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I love this stuff, you know the machines that never made it for one reason or another.

 

Interesting to see what could have been released. They always seem to have something out of the ordinary on the play fields or are just over the top.

 

If you have any please post them up here. Just the sort of thing inspiring Home Brew pinball makers can get there ideas from.;)

 

How's this one to kick things off?.

 

It's a Bally EM that is 4 foot by 8 foot in size. The rights to the idea were sold to Atari and evolved into Hercules.

 

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i have a fishtales which has a red insert on the auto cast instead of a green one from factory..i was told by a pin tech that it could be one of the sample games that were made first up or a prototype as its the only one he has ever seen like that...
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Aaron Spelling pinball. Aaron Spellings family commissioned this to be made for a birthday present for him. A modified Data East 'Lethal Weapon 3'. Only 2 where made.

Those that attended the 2014 Aust Pinball Expo at Sydney would have seen this one. Thanks to Michael Shelhoub for displaying it.

 

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I was lucky enough to play it...

 

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Here's a pic of the HS2 Sample game I owned for many years and always wondered why it was different until I read about it on IPDB :never had a write up on this sample until after I had sold it.

It was an LAI AUS delivered machine. Purchased at auction on absentee bid. Pics aren't the best (35mm scan) but the proof is there if you look for it. One of the most un noticable changes is the SC ramp plastic, notice it's opposite and I don't just mean the globes but the text as well and no heading. Look for the rest of em. Original cabinet look how vivid the colour was.I wonder who owns it now?

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Aaron Spelling pinball. Aaron Spellings family commissioned this to be made for a birthday present for him. A modified Data East 'Lethal Weapon 3'. Only 2 where made.

Those that attended the 2014 Aust Pinball Expo at Sydney would have seen this one. Thanks to Michael Shelhoub for displaying it.

 

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I was lucky enough to play it...

 

 

Yes and I noticed how happy and gay you looked playing it.....:p

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I had a prototype Earthshaker with the sinking institute not just a plastic building. It was OZ delivered and when I went to sell here on AA not a soul was interested at the time. Ended up selling it to a guy in the next street after he saw an ad in the local paper I placed. Wonder if he's still got it - Hmmmm?
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I love this idea. It seemed to answer the operators complaints about why they didn't like pinballs and preferred vidoes. No wheels and a to big a foot print.

 

Seven flippers on 3 playfields with the strategy to climb to the upper play field.

 

This general idea is something I have on my Bucket List. It has hefty patents on the ideas but that just means you need to think outside the square.;)

 

 

Bally's The Pinball Circus. Only two made and regarded as the Holly Grail of pinballs.

 

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Video does this game justice...

 

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Pinball circus was being remade...not sure where its up to or still happening.

 

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Rob was it you who had the AC/DC with the spike system?

That was unusual

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Ha, thats right, i forgot about that. I got a call to help repair an ACDC locally, and when i opened the backbox (i had never seen inside an ACDC at this point), there was a tiny board in the back and that was it. I posted it here and on pinside, was a classic as some on pinside quoted it was a fake and photoshopped.

 

I didn't really know where to start (cant remember the error, maybe something to do with node boards?), but what happened was AMD very quickly shipped the owner a new Luci, as i suspect they sent the spike trial machine.

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I have a Dr Who that came with the rare original Moving Dalek. It's not one of the aftermarket kits and has internals as shown in the Dalek Assembly page of the manual.

 

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According to the Internet Pinball Database:

 

Designer Bill Pfutzenreuter told us that about a dozen (or less) sample games were made, followed by approximately 100 prototype games, before regular production began. Up to this point in manufacture, the Dalek head in the backbox topper moved from side to side. As a cost saving measure, once regular production began, the motor and front-facing opto for this movement were removed, resulting in the Dalek head being stationary (non-moving) on production games. The wiring and software for this feature was left intact, and this has allowed game owners to reinstall the missing components, either by purchasing after-market kits or by purchasing the components individually, to again make the Dalek head move from side to side.

 

We asked Pfutz if he was aware of a way for new owners of this game to discern if their moving Dalek head came from the factory that way or was retrofitted. He said that Williams had glued the stationary Dalek head onto the body, therefore the kits had to "unglue" or cut the head off, and that it was complained that Williams had used too much glue. Thus, perhaps one could look for any irregular cuts or glue remnants. If anyone knows of additional ways to positively identify retrofits, please contact us.

