Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Pinball Re-Releases?
nickbuol:
I think that the idea of a pinball kit is pretty cool. Sure, there are miles and miles of wiring on a regular pin, but that is where you can really put forth your time and love of "DIY" into the project.
I've seen some youtube videos of people building their own pinball from scratch (with the help of John Popadiuk) and it took them forever, but if you could start with an unpopulated playfield, maybe the cabinet parts, and then all of the electronics, I would thing that money could be saved. Sure, no real warranty, but it would be fun.
I guess a real die hard could get a NOS playfield and put their own stuff in it, but again, sourcing the items to make it authentic would be a P.I.T.A.
yaksplat:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 21, 2012, 02:12:48 pm ---Jesus Christ. How many times are we going to have to go through this...
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Until it happens.
pinballjim:
How much of a margin do you think Stern is really making? If you bought a kit you'd still need an assembled playfield and wiring harness. Well, guess what, bucko - that's the most expensive part of the process.
ArcadeDunce:
spent an hour trying to figure uot virtual pinball..that introductary should help :)
I wonder how they get those pinballs to function so smoothly and cool-y in the virtua pin files on youtube..after just spending an hour trying to get the dang software to work :)
yaksplat:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 21, 2012, 02:52:13 pm ---If you bought a kit you'd still need an assembled playfield and wiring harness. Well, guess what, bucko - that's the most expensive part of the process.
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I'd need a silkscreened playfield and no harness. Problem solved :)
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