1980 Stern Cheetah pinball machine

Here's the classic Stern pinball machine "Cheetah". This is a fantastic game with lots of great shots and excellent sound. The 3 spinners, 3-bank drop target grid and 5-bank drop target sweep shot off the upper flipper make this game extremely fun. The spinners spin forever and the shot up the left lane to the top of the playfield is very challenging and satisfying when achieved.

Cheetah was designed by Harry Williams in 1980 - the year most of my favorite games were released.

This example needs lots of cosmetic restoration on the playfield, but I finally managed to get it working well enough to take a video. Sorry for the sideways angle. I'm sure I'll shoot a better video when the restoration is complete.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Stern
• pinball
• williams
• gottlieb
• 1980
• classic
• arcade
• cheetah
• quicksilver
• star gazer
• big game
• flight 2000
• seawitch

[GandSAfan]

I vividly remember this game and loved playing it! But the ones I've seen had the black/yellow/green cabinets, and somehow the sounds were of a higher pitch than the one you've got.

I've also have a fascination by the artwork of a machine, as well as of the game itself and of its internal mechanics.

[cookepinball]

@GandSAfan The sound on this particular machine is different than any other Cheetah I've seen/heard as well. I dumped the roms and installed them on a different board, but the sounds were different. It seems as though there's something about the combination of the original roms and the original MPU that make the sound unique to this Cheetah. I prefer the sounds on this machine over the "usual" sound.

[rollergoalie16]

Where did you get this pin? Most if not all Cheetah pins i've seen over the years have a green cabinet, not blue. Did you repaint/restencil it?

[cookepinball]

@rollergoalie16: Cheetah was released with both a black/yellow/green cabinet and a blue/yellow/black cabinet. My machine has not been restenciled. Apparently the blue cabinet is much more rare than the black cabinet. I should probably add some pics of my machine to the IPDB.

[GandSAfan]

@cookepinballI like the sound of yours, it's really cool!

[sergioluna80s]

i love this pinball put more videos please and put all volumen up !!! lovely pinball machine !

[sergioluna80s]

one of my favorites can put more videos of this machine ?? i love it !

[luckas30]

Nic pin! It looks really fun :)