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justincasekazoo
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Pinball, anyone?
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 6, It's Alive! The End?
Using your own words, in 5000 words or less, describe this machine:
Snake Eyes is finally presentable-- whaaat? It's playing as intended, bugs ironed out. If this is the first time you're seeing this machine, this is an entirely custom electro mechanical single player game. Built from spare parts over the course of a month or two.
The rules, as explained in the video, are as follows-
Win by high score, points, all five balls in the gobble hole (extra special, worth 5 replays), and by completing the "pip" sequence.
Not mentioned in the video, completing the pip sequence awards bonus, also.
Snake Eyes is finally presentable-- whaaat? It's playing as intended, bugs ironed out. If this is the first time you're seeing this machine, this is an entirely custom electro mechanical single player game. Built from spare parts over the course of a month or two.
The rules, as explained in the video, are as follows-
Win by high score, points, all five balls in the gobble hole (extra special, worth 5 replays), and by completing the "pip" sequence.
Not mentioned in the video, completing the pip sequence awards bonus, also.
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Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 5, Wacky World of Wires
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Don't watch this unless you're building a pinball machine. You'll waste your time. This is a video. Various wavelengths of light will be emitted from your screen at a rapid speed to produce the illusion of movement. Various wavelengths of energy we call sound will travel from your sound-making device we call speakers to your sound-receiving devices we call ears. There is nothing to see here. St...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 4, Relay Replay
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After playing around with a live playfield, it's time to build the relays and draw the schematic. We have to decide how many relays we need, and what each one will be for. There will be a bank coil for each feature for example, one for each rollover button (7) and one for each red dead bumper (5). These will have to be separate trip banks, so that they can reset independently throughout the gam...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 3, Electro-Ball!
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Now all the goodies are pretty well positioned, we wire the sucka up for sound. Tap those bumpas and flippas into some powa. Bat the ball around, see what happens? Pretend to play a game or sixty five. I time each 5 ball game I pretend to play, and keep track in my head my progress in the game's sequence. Do I complete the sequence? Win a game, based on the rules I've imagined? I want the avera...
Building an EM Pinball Machine: Part 2, Playfield Shenanigan
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Almost overnight, the parts appear. Who is that little goblin that comes in and puts things on the playfield while I'm sleeping? I dunno, but it looks good to me. This is one of the most exciting parts: the design becomes real. I start by plotting out every single element on the plywood, using a ruler and a rafter square. By hand? With a pencil? What is this, the Middle Ages? All the posts, fli...
Building an EM Pinball Machine From Scratch: Part 1
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And so it begins. The way ideas go, they can only live inside my head for so long. It was time for this one to be for real. This is my third homebrew pinball machine. Watch as I start from nothing and pull myself up by my bootstraps. Or don't watch. I think the machine will get built either way. But I hope this will be of interest to someone out there. My credentials? None. Resume? Everything I...
Gottlieb's Mystic Marvel Pinball, 1954
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Gottlieb's Mystic Marvel Pinball, 1954
Gottlieb's Globe Trotter Pinball, 1951
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If you don't mind reverse flipper and like games of this era, do yourself a favor and try this one out next time you see it in your local drugstore.
PAMCO's Time Pinball Machine
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PAMCO produced Time in 1935. It features a clock face with a spinning arm to place well-aimed balls into progressive pockets. Straight from the Billboard advertisement, February 23, 1935: "TIME invites PRIMARY and SECONDARY systems of scoring... Here's a machine with DOUBLE APPEAL First, "Primary" Scoring with True SKILL the chief playing requisite. A ball driven into the cubical enclosure atop...
Pacific Amusement's Major League Pinball
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My apologies for the quietness in some of these videos. Play shown at 2:25. Major League was produced by the Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company (PAMCO) in 1934 as a follow up to their wildly popular game Contact. Contact was designed by a young Harry Williams, and Los Angeles-based PAMCO produced it under contract for the west coast markets. Contact was the first commercially successful pi...
Gottlieb's Classy Bowler Pinball
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Manufactured in 1956, Classy Bowler had a production run of 1100. Instructions at the beginning, and gameplay begins at 4:45. One of the best woodrails out there.
Gottlieb All Star Basketball Pinball
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A Wayne Neyens design from 1952. Production run of 1000. It's a simple game, and a pretty difficult one. I did surprisingly well in the demo here getting both rollovers in the first two balls was key.