 

So I pulled mine apart to see if it was initially glued on and cut off and it looks like it wasn't:

 

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Inside of base, upside down

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A couple of one offs in this video including Python's controversial Zingy Bingy porn pinball thought to be lost featuring bumpers in the shape of boobs.

 

Like Python or hate him, at least he tried things out of field. Amazing the list of machines he did design mentioned in this video and a lot of high earners like Pinbot and Fish Tales.

 

 

https://vimeo.com/89822174

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Aaron Spelling pinball. Aaron Spellings family commissioned this to be made for a birthday present for him. A modified Data East 'Lethal Weapon 3'. Only 2 where made.

Those that attended the 2014 Aust Pinball Expo at Sydney would have seen this one. Thanks to Michael Shelhoub for displaying it.

 

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I was lucky enough to play it...

 

 

Imagine having the money to get a pinball company to make a custom game for your husband? Amazing. I think Data East made a few games like this where only 1 or 2 exist.

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Wico's AF-TOR. The first pin to have alpha numerical displays. 7 months before Gottlieb and two years before Williams.

 

Cabinet was half metal, half wood.....

 

Alpha-numeric displays. Hinged backbox. The backbox has two portions: a rear portion made of metal which houses the control board and the driver board, and a front portion made of wood and screwed to the metal portion and which houses the fluorescent light box, backglass, and alphanumeric display assembly. The lower cabinet front, back, and bottom are metal while its sides are wood. Two sturdy metal columns elevate the backbox allowing the playfield to extend under it.

 

The designer tried using aluminum balls in the prototype for extremely high speed play but parts were being smashed so common pinballs were used.

 

This was Wico, a parts supplier/ manufacturer's only attempt at a pinball.

 

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Wico's AF-TOR. The first pin to have alpha numerical displays. 7 months before Gottlieb and two years before Williams.

 

Cabinet was half metal, half wood.....

 

Alpha-numeric displays. Hinged backbox. The backbox has two portions: a rear portion made of metal which houses the control board and the driver board, and a front portion made of wood and screwed to the metal portion and which houses the fluorescent light box, backglass, and alphanumeric display assembly. The lower cabinet front, back, and bottom are metal while its sides are wood. Two sturdy metal columns elevate the backbox allowing the playfield to extend under it.

 

The designer tried using aluminum balls in the prototype for extremely high speed play but parts were being smashed so common pinballs were used.

 

This was Wico, a parts supplier/ manufacturer's only attempt at a pinball.

 

 

http://mirror2.ipdb.org/images/25/image-8.jpg

 

 

I like the start button... how the hell are you supposed to start a game?!

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Varkon, only 90 made by Williams using a system 7 board set.

 

Flippers are operated by joysticks on control panel. Has two playfields. Main playfield has two 3-inch flippers, one pop bumper, and a kick-back lane. Ball is launched into play from between flippers. Completing target sequence on main playfield activates lower playfield which has two 2-inch flippers and its own ball.

 

Varkon is a two-level game, although each playfield has its own ball. (The ball does not pass between the two playfields.) The lower playfield is visible through a window in the upper playfield.

 

Both playfields are tilted away from the player and viewed through a mirror. The mirror is mounted at eye-level, so the illusion is presented that the ball is moving about on a vertical playfield.

 

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One of my top favourite games, would love to have one.

I just hope you don't dig up too many unusual pinballs, I'd hate to see everybody searching for machines on my wishlist making it harder for me lol...

 

Varkon, only 90 made by Williams using a system 7 board set.

Flippers are operated by joysticks on control panel. Has two playfields. Main playfield has two 3-inch flippers, one pop bumper, and a kick-back lane. Ball is launched into play from between flippers. Completing target sequence on main playfield activates lower playfield which has two 2-inch flippers and its own ball.

Varkon is a two-level game, although each playfield has its own ball. (The ball does not pass between the two playfields.) The lower playfield is visible through a window in the upper playfield.

Both playfields are tilted away from the player and viewed through a mirror. The mirror is mounted at eye-level, so the illusion is presented that the ball is moving about on a vertical playfield.

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