Unboxing brand new 25 year old Jurassic Park pinball machine
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Here is a detailed unboxing of a brand new Data East Jurassic Park pinball machine stored away since 1993!!
Link to the history of this machine!
pinside.com/pi...
Given that this machine was so immaculately preserved in that box for 25 years, would it not be possible to extract its DNA and make perfect clones?
If only
Theoretically.
Lol
Life finds a way ...
It's not anymore🤣
Am i the only one who feels like 1993 was 10 years ago?
Shut up,you make us all look old. 😁👍🏻
1993 was only a few years ago, not 10 you fuckin' moron.
It's not 1993 anymore??? :-/
Doesn't feel that fresh to me. Shit i was only 11 lol. Feels like about 20ish. The real headtrip is when you try to wrap your head around things like Walking Dead being 9 f'ing years old already. Now that shit is alarming. For more than one reason
XD
Feels, man
high quality machine....the manufacturers spared no expense!
mr pink
Neither did the buyers
I see what you did there. 😉
😆👍🏻
What a machine, and what a story! 25 years in storage and works like a champ. This also shows that things used to built to last, nowadays things are built to be replaced...
Stick any new, unused pinball machine, boxed in a warehouse for 20+ years and it'll probably work. Might need a new CMOS battery or whatnot (just like this machine's batteries were replaced) but that's about it. Biggest risk is probably the capacitors popping.
@@drxym Nah, humidity, temperature, sunlight, radiant heat, amount of salt in the air and barometric pressure are all factors that can destroy that machine in less than a year. Very specific conditions are needed.
@@bigguy7353 I said in a warehouse. Not a hard thing to understand.
@@drxym Ahh yes. All warehouses are humidity controlled.
This assistant not allowed to touch anything on his own or even talk...
Haha. I thought the same thing.
Max Mustermann Yeah he was directed like a little kid.
well yea, this machine wasn't cheap and is 25 years old so he might not know where you need to be extra delicate.
I'm sure he'll get his own spin off movie eventually since you guys care about him so much :)
I noticed that too. Apparently the cameraman was also forbidden to make any kind of comment... strange.
Lol, you guys are reading too much into it. They probably discussed beforehand who would talk and who would do what.
Let me tell you what is funny. We are looking back at old tech and admiring it for how amazing and reliable products were made by our parents in stead of how low tech and horrible they were back then compared to now. The reality is, we have lost our touch for quality in the rat race for money
Man, i love that old Data East / SEGA vibe, especially in the sound design. It's so recognizable coming from any other DE cabinet of that time.
Brings me back to when I was a kid in the early 80s, when pinball machines were hot. Pinball machine designers sure had a cool job making these!
Yep. They still do!!
And pinballs hot af right now boiiiiiiiii
So glad that people are preserving pinball. Most I ever had for the tiny arcade back in the 90s was like 10 quarters. We used to just play the video cabinets because the pinball machines could devour those 10 quarters at any time.
This is a super late reply but there’s a beer place where you can pay like 10 buck near me that has maybe 30-40 pinball machines ranging in age from antique to new that you can play for that fee. And drink beer lol
I'm restoring an '84 pin and researched/understood a lot in a couple. I currently have the playfield stripped for repaint and already repaired the board with bad caps and broken traces. 18 years background in mechatronics repairing million dollar robotics, tried a year ago to help out a pinball location but they flat out said they didn't want their boards fried lol. Told them good luck in finding the retired guy from 1980s, cause there is no my pinball college anymore
@@metalhead691 is the place you're talking about by chance called Beercade? And is it in Nashville TN?
@@geektar420 negative. It’s called vertigo pinball in blue ridge Georgia
@@metalhead691 That's awesome man sounds fun the one I was talkin about has a bottom floor with a beer bar and a bunch of old arcade games that are free to play and then upstairs there was a whiskey bar with the NHL style foosball table donkey kong Mario and of course some pinball machines.