Homebrew EM Pinball #2 -- "League Champion"
มุมมอง 809ปีที่แล้ว
Here's the whitewood of homebrew number two another woodrail style game. A gobble hole jackpot of up to 15 replays very exciting! Rules explained first, then see it in action at 7:45.
Homebrew EM Pinball Machine
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I built an original electro-mechanical game in the style of a woodrail two gobble holes, four ways to win, and a flipper gap wide enough to drive a bus through. Since I was working out of a parts bin, some of the bumper caps don't mean what they say. Pop bumpers are 10,000, or 100,000 when lit, and the two dead bumpers are just 10,000. No ball counter yet. Coming soon!
oooooooo, actual bells in a pinball machine, as God intended. This is really awesome, I can't wait to see this when you finish it up. What's up with the buzzing though? Last time I heard a buzzing like that the match unit in my Super-flit was locking up due to the leaf switches in the advanced bonus solenoid sticking.
Haha, yes, real bells! Thanks for the kind words. There's a ball gate that stays open when the game is started until the first 10,000 is scored, and that buzzes pretty loudly.
that's fantastic
That's pretty dope! Good on ya!
Nice job! Looks like it's dangerously addictive. Bravo
Thanks! Every machine has been a learning experience. I really like the ruleset, but as it turns out, rollover buttons aren't as satisfying targets to hit as bumpers, or standup targets. This one is fun, but ultimately I think the machine I built before this one is more fun to play.
VERY cool, greetings From Germany
this is so cool! Normally I'm not a fan of gobble holes but it really works here. Good ruleset.
Hey, thanks! They were an acquired taste, that's for sure. And now with the mindset of a designer I see the value in "getting the ball off the playfield," as funny as that might sound. Shorten the game time and give the player something in return!
Great machine!
Where is this machine? I have one that i am repairing currently.
I love the way the balls glide around the outer track before going into play.
I want that.
Damn dog lol😂
Same beautiful sounds as other Gottliebs of the time. You have good bump skills.
The lower flipper area is the same as Central Park. Got to bump it a bit.
My first pinball purchase .....age 12 Saved returnable bottles until I had $15. This would have been 1961. The game was difficult but amazingly trouble free. Traded it for a Gottlieb wedge when I was 15. The beginning of my collection! Wow, thanks for the video.
Is it electrical mechanical? Absolutely beautiful table in such excellent condition!
Yes, it runs on 6 or 12 volts-- probably 6. It originally would have had batteries but it has long since been converted to a transformer. Someone had refinished the cabinet at some point, but the whole machine looks terrific. I was quite envious when I saw it!
I've got this machine in my basement right now. However, it's on an endless cycle of reset after you play just one ball. Any suggestions?
Does it begin to reset again as soon as 10,000 points are scored?
All self deprecating humor aside, I have really been enjoying this build. As I have your other builds as well. I'm trying my best right now to learn the schematics on a Williams 4-Star from 58', as someone in the past has really messed up the wiring. None of the playfield lights are lit and the starting sequence is, if i'm lucky, a quarter turn of the score motor, and then some coils lock on. Ha ha. Got so much work to do to track down all that is messed up. I would like to do what you are doing in building EM homebrews myself, but I can tell I have a long way to go to get there. Please, keep doing what your doing, more people are interested than you might expect.
Hey, thanks for the kind words. That's how I started! I learned how to repair the games first, and then it turns out the skillset is the same for building them. However, I didn't learn on machines that had been tampered with! That's a double whammy. Do you have someone to help you walk through the schematic? That's what I found to be the hardest part about learning this trade, understanding the diagrams. When you get to the point you're building homebrews, please share your work! I'm always very interested to see other EM creations.
I actually have an update, my basic self didn't notice that two fuses blew the first time I started the game, replaced those with the correct fuses and now the game mostly starts, I at least have lights, and playfield targets are working. Which is progress, ha ha. Since I live close to Elkhart, IN I could always ask John at Elkhart Pinball for some help, for the right price I'm sure he could help me out. I should post some of my pins here soon, recently I bought a Gottlieb Baffle Card from 1947 from John at Elkhart and I know there is no game play footage anywhere on TH-cam. I've also hand made a replica of Playboy by Gottlieb from 1932. I'm hoping to have the 4 star up and playing by May, and I might bring my two 1930's machines to Pinball at the Zoo this year. Can't wait to see this finished whitewood up and working. I only wish I could play it too, haha.
