Arcade Collecting > Pinball
New stern pinball MPU system
pbj:
I liked the era around Elvis, LOTR, Ripley's, and Monopoly.
My "op buddy" (we all need an op buddy) says they earn the same no matter what it is, so he quit putting new Sterns on route.
What drives me nuts about them is every single shot does something and they're constantly flashing a ton of inserts. People have mistaken this for 'complex' gameplay. Cause one thing people want when they walk up to a ding ding shitbox is a complicated game.
Ken Layton:
My operator friend has games like Dirty Harry, Demo Man, Funhouse, etc on his route and they earn good money. Plus the machines are all paid for!
Sarver Systems:
Surface mount components arent mush harder to replace than through-hole.
Of course, some exceptions would be the ICs, and I'm sure there are a metric ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----ton of them on the boards.
But smaller parts like resistors, caps, LEDs, etc...just require a more delicate tough and maybe some tweezers.
Good news is that those parts are often much cheaper and much easier to warehouse than older through-hole parts.
I assume the connectors are still through hole, even if to just use the board as a foundation to keep it solid after plugging and unplugging mulitiple times.
Ken Layton:
--- Quote from: Sarver Systems on January 12, 2015, 03:05:20 pm ---Surface mount components aren't much harder to replace than through-hole.
--- End quote ---
Try that on location in a tavern at 8pm on a Friday night. ::)
pbj:
Other than those large capacitors that warm up and bake themselves off the boards, I'd never really heard any issues with Capcom games and those were all surface mount components weren't they?
I used to be all doom and gloom on surface mount electronics but they haven't exactly been the worst thing in the world.
I have a feeling a substantial chunk of their sales are to home users that are just going to send it in for replacement either way.
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