Pinball lifestyle: "The dose makes the poison"

To loosely quote Paracelcus:

"The dose makes the poison"

I might be getting close to the lethal dose of pinball... Maybe not, I have observed fellow humans with a lot more games than me. I'm safe, for now.

But I have a heck of a lot of games. A lot for the small space I live in...

Here is the latest pictorial inventory of my... I can't really say gameroom anymore. It's more like a game house.

Observe and enjoy!

Les cardiaques et les femmes enceintes sont priées d'éviter ce spectacle effrayant!

UPSTAIRS

Firecracker, a Bally game designed by Harry Williams, one of my personal favorite games

Bally Nip-It, the latest project. Tastefully modded by moi. Still fun.

Bally Surf Club bingo, with the mixer taken apart for a cleaning. I have a recurring problem with the neatsfoot oil that goes sticky. To be continued.

Williams Four Corners. Every picture tells a story. She is filled with secrets.

The ole Nishijin Super DX pachinko game. I've had this game for over 16 years.

Bally Hokus Pokus. Sadly, I don't have any room for this game at this point in time.

The Booz-Barometer. Circa 1958. A gift from my Ole Pa a long time ago.

North Star Richelieu. Bally Challenger one ball and Keeney Thriller. Future projects. Treasure Trove.

DOWNSTAIRS

Enjoy the view. I know I do.

Interflip "BAO!" Dragon, Bally "camel toe" Wizard! and Bally "Brass Bra" Lost World: my only solid state game

Bally Flip-Flop, Twin Win, Big Valley

Bally Carnival Queen Bingo, my first magic screen bingo.
Watling penny scale
Bally Super Wall Street Bingo. My first bingo machine. Pictures of the backglass of my game seen here were used with my permission in Nick Baldridge's virtual bingo.
Bally Miss Universe. Good looking game, awful gameplay.

... Bally Golden Gate and Mystic Gate Bingo

Keeney Little Buckaroo Upright

Bally bottomless hopper slot machine

Midway's Space Gun. My one and only gun game.

Midway's Table Tennis Remote Controlled wall game. The remotes are HUGE

AMI D-80 jukebox. My first restoration attempt.

THE WORKSHOP aka "B" SIDE

Projects and extra games

Bally Surf Club Bingo

Williams Spark Plugs Horsey game. Gambling machine in disguise

United's Singapore Bingo

Bally Star-Jet pinball. The first EM multiball that established the 3 ball multiball mode.

The Borg cube of extra games, projects and parts machines

Crazy!

Bally Nip-it: Desperation, the mother of invention

Here's a picture of Nip-it with two multimeters and the PF apron removed.

Let me explain a bit.

I'm play testing the game with an intermittent problem and I need to know the exact moment when the Outhole relay and the 2nd ball relay are energized. I obviously can't play the game and look at the relays at the same time. The solution: put a multimeter on each relay set on ACV.

The interplay of these two relays is critical for the proper operation of the game. The Outhole relay,  2nd ball relay and the ball trough switches affect the ball count unit stepping up and the multiball logic of the game.

I'm playing the game and paying close attention to the actuation of the aforementioned relays by way of the meters when a ball drains. All in the hope of catching the bug.

More details in a future more elaborated post.

Bally Nip It update

First Bally nip-it update:

I fabricated a "temporary" plastic that was missing. I hope to eventually find a genuine plastic but in the mean time I have something that looks OK.

Also here's a cool graffiti carved into the cabinet: "ABC Taxi ltd" pretty cool!

New arrival: 1973 Bally Nip it

Picked up a Bally Nip it. The last bally EM with zipper flippers and the last EM multiball. Best known for being featured in Happy Days.

Once I got it home I did something I rarely do anymore. I set it up to play. Usually a game just sits there a few days before I do something with it.

I had good fun playing the game in the middle of the living room. I got a large can of malty libation juice. Soaking in the new purchase that reminded me of my teenage years. Until I noticed that one of the playfield plastics was missing. Damn pinball fever! I was blind to notice the missing part when I went to look over the game at the seller's.

I quickly perused the interwebs. No luck finding nip-it plastics.