When this came out I was working at a big arcade in St. Louis called Exhilarama (Crestwood Mall). We had 4 or 5 of these JP pins new when they came out. Was great fun back in the day.
That’s awesome!
This is just so INCREDIBLE!! Works right out of the box 26 years later!
TNT Amusements Inc thanks Todd!!
What’s more INCREDIBLE is Todd’s good looks :)
@@ForkLiftCertified Take your meds, Scott! 😁😄
Did you pay 1993 prices!
But the included movie poster was ROLLED and not FOLDED...
Looks like the machine was encased in Amber!😀
I see what ya did there..
@@Ajaxaxxess hes giving a reference to the movie Assault on Precient 13.
fringe ?
I've seen a movie called "Encased in Amber 3" but it did not have any dinosaurs in it. There was a mammoth or two to be seen though.
@@stefanavic6630 Moskitos in amber give somme ADN to make the dinos in Jurasic Arks movie ...
The music from that machine is awesome
Yeah these are some good fuckin' chiptunes(or stuff that sounds similar)!
Being it sounds this good going through an open mic then I can imagine how robust it would be hearing it there in person!
Yeah, fuck yeah it is!
That's because it aren't no remix, to days music are all just remixes snipped up & regurgitated crap then they call it original lol
And they just keep on getting better and better holy shit :D
Every pinball enthusiasts dream what you guys have just done. WHAT a find and what a joy. You're unboxing rare history of finding something so old that's still NEW. I could feel how you felt and I'm sure everyone watching could also
If only i could find a working boxed & unopened Adams Family.. my life would be complete... so happy for you guys.. such a find...
I can’t even imagine what that would cost. $20k at least.
VPcabs Inc. i think for some, money would be secondary... in (scratches chin) 1992 era i was around 24...so finding a working ‘New’ boxed Adams Family is a hell of a lot cheaper... than a red convertible... and a heck of a lot easier to get the wife to agree to..
Slap some Addams Family decals on a JP, hey presto!! NIB TAF!!! Same play field, nearly.
That's the spirit thing..land a hand...My favourite all time pinball machine
Just download Pinball Arcade and you can play Addams Family (+79 more tables) til your heart's content.
The strings holding and connecting the batteries was under stress for the past 26 years and the still go "poing!", that is amazing!
Great job guys, you really made it feel like you were seeing and experiencing Tutankhamun's tomb opening for the first time, I was really on edge when you pulled the glass free and then letting that 25 year old air out, hope there's no curse!
I just had surgery and I have been couch bound watching youtube for a week. This is, by far, the coolest video I've seen yet. I was 5 when that machine was made, and I remember renting Jurassic Park. Thank you for recording this and posting it!
Also either your camera has amazing stabilization or your camera man has incredibly steady hands.
We have a gimble but it was acting up so that was actually my sons steady hand!
Love how they had the forethought to use "heavy duty" dry zinc carbon cells for the SRAM backup, they're probably still good too. If they were alkaline they would have spewed their guts all over that PCB a decade ago.
most machines used those back then for that exact reason..alkaline are to risky ..they pop way to easy.
I was way into pinball when I was a kid. Each summer my family would camp our way from California back east to visit relatives (1968-1972). Every campground that had a small concession/snack bar usually had a couple of pinball machines, so I would play them all the way across the U.S. and back each summer. Back then they were very basic. It was a dime for a single game and a quarter for three games. There was a mechanical plunger you pushed in to load the next ball and another spring loaded one you pulled to shoot the ball. Many hours of pure fun.
Amazing. This belongs in a museum or my house.
My grandfather bought me one of these at a yard sale brand new in box sometime in the early 2000's.. I still have it in the box and it's never been opened.
Thanks for reminding me of him and this machine.
ive only seen one in my life that was back when i was 8. Such a beautiful pinball machine. Nice to see one completely new and never have any issues.
