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    SNESNESCUBE64

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    21 minutes ago, SNESNESCUBE64 said:

    Thanks, but I should be good for a while. When the time comes I will source a manual, although I don't forsee myself working on any in the near future. Mostly Bally, Data East, and Williams pins for me :).

    Oh he has manuals for everything in there. If you’ve seen Harry Potter it looks like the room of requirement in there when it’s all filled with books hahaha

    SNESNESCUBE64

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    1 hour ago, SNESNESCUBE64 said:

    No doubt their stock is big. Their partnership (or ownership, not sure what the deal is) with Gottlieb is actually a source of frustration for me. They are the only source for Gottlieb manuals as Gottlieb is very litigious over the rights to the manuals. For context, most manuals are available on ipdb.org, but not Gottlieb manuals. It makes it much more difficult to service games, especially solid state ones, because of this. The only place to get them as far as I am aware is pinball resource who makes new copies for a fee. Not sure if these shinanigans are connected, but it's part of the reason of why I don't work on those machines as much.

    It actively makes my job harder and hurts people who want to keep these Gottlieb machines going. Granted they are my least favorite machines to work on due to the hardware they used (I can rant for hours about that one), but the blocking of public information is really annoying.

    Pinball resources is an interesting remnant of the past, they are more like an old catalog as you have to mail a check and order form, no online payments. I'm sure I'd use them if I needed a part I can only get through them. Glad they are still making parts though, it's good to have resources.

    If you let me know which ones you need he probably has them, I dunno if he will sell but I can take photos

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    SNESNESCUBE64

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    1 minute ago, SNESNESCUBE64 said:

    Neat. I've never ordered from Steve personally. My goto is Marco Pinball if the shop I work for on the weekend doesn't have what I need. They have been awesome. Very cool that they can make their own coils though, it is super important that folk still make em.

    He probably supplies them too. He actually bought like all of Gottliebs original machine parts to make their plastic pop up targets and stuff like that. His factory is a gold mine of parts for almost any pinball machine you can think of

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    SNESNESCUBE64

    Posted · Edited by a3quit4s

    Having the schematics makes everything so much easier to diagnose and repair. Fun fact if you ordered parts from Steve Young’s Pinball Resource his warehouse is about 5 minutes from me. I’ve been in there a bunch for parts for my High Speed. He also supplies coils and diodes and lots of other stuff to Game Room Guys and all the online shops like them. I’ve watched the guys at his warehouse make coils and other parts, it’s really cool. 

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    Gamegearguy

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    11 minutes ago, Richardhead said:

    That sucks man. I saw that thread. The man in charge definitely shouldn’t have called you out publicly like that. He just moved and I’m sure he was a bit tired from all that. 
    If what you said was worded a bit differently, things wouldn’t have gone that route. I’m sure what you said was lost in translation. 
    Maybe just take a break? I did that for a while and it did me some good.

    This place, like all Internet forums can get a little heated over stupid bullshit. 
     

    I don’t think what gloves said was rude or out of line, he simply questioned why you would act so entitled for someone just trying to help you when you are the one who asked for help. I wasn’t even mad about the comment and no one really seemed to be giving him shit about it anyways. 

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    ThePhleo

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    3 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

    Dude, instead of expecting people to compare lists, why don't you just list the entries you believe are omitted.  It'd make it far more readable, and so much easier to take into consideration.  Though considering even skimming managed to turn up one game that was not released in North America (Devil World), I'm going to presume the difference is likely all mistakes anyway.

    I just skimmed the list and saw NWC and campus challenge listed so it’s not a retail list. 677 is still the number of retail carts and technically 678 games for short order/eggs

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    MegaMan52

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    I actually took my 3 year old son to the Chuck E Cheese in Poughkeepsie last month. I was really expecting much less but he had a blast and they actually had a lot of arcade games to play. They had the little ride on rides which he really likes to. I think like an hour and a half was $25 or so which is fine by me. I did scope out the pizza people were eating but I gotta say what you got looks 10x better than the junk they were eating at mine. Neat story though, your never too old to have fun lol

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