I have ummed and arred about getting a RFM for 10 years - seriously! I almost bought one a few months before locating an AFM (and that was 10 years ago this December).
Later I got put off by the PC failure risk. Then I was going to buy one when Nucore hit the market - but they got thin on the ground and went up in price.
Now they can be had for well under $3K, and at half to a third of the cost of an AFM (if you can find one for sale), they are a great buy.
Good as AFM? No, not quite, although not far off. But as a game on its own merits - well after a bunch of games this week and a night playing only this with Timbo last night, we came to the conclusion that this game is nothing short of wonderful. You can read opinions in IPDB, but in the end it comes down to playing one yourself, and frankly I love this game!
Big thanks to Oscar
http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?board=124.0 for sourcing the game for me at a great price, and because I can't lift for a couple more months, organising delivery for a small fee to Geelong. Great service, much appreciated!
Greg
www.rtbb.com.au sent me down some targets to replace a couple that were not original, and a proper P2K flipper kit, and I think I'll be spending the weekend on this game playing and trying to get to that wizard mode!
Playfield is almost perfect, and we'll re-do the cabinet decals shortly so it will look the part as the originals have 14 years of exposure, so will benefit from replacement. But that's about all that will need to be done to bring this to A1 condition.
Big thanks to Dan riverinapinball for help with the game code update.
Here's some photos......