When Jurassic Park came out, I was managing a movie theater. We had one of these machines. I spent so many hours playing it that I could put in two quarters and pretty much play for an hour.
When I see the Data East logo, the music from Side Pocket automatically starts to play in my mind.
Great times, great games.
You are not the only one, brother
These machine are one of the reasons I got interested in electronics at an early age, I wanted to be an Electronics Engineer; I'm in IT, never finished High School ;)
I guess people were hard of hearing in '93! What a treasure, great find!
not hard of hearing back in 93 the louder the better! Just like that song "Turn up the raido!"... i miss them days we are so lame now
Priceless.I love pinballs,you must be really happy in the middle of that collection.
Very! We are in the process of collecting 50
"A pinball machine that has been 25 years in the making." Bravo. This game is roughly "mid production" during the construction run of this title as identified by the S/N and date. Brings back memories of the two JPs I helped set up NIB in 1993 at State College, PA. "Ball search" problems are to be expected, if the game has not been burned in tested or on legs.
1993 State College PA- first year at PSU, spent many hours at the arcade…
Oh man my childhood just kicked in man I miss them days haha Jurassic park and terminator were my favourite ones
When the machine powered on I fell in love.
UA-cam should not allow this kind of awesome techornography. 40 min of pure love.
Thanks!!
What a privilege to unbox a 25 years old pinball machine, congrats!!
I grew up near a little corner store that always had one or two pinball games, i remember they did have this game. i spent many of quarters and time at that store with friends seeing who can get the highest scores and tournaments against eachother. Such good memories this brings back, i loved playing pinball machines.
Road Trip!!!!!! I will have to come up there and see that for myself. Time capsule from 1993. Amazing!
That's one cool machine in amazing shape. Fired right up out of the box like a champ.
The artwork on that is fantastic, but the real Jem is the electronics, what a work of art! There is one of these at a arcade/bowling alley in a town 75 miles from me I used to live in in the early eighties. I got a stack of quarters and spent a while playing it. Was a little rusty, but I got several thousand points, a bunch of credits, and #4 in the initial ranking. Was a lot of fun
Almost teared up a couple times at viewing this. It's one of those things in life that is REAL magic. Incredible!
I was salivating watching that. JP is one of my favorite machines of that era. And one of the ones that I was best at. Sure brought back some memories of me in my job at a movie theater (while Jurassic Park was playing) and that pinball was in the lobby. There were a few times that I came close to being late to clock in because I was tearing it up on that machine. Usually with a few kids watching who I would eventually turn my game and won credits over to when I had to give it up. Good times. Very nice find and I'm frankly envious.
Let me guess the absolute favorite had to be Terminator 2 am I right?
This was the best pinball machine I've ever played. I remember when I was younger doing 10 miles just to play it, it was so entertaining... When that place closed I was so sad. Nowadays I can't play these machines in my country, they just don't exist almost anywhere. Thanks for the share, one of these days I'll get one for sure... When I have the money.
This is one of the coolest unboxings I have ever seen!
I could hear "The TRex is Lose" in my head as you revealed the lower section. I can't even imagine the number of quarters I dropped in one of those. Man I miss pinball
The 4 corner cardboard boxes you removed at the start, use them to slide it out of the main box =)
We used to inport them (Bally/williams) then Data East into New Zealand in the 90's
Did they create 230-240V versions of the machines or did you have to use transformers?
So glad I got to live the arcade era. This video felt warm inside of me.
I dont know jack about pinball machines, but when I see a heatsink that old I desperately want to reapply thermal paste.
the old school thermal past was WAY better then the junk they use now days .. it will last an other 50 years
Wow this is amazing to see a JP pinball machine that was never used until this year. I am a huge Jurassic Park fan and love the first three films as well as JW. The first movie will always be special to me and its my favorite in the franchise
Somewhere for a brief period in the 90's a box factory was making small boxes that said "gun inside"
Orange Harrison my guess is that it was stamped onto the box during packaging, not manufacturing
I was born in 98, so this thing was built a couple of years before I was born but I remember playing on a similar machine in the early 2000's at a local pizza place and I would play the hell out of it!!! It looked the exact same as this one but the only difference I could spot was that the the t-rex on the machine that I played on was painted a dark green. Other than that, watching this video brought back a lot of memories!
