Author Topic: Gottlieb Solar Ride Restore  (Read 2328 times)

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Re: Gottlieb Solar Ride Restore - finished
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2009, 11:14:56 PM »

The game was finished and the decision was already made to eBay it to fund the next project(s). It played exceptionally well, and I was sad to let it go, but it deserved to be in a collection rather in my garage or gamesroom. I had it on eBay for a day and a colector made an offer  #@# and it was gone that evening.

Here are some final pictures of the game before it left ;










This machine had one of the best playfields I had ever seen for a game of its vintage. Here's a close up of the playfield to highlight the colors of the playfield.





I have an attraction to system 1 machines. There's something about a machine that is half EM / half Solid State. The artwork was very good for the era. I have a few more in the pipeline...


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