A Game Of Pinball

[TheGenesisfreak]

DAFT PUNK :D!

[Multi3DSlover]

So basically, There's a spinner in that machinery that spins the playing field to up, down, and left, right.

[Maxxarcade]

@Multi3DSlover Actually it just turns. The playfield is angled down towards the flippers at all times, like a normal pinball.

[spazzman90]

Beautiful machine, thanks for sharing. Please clarify for me.  I assume it doesn't do multiplayer games or alternate between players. I assume if no one is playing, anyone sitting at the 4 positions can insert a coin and start a game and the table rotates to their position for them to play a full game. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Maxxarcade]

@spazzman90 It does switch players automatically by rotating, if more than one person is playing. It will also allow a single player to sit in any position and play from that spot.

[101Osprey101]

OK. That rotating playfield is frickin' COOL!

[kevinpeterson71]

i am in california and what does pm mean

[Maxxarcade]

@kevinpeterson71 PM means to send me a separate note, instead of going through video comments :-)

[kevinpeterson71]

@Maxxarcade can you tell me how many of these machines were made and what they may be worth i would like to find out more

[Maxxarcade]

@kevinpeterson71 I'm not sure exactly how many, but it's a small number for a pinball game. I'd have to ask my boss, since he's the one who would know.

[kevinpeterson71]

i have the same one sitting in my garage that I am wanting to fix up but finding it hard to get any info on can any one help me

[Maxxarcade]

@kevinpeterson71 Where are you located? Send me a PM.

[TitoCompianni]

Está demás este flipper!

[DroehnIng]

wow ... verry interesting pinball maschine!

[bobbie4]

The joys of youtube.

I have serviced a lot of pins in my life, but in all honesty I had never seen anything like this.

[JBSCAR]

can't be 'RARE" if its been sold on ebay and YOU recommend to look for one! FRICK! must be nice to have that one.

[Japz80]

Very cool to actually see one of these in working order. And it looks stunning as well. If I had the room for it, I'd go hunting for one myself.

Ok this is nitpicking, but why did you use a combination of black and white playfield rubbers? I don't mean the flipper rubbers, of course.

PS The background music (Daft Punk) goes great with it ;-)

[Maxxarcade]

@Japz80 We were out of certain size white rubbers at the time, so we used black ones temporarily.

[super8ben]

any chance you know anywhere I could buy one of these machines? also if you have any ideas of online retailers for old machines I'd love to know since I live in the southern part of California. Thanks

[Maxxarcade]

Look in the phone book under Amusement, you might find a local company that sells them to collectors.

This particular machine is very rare, but it does turn up on Ebay once in a while.

[MetallicaTime]

awesome!!!!

[epinky2295]

that is fucking awesome

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

that's not a vintage... that's a RETRO!!!

[landraiderares]

I've never seen a cocktail-style table that rotated like that...my jaw is on the floor.  Unbelievable!

[oreoocat]

I have a Rotation VIII in need of repairs..Any recommendations..Chicago area

[Maxxarcade]

What is the problem with it? I am in Michigan, so I won't be able to help too much. There should be lots of service centers in your area, because you aren't too far from Stern Pinball.

[segagenesis1989]

It would be interesting to see the internal mechanics of the game. While watching the video I was surprised to see the game rotate. At a minimum, it's a very nice conversation piece!

[Maxxarcade]

There's not much in there really. Power supply board, CPU board, and a couple smaller boards for the motor control. Everything sits on a big turntable withing the main cabinet.

[frankallyn]

Mister Bart from the Netherlands uses

this machine as his dinner table!

[crxmen2]

diese gerät ist der hammer !! wir haben diese tisch in unsere flipperhalle :)

[NardDogz]

Wow! Weird machine.

Looks absolutely amazing for a 1978 game. I see cocktail pins for sale from time to time... usually beat up or dead.

Never a rotating one though!

[weasel2htm]

I wonder what kind of stereo Daft Punk is playing on, I hear some good bass, some nice vintage stereo???

[Maxxarcade]

It's on a Touchtunes jukebox.

[weasel2htm]

I had to do some searching on that, I'd never heard of those before, I found their youtube channel with a promo video. I find it freaking hilliarious that the audio on the promo video is muted by WMG.

/watch?v=O2oEkNtDwT0&NR=1

[Maxxarcade]

LOL, WMG even gets the big companies!

[ThisGuyFrritz]

Every once in a while I've seen pinball games that are different. I don't think I've ever seen this particular one.

I wonder if there will be a simulation of this for our PC's (as well as iMacs, iPods, PSP's, Nentedo consoles, etc.) It would be unusual to rotate the game on the display.

[JeffN727]

Wow! I've never seen anything like that before.

[wildbilltexas]

That's an awesome table. I remember playing sit down pinball games at places like Pizza Inn back in the late 70's-early 80's. But I don't remember a table that spun around like that.

[mkafirebird]

awsome and hell ya daft punk in the background nice

[amfan12]

Very cool machine.

Whats up with the tube amp project?

[Maxxarcade]

It's all done, except for the transformer covers. I hope to have another video up soon.

[jefferyb304]

Thats cool !!!