So very cool! F-14 Tomcat will always be my favorite pinball game and the one to begin my love for these machines.
Hey guys !!!! you are amazing, please don't stop keep playing and teaching us... i mean pinball lovers all you want. Keep playing please!!!!!
I remember dumping so much money into one of these, at Alladin's Castle in Valdosta, GA. Also helped the owner rewire the harness for the Gun cause it had developed a short.
Brought back some great memories.
First movie I ever saw was Jurassic park, was seven. My grandparents took me and pissed my mom off. Wasn’t”t even heavy enough to hold down the theatre seat. Was epic.
One of my all-time favorites for playability. Cool beans.
Never been a huge fan of pinball but I remember playing this when I was a kid because JP was my favorite movie. So nostalgic!
I worked for Data East on that game and every game after that, then they became Sega and left before they became Stern.
Got any crazy stories for us?
Wow!
Seeing it working took me right back to 1993, I was running a small computer games shop called "The Games Room 2" in Sutton south London, just over the road was a lazer tag arena called "The Mega Zone" and they had this Jurassic Park pinball game in the arcade in the lobby, and I used to play it regularly, happy memories :)
Amazing stuff. Pinball machines are such an underappreciated piece of tech these days.
The main problems are sourcing parts and finding someone in your area who has the knowledge to repair it. Unless you learn to do everything by yourself should something go wrong, it can be very time-consuming and expensive to get the cabinet back up and running.
Ah man, that back panels inside looks so cool, real craftmanship.
It's always interesting to discover forgotten stuff that sat in a corner somewhere for decades... My friend's grandmother and her 2nd husband bought a sit down / cocktail Ms.Pac Man machine sometime in the 1981/82 timeframe. I was only over their house once, probably in the summer of '82, and I thought that it was the coolest shit imaginable that somebody's grandparents had an arcade game in their den!!! And you are friggin kidding me... you can play it without having to put in quarters?!?! [my 8 year old mind melted]. Anyways, my friend's grandma gets a divorce from 2nd husband a year or two later and from what my friend was told... that was the end of the Ms.Pac Man machine... apparently step-grandpa took it with him in the divorce.
Turns out grandma had it moved into the storage / laundry room attached to the back of the garage in preparation to sell it, but eventually that must have fell through. At some point, she threw a sheet over it and had old books and christmas decorations and shit stacked on top of it for over 30 years! My friend was over there countless times and never noticed it.... he sent me a picture of it when he discovered it after grandma passed away. He said it powered up and looked playable on the screen, but the speakers were making an awful noise, so he shut if off until somebody qualified could look at it... this all happened a good five or six years ago by now... and I haven't talk to him much recently... but finding this video has inspired me to social media stalk him and find out what happened to it... can't let it be lost again to a dusty corner! "Hey Old Friend... it's been too long! how's the wife and kids? job treating you well? So.... what ever happened to that Ms.Pac Man machine from Dead Grandma's house?"
Do it man!!
I would lay it out on the table (no pun intended...even I don't buy that) "Hi My Favorite Grandson Whose Grandmother Bought A Pac-Man Table. How ya doing" Played Pac Man lately?"
I have no shame!
"Excellence in quality for the 1990s". God bless youtube and you guys!
Love hearing the train sounds around 6:40-ish
Oh man, this was a titanic blast of childhood nostalgia for me. I was 10 in 1993, and Jurassic Park was MY THING. I was desperate to see the movie, and my mom said she wouldn't let me see the movie until I read the book first. So I read the book that weekend, LOVED IT, and then saw the movie 7 times in the theater.
