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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Discussion => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: pict on January 06, 2009, 01:19:28 AM
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Hi All,
I am very much a pinball newbie. I live out in Western Sydney.
I have been collecting video games for quite a while now but my real passion is for the pinball machines. My best memories of pinball machines as a youth is visiting the Arcade stores / camping Games Rooms while on holidays on the NSW central coast.
My new years resolution is to finish off restoration work on 2 pinnies I have Blue Chip & Hot Tip. Oh and to buy another one... hopefully.
I'm sort of looking out for 1984 Touchdown Pinball http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2610&picno=3803 (http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2610&picno=3803).
Mark
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Nice little collection. Touchdown looks interesting. Don't ever recall seeing one of those.
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Welcome Mark, good luck with the Touchdown hunt. %)%
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for posting and it is great to see you here at AP.
Now that Blue Chip is the famous one in The Pinball Compendium 1970 - 81 on page 92 *%*
Stick around and if you have any questions fire away!
Cheers
Tony
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%)% to the forum mate! i joined a couple of weeks ago and this site is jam packed with pinballs,restorations and good people. enjoy!!!
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Good to have you onboard, there is plenty of help available with restorations and repairs around here.
I'm guessing these are both EMs? Or do you have the SS version of Hot Tip?
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G'Day Mark and %)%...
Feel free to post questions or a restoration thread anytime !
Glad to have you on board... Good luck with the search for the Touchdown.. The only Touchdown I've ever seen is the Williams EM - Which I used to love playing as a kid..
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Hi & welcome Mark!
Matthew
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I'm guessing these are both EMs? Or do you have the SS version of Hot Tip?
Its the SS Version of Hot Tip.
Now that Blue Chip is the famous one in The Pinball Compendium 1970 - 81 on page 92 *%*
Hi Tony - Are you saying its the Actual one pictured? I will have to dig up a copy and have a look.
Good luck with the search for the Touchdown.. The only Touchdown I've ever seen is the Williams EM - Which I used to love playing as a kid..
Yeah I remember playing that one as well. The reason that I am particularly looking for the 1984 Touchdown is that a while back I bought one of the original signed design mylars (non-adhesive) of the playfield done by John Trudeau. Sometime this year I will get it framed with some pictures etc for the Games Room. Nothing would compliment this more than the actual pinnie to go with it :)
Mark
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Hello & welcome %$%
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Yes Mark,
The Blue Chip in Mike's second book was originally mine....check out the centre plastic which gives it away.
I traded the game with Michael, who then traded it to Scott Grey, who sold it to the person you bought it off!
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Yes Mark,
The Blue Chip in Mike's second book was originally mine....check out the centre plastic which gives it away.
I traded the game with Michael, who then traded it to Scott Grey, who sold it to the person you bought it off!
Ouch, I have since replaced the centre plastic.
I love this history... Do pinballs have unique serials that can be tracked?
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They do have serial numbers - yours should be under the front door. Gottlieb also stamped on the top of the head.
The only reason I know the history of your pin is word of mouth
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Hi Mark,
Welcome to the forum.
regards Derek
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$.$ Mark and %)% plenty of good folk round these here parts ()
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Hi Mark, and %)%
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$.$ Welcome Mark. It's all pinball here mate. :D
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Yes Mark,
The Blue Chip in Mike's second book was originally mine....check out the centre plastic which gives it away.
I traded the game with Michael, who then traded it to Scott Grey, who sold it to the person you bought it off!
Ouch, I have since replaced the centre plastic.
I love this history... Do pinballs have unique serials that can be tracked?
Gday Mark .. I'm the guy who sold you your Blue Chip via Ebay a couple of years ago.
Just wanted to clarify that the Blue Chip you have has the playfield, plastic set and back glass that was from the game Tony owned some years ago but the cabinet is from a different machine.
I have the cabinet that was originally Tony's machine, (with the PF, plastics set and backglass from the 2nd machine ).
About 6 months after I bought the game Tony used to own, I bought a second Blue Chip from Ebay which had a better PF, backglass and plastics set.
I would be very interested to hear how you've gone with your resto on your Blue Chip so far and do you have any progress pics?
Rgds
Dave
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Gday Mark .. I'm the guy who sold you your Blue Chip via Ebay a couple of years ago.
Just wanted to clarify that the Blue Chip you have has the playfield, plastic set and back glass that was from the game Tony owned some years ago but the cabinet is from a different machine.
I have the cabinet that was originally Tony's machine, (with the PF, plastics set and backglass from the 2nd machine ).
About 6 months after I bought the game Tony used to own, I bought a second Blue Chip from Ebay which had a better PF, backglass and plastics set.
I would be very interested to hear how you've gone with your resto on your Blue Chip so far and do you have any progress pics?
Rgds
Dave
Gday Dave,
Its good to hear from you again. Yeah that is what I had gathered about the Blue Chip - you have helped fill in the gaps.
Let me begin by saying I use the word 'restoration' very loosely when I compare it to the top restoration I see in this forum. The restoration of Blue Chip gets interupted when we get the itch to play it. So you can say it is never really pulled apart too much for too long. We have replaced the chimes, made a replica of the mising plastic (many thanks for the image) - it looks great. And have restored part of the cabinet.
Recently we have restored a couple of arcade machines (including 720) and an old Foosball Table (30years?) which I also bought from Tony.
Now we are working on Hot Tip and I need to build a cabinet for my fav arcade game (Ikari Warriors) also I have my eye out looking for a new project pin (or 2) to work on.
My problem is that I get an attachment to these machines I work on and only have a finite space to store them. Something I need to resolve in due course.
Thanks Mark
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Nice little collection. Touchdown looks interesting. Don't ever recall seeing one of those.
The wait has been long (dang they only made 711 of them) but should have Touchdown in my collection tomorrow #*# #*# #*#