![]() ![]() While it is true that Pinball nearly vanished in the late 1990s as video gaming and home console gaming were on the upswing, thanks to some determined people and companies (cough, Stern Pinball, cough), Pinball managed to limp along for a few years before enjoying a resurgence in recent years.ĭespite dwindling to just a single manufacturer as recently as the 2000s, the Pinball industry is thriving again, and only getting stronger. Sadly many pins have been subject to these storage conditions or one similar.Despite what you may think if you're not actively in the arcade and retro gaming scene, Pinball has never really died. Have that and the best designed pin will still be a mess. Combined with 100% humidity days so the cooler parts in the pin condense water. Like an unheated garage in central PA where the temperature swings between 100+ in the summer sun and the teens or lower in the winter. The best made pin will still be a basket case if stored marginally. But I have also found ones that nearly every connector needed some love to make it work right. But I have found early 1980's pins that were stored well and had zero connector issues. If the pin was stored in a marginal environment for a bunch of years the connectors will be in awful shape. The games are on so little and played so little once they are in a collectors home it is corrosion that is going to kill them. The connectors are going to corrode, perhaps if I was in the desert things would be better, but in humid central PA things corrode. Very tough pins, contact-less switches were a great idea.Ĭorrosion is pretty much the problem in all of my pins. I was going to chime in with Gottlieb sys 3 pins, but I was already beat to that point. The good ballys 100k + plays alot still work and play with minor problems fresh from the farm unless the batteries leaked machines 76-84 but then after 84 they started getting made cheaper with midway cabinets and the lack of updated boards and features finished them off with the videos taking over.īut even old and neglected the ballys seem to have held up the best over time and abuse more abuse than any of the new stuff has had or will have in the future. Old sterns held up ok but prolly becouse they stole ballys board designs. Gotteliebs well notorious headache with ground issues etc (unreliable) In the early 80s williams had the interconnect issues and were made cheaper than ballys. I would guarantee the new sterns would be junk under the same circumstances. the new sterns obsolutely dont qualify and they dont get played like they would have in the 80s.Įven the machines from the 90s didnt get the beating the 80s machines did, but with the decline of pinball popularity also caused more neglect of routed machines.īut the SS era (early 80s) was when they were treated like cattle pounded the hardest constantly and got the most wrong storage & operator abuse and overall most gameplay and a great deal of them have survived pretty well. I work at a club that has 70+ machines from time to time and i can tell you the new sterns pretty reliable electronicly but dont have much time on them nor the use of the older machines.īut even the new sterns some 6 months old only already losing playfield art having some flipper issues etc. Well this topic is the (most reliable) machines. ![]()
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