At the mall, right next to the movie theater, was the "Tilt Arcade" and after every screening of Jurassic Park, and many other movies I'd see at the Harkins Tri-City 5 theater in subsequent years, I'd go to the arcade after the movie and play Jurassic Park Pinball.
1993 is the only single year of my life I'm SUPER nostalgic about, so this insanely cool to see.
This is when you pull it apart and scan all the artwork , for posterity. And Virtual pinball recreation.
Scan All the documents too.
@@jazzcat123 Yes!!! VPCabs, please scan the documents if you haven't already.
And dump all the ROMs.
I agree 100%.. with this one being in MINT condition this is a perfect one to use ..
problem is...why would they..if they make a virtual pinball of this (which I would love) why would anyone buy the original. yes it's a piece of history but would you buy 10 pinball games because you like the artwork or 1 that contains all the artwork plus more. they would be shooting themselves in the foot
Great video unboxing. It's nice to see IC machines without leaky batteries. I used to operate and repair electro-mechanical pinball machines and jukeboxes in the early 70s. Not many of us left that fix those.
Man I remember playing this back in the old days at the arcades after watching the movie 🍿 best days ever no bills no worries 😉
Funny how life works that way....the older we get the less fun and more worries...😣
lol yeah
Incredible, i bet all you thought about was changing the life you had then, i want a wife, i want children, i want a house, i want a good job, no you didn't want those things, that is what society wanted you to have, you wanted to date, have sex, play pinball, hang out in your friends garage whilst his mom was at work, cycle everywhere, no car man, no bills, no 03:10am diaper changes, no mortgage payment, we spend years complaining to our parents and hating what they stand for and within a short period of time become them, what is wrong with us.
Now they don't have arcades lol
I remember playing this Jurassic Pinball back in the 90's MANY times, it was and still is one of the best pinball machines even today.
“...would’ve looked like?” What it did...what is DOES look like! It’s Brand New! Fantastic Find, guys!
Damn I wish I could have this beauty.
I feel like you guys should look into scanning the artwork and molding all of the parts that fade and break on these machines so they can be reproduced, especially since this machine is basically perfect.
WE had a Jurassic Park pinball game in the bar I worked at during college. A good portion of my paycheck went in to it when it was slow working the dayshift. Nostalgia.
Man, this game brings back so many memories. Love it!
It's incredible that a machine that was in mothballs for that long would work with (1) the complexity that pinball machines are known for and (2) all the things that could have gone wrong (leakage from the batteries, dust getting into the parts, etc).
I remember unboxing one of these back in '93. Not as exciting back then when the main goal was to get the locks changed and lock bar on it so I could get it out on the route and making money...
did it make a fair amount
So jealous! Jurassic park pinball was one of my absolute favorites as a kid.. so much money and time sunk into this machine. Nice find fellas
Truly amazing how after 25 years later it still looks factory fresh and it plays! 👍
Could have been so many things wrong but it was absolutely perfect!!
That's because 25 years ago they build thing to last.
@@DespaceMan indeed 👍
Gotta say I'm also impressed by the packaging job. So many bespoke parts to protect the machine.
Neat. In 93 I was 24. Arcades were going away. Pinball was not my favorite as a kid but as I aged I enjoyed it more...then they were gone.
I was 17 and I don't remember seeing pinball machines at all in '93. I do miss the arcades in the '80s though.
Same timeline here. Good news. Pinball is back. Big time.
I was 3.....I remeber one arcade that lasted in our local mall until I was about 12 or 13. Luckily a 10 minute drive from where I live now, there is a "retro" arcade. No ticket games, 20-30 pinball tables and over 100 arcade cabinets. Everything 25-75 cents, except the newer pinballs like the new star wars and beetles which I know is over $1 per play
I wish I could go back in time to give 24 year old you a smartphone to enjoy pinball.
Don't feel bad. In the 70's I thought it was too bad that arcades were going away. In Times Square most of the big arcades already went out of business. There were only two left by the early '80s.