@@mechanicsnut9800 That's great! I love progress like that. Very little swearing required to replace a fuse. Yes, I'd be interested to see a Baffle Card in action, with an explanation of the rules. I've seen one in a parts pile, but never played one. Very cool that you built a Playboy. Is that fun? It's another I've never played.
Try angling the kickout holes so that they launch the ball back toward the flippers.
That would be a fun arrangement, too. After a little more adjustment, I think I have a good balance of back and forth. I like the volley action, so I wanted to keep that. But kickout holes that "pitch" the ball to the flipper are enjoyable, so not a bad idea at all.
thanks for sharing the process with us
Cool game!!!
Seems extremely boring.
exciting!
So glad to see you documenting this one bud!
Very modern looking playfield for it's time period.
Those who think woodrail pinball machines are slow and boring to play, should watch this video. It's on my wanted list now for sure!
epic game
One of my favourite woodrails of all time!
I agree! Definitely in the top 1%.
Ten thousand points. Very nice!
thanks, I really appreciate these videos
Interesting design. I would like to have something of this era someday.
Cool early EM-Pinball:) Looks like Fun to Play.👍👍
Please raise up the front legs, that game will play twice as good. Pinball is like fighter planes, speed is life. An amazing game, 1M target on an EM game!
thank you
Good idea for game.
awesome!
Actually a family member lol… Bill Gouzie
I have this 45! My father was friends with the father of one of the band members. I was really young (58 now). Always liked this track and ‘loving you’ on the other side too
I love this machine and the playfield design, but it IS tough ! That last kickout hole on the right likes to shoot it back right down the middle into the center drain. I'd see if there was a way to adjust it a little not to do that . This machine has a huge payoff when you get all the targets for SPECIALS , but it's not easy to get there. Very addicting machine.
I love this machine mee too and the playfield design it IS love ! Very addicting machine.
Awesome! Love these “simple” old timer machines 😉
awesome table!!
I played this as a teenager in New Jersey Found it and beat it again as a senior in Vegas!😅 ❤
Very cool machine, not many machines have a way to “win” anymore
Neat to see all kinds of pinball
Nice sounds (except the dog!)
I'm a pinball supporter from the Philippines, your videos are very entertaining and i wish i could make a pinball machine like you did on a video, because the pinball machines in the philippines, asia (my country) are disappearing in every arcade in the philippines. So i want to make every replica gottlieb, williams or classic stern in the future, Possible to make a pinball machine? Thanks! ;)
I encourage you to try it! Why are they disappearing? Are they being replaced by video games?
@@justincasekazoo Yes. They are gone by 2023 this year which they've been replaced by most arcade games, the last time i played pinball in the philippines was 2017. Then played last time in Florida, USA was 2019. Also, i have plans on replicating Gottlieb Classic Table called Big Shot (No right side gate to plunger) in the future. I might buy a Stern Mustang tbh that costs 90 thousands i guess.
Gracias Justincase por este video. I am trying to tecreate this table for Future Pinball and this will help a lot. There is very few information about it. Do you remember a video where you were playing Genco "Bang" frlm 1939? Thanks to that video I recreated " Bang".
That's terrific! I'm very glad this can be of use to you, and I'm pleased that you are giving these old tables some love.
Thank you for displaying such a classic car, Mr Nesmith! I am eager to see your review of the 68 Volkswagen Bus!
Cool design. I love woodrails where you have to go in sequence. It's more wiring, but I'd also recommend an option to require bumpers go in sequence as well. For competition I like coming up with a value for replays so that the score can be added to. If you had to consider that option, what do you think a fair point value of a replay would be if someone wanted to use this in a tournament?
Thanks! I love the sequential bumpers, too. I'd like to build one like that-- I have a couple designs floating around. That's an excellent idea. A friend had the idea of having a tournament where your ranking was based on the number of specials you were able to light or collect. With the woodrails, there are a lot of options for that. As far as score? Maybe 500,000 for each replay? Since you can often win quite a few games at once, your adjusted scores could get pretty high. It sounds fun to try that!
Would love to see a build log of this 😮
I thought about that! I took a number of photos throughout the process, but I didn't write anything up. Should I do that for the next one? (I have homebrew machine #2 almost done, so it would be the one after next, really.)
@@justincasekazoo YESSS!! I'm wanting to open a small arcade soon in Ireland and pinball machines aren't very common here so I was looking at building my own
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