at the end of the day we're talking about a really primitive thing here, hitting a ball with a stick. The dichotomy of the simplicity of the game, and the complexity of these people's complaints and arrogance is pretty amazing. So it's "ooh ooh me want hit ball" and at the same time, from the same people, complaints about the smallest little picayune thing that doesn't affect gameplay but they think ruins the game.