Data East ..I cant knock them

[Pintoxicated]

Data East machine definitely had and still have their place in the pinball world.  They seemed to have the better licensed themes though not saying that they really made the most of those themes e.g Simpsons, Jurassic Park, Rocky & Bullwinkle, TMNT, Hook, BTTF, GnR etc etc, pretty big licenses in their day.

I think they were targetting a certain market, namely kids with their machines and typically easier more straight forward game play and rule sets.

I'd have to agree that once a few bugs are ironed out and the standard repairs done e.g. fuse clips, they prove themselves to be very reliable machines.

[m-rots]

Unfortunately, Data East games are not seen in the same light as Bally Williams, but I'd match rather own a Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Tommy and Guns N Roses than a Medievel Madness

  I wan't what your smoking!

Well guess I smoked it  

This month I have bought a Guns N Roses,Time Machine,Rocky and B,Star Trek and Laser Wars instead of 1 Medieval Madness.
Woudn't trade them for a MM ever.

[Cow Corner]

Inhale...exhale.....then please pass this way!
Horses for courses I guess, congrats on your purchases.

[Strangeways]

Unfortunately, Data East games are not seen in the same light as Bally Williams, but I'd match rather own a Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Tommy and Guns N Roses than a Medievel Madness

  I wan't what your smoking!

Medieval Madness and Cactus Canyon are overpriced machines. Circus Voltaire, Theater of Magic, Adams Family and Scared Stiff are all better playing titles in my opinion (and that's all it is). If I had one spot left and it was a choice between MM, CC and Gunners, I'd take the Gunners. 

[Cow Corner]

Gotta agree on CC, that pin would make a very nice albeit expensive boat anchor. TOM has better flow for sure, maybe the best flowing game ever and CV is a trip of a machine both to play and look at.
I'd own a gunners if I was a fan of the band, it's de's best game by far imo.

[tonyt]

Tommy is a great game, probably my favourite in the collection at the moment.

[Greg]

"Bang for Buck" - Jurassic Park is one hell of a title.

would have to agree with you Nino.... JP is worth a buck 

gunners and TFTC are two of the best DE games  IMO

[Caveoftreasures]

I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Just a fun straight forward game with great audio. A Data East Classic. 

One of the best things is the style and era of the displays with TMNT. Fun graphics on the Electronic display. Watch the display whilst someone else is playing and it is really cool. The sewer pop up ball is a neat trick with the spinning pizza also fun. I espescially like the bright reds n green lights on the playfield inserts etc. A real keeper and a pinball wiythout too many distractions. NINJA NINJA NINJA. Love the cool pop bumpers being red/green.etc

Also great cabinet colours. A fun 1990 model. These machines in their day MUST have had alot of coin put thru these titles when on site in 1990 and 1991 thats for sure. Teenagers would have gone nuts for these cause I remember the line up at HOYTS picture theatre in Pitt Street SYDNEY. The line ups were 4 people wide n wrapped around the block. They had 3 or 4 theatres running 16 hrs a day with the same TMNT Movie playing. It was a HUGE licence. Great fun pinball for sure. Mines a keeper.   

[erx400]

I've owned probably 50% of the Data East machines at one point in time.
One of the things I didn't like about DE machines was that they all sounded the same to me.
Brian Schmidt did the music/sound on every game pretty much.

For me troubleshooting problems with them was a lot more effort compared to WMS/Bally.
I had a Jurassic Park that I should have parted out/gave away/burnt I had that much trouble with it.
It turned me off pinball for a while it was that bad for me, Fix one problem another would just spring up.
Went through a couple of rottendog boards with it also. I'd never buy another unshopped/as-is DE game again ever.

I burnt an empty LW3 cab a few months ago from a machine I parted out years ago.
Still have a box full of LW3 parts if anyone needs anything. Have pretty much everything except the cab, boards, pf, gun & topper.

[roundball]

GnR & Tommy will never leave my collection tho   

I said that once upon a time. Both now Goooone.

No reset issues.?  I have an A13 with the dreaded reset issue..  Replace the BR's, good as gold.

[pinmadd]

GnR & Tommy will never leave my collection tho   

I said that once upon a time. Both now Goooone.

No reset issues.?  I have an A13 with the dreaded reset issue..  Replace the BR's, good as gold.

LOL, mate  , Well Tommy could go, But never GnR 

No reset issues, but had to do a BR for insert light's on Tommy, GnR just got new Trifurcon molex plugs for the power supply board as the old plugs had gone crispy 

Unfortunately, Data East games are not seen in the same light as Bally Williams, but I'd match rather own a Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Tommy and Guns N Roses than a Medievel Madness

  I wan't what your smoking!

Well guess I smoked it 

This month I have bought a Guns N Roses,Time Machine,Rocky and B,Star Trek and Laser Wars instead of 1 Medieval Madness.
Woudn't trade them for a MM ever.

LOL, I use to think the same........ Until i got a MM   

[Cow Corner]

I would love to own a MM but it is out of my range price wise.
Luckily for me I have a good mate close by that does have a very nice MM,along with some other very fine pins and whenever we catch up for a few beers a chinwag and some pin we always spend the most time on MM.
It took me a little while to warm to it but once I did...wow, it's an insanely cool machine.