Ah, memories, sweet memories! So many hours, so many quarters spent playing various pinball games. I was growing up just as the arcade craze was hitting, and must have spent several fortunes playing the countless games available near my home.
While I'd love very much to have all that money now, I don't begrudge a single play. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
The T-Rex looks so happy when you turn it on for the first time. Just look at it dancing. ^_^
"Thank you daddy! Let's play a game!"
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I clearly remember this pinball machine in a café back somewhere in 1995. Just a bit surprised they only made 9000 of these, I was expecting a bit more.
9000 is a decent number for pins back then. The most ever was Addams Family at 22,000 made.
"is it heavy?" Yeah "then it's expensive, put it back!" Haha
gosh i have played this before among others. always loved PB machines. remember the terminator one as well as guns n roses
One of the most complex arcades... the PCB's... big honkin' transformer... and thick wiring harnesses all tidy n'such... just wow.
avatar fan uh?
And dispute the size of the connectors, most the the issues with older pinball and arcade games was over current burnout of the connectors. In fact I rarely seen a pinball backboard without some of the harnesses blackened from burning up. We used to run extra wires to shore up the +5V and +12V power rails.
thats just incredible how complex is its from inside and so on, amazing
I recently inherited my Uncles home and in the corner of his basement was a unopened crate with a Dancing Lady pinball machine by Gottlieb inside of it. It was never used, completely wrapped including all hardware and paperwork. Why it was never opened none of us knew, but I do plan to have it put together and hope that it may work. Already received several offers for it, but I plan to keep it. Great video Thanks!
Congrats! Have fun
But but I’ll give you a million dollars
congrats! super rare and beautiful pin! please post if you get a chance.
enjoy the game
Sky Kitchen it would be awesome if you could make an unboxing and assemble video of it. Gottlieb machines are super awesome!
such an untouched beauty!
When he powered it up all I could think was “hold on to your butts!”
This was my favorite pinball machine as a kid.
Must be nice to be able to "lose track" of a pinball machine. For over 20 years.
noladol
I lost track of my wife for 20 years. Then UPS delivered her 😞
I remember that the way to throw the ball in this game with "the gun" and the screen seemed awesome to me as a child. Nice machine and beatiful memories. Greetings from Spain!
Thank you for sharing, 40 minutes and 15 seconds magic! What a feeling :)
So satisfying to watch this
It's fitting that it would be a Jurassic Park.
vogmar1 good call.
In my opinion, it would be even more fitting if it would have been Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. ;)
Cool !!! I'm from 1976 i grow in the 80's with Pinball what amazing time ! !! ! !! !
WOW, how on earth did you manage to find a brand new one ? great video, bring back a lot of memories
they had this at Disney in Florida at the resort arcade
wow. never realised how complex a pinball machine is.
This is mild compared to. The old bingo type pinball machines
Thanks for the memories. I remember feeding so many quarters and tokens into a JP pinball and hearing “Welcome to Jurassic Park” very cool.
4am and I'm watching a pinball machine unboxing video. WTF brain
5am here
@@JavoCover 1:20am here...I still have a ton of random youtube videos to watch until 5am!
@@nickleibert9853 2:20am just starting a new anime (ep 3), and coming from 4 hours of this demonic youtube
2:02 AM lol...Your comment should serve as a reminder to wind up...but knowing my self..
@@NikhchansGaming At least we know we are not doing well.... Kind of.
Jurassic Park was probably the 2nd best Data East Pinball game they made in that time period just behind Star Wars, a lot of fun to play, I remember playing it quite a bit back when it was at the local arcade years ago. It's rare to find a new old stock and with all the moving parts, this pinball game does break down over time so very few of them are in this kind of mint condition these days.
Wow! What a trip to my youth man. Really nice video and thanks for sharing.
Wow - what an amazing machine!!!! I´ve played it by myself 25yrs ago....