Nice find, Mike, I never even knew about this pin. And on the backglass? Dude diving into Bond is the character Jaws from the movie Moonraker. And I said diving cuz I think they're fighting while skydiving. Very Bond.
Gottlieb actually released a standard 3 ball updated rom for this game too, one of the few games they did code revisions for! I guess back in the day there was a bunch of backlash on the time units.
It's the only double scissor flipper game ever made. I saw one of these on Craigslist and was absolutely dumbfounded when I realized it has double scissor flippers. I guess Gottlieb felt they needed to out scissor Bally. Everyone back then really felt that scissor flippers were the new hotness. To me, it just proves that there are some real sadists in the pinball design business.
I first saw double scissors on rotordave’s homebrew motorhead. I didn’t think much of it until somebody said, ‘i guess there is no cradling’. Then you realize the speed implication.
One tournament I was in, the metal guides were removed under the upper flippers on Stern Big Game making them scissory death traps! www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=249&picno=20031
I saw the add also and asked the seller if the original batteries are still in there as they may have corroded and damaged some electronic boards. Did you look for battery corrosion ?
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Thanks brother 🫶
Wow, could you imagine that barn filled with machines?! Grasley Garage part 2! LOL. Nice pickup!
Haha I like the way you think!
Great score on the James Bond. Very nice shape for a barn find.
Thanks man! Should clean up nicely!
New project. Yay! 🥳
Stay tuned! This is not the next project in the queue :)
Nice find, Mike, I never even knew about this pin. And on the backglass? Dude diving into Bond is the character Jaws from the movie Moonraker. And I said diving cuz I think they're fighting while skydiving. Very Bond.
Haha right right on. Cool to know the backstory on that 😁
Nice find for 5 hundo 🤘 Hopefully you will get the smell out. That ASTRO was cool! That was a helluva flipper gap lol
Thanks brother. I went to storage yesterday and it was still pretty funky so it might take a while to defunckify 😁
Go ahead and send me that Time Machine! Always have loved that game!
I'm stoked to get that one up and running!
Gottlieb actually released a standard 3 ball updated rom for this game too, one of the few games they did code revisions for!
I guess back in the day there was a bunch of backlash on the time units.
Oh sweet thanks for letting me know. I will definitely look into that.
It's the only double scissor flipper game ever made. I saw one of these on Craigslist and was absolutely dumbfounded when I realized it has double scissor flippers. I guess Gottlieb felt they needed to out scissor Bally. Everyone back then really felt that scissor flippers were the new hotness. To me, it just proves that there are some real sadists in the pinball design business.
Sinbad only other one I can think of offhand with double scissor game maybe it’s a Gottlieb thing 😂
I first saw double scissors on rotordave’s homebrew motorhead. I didn’t think much of it until somebody said, ‘i guess there is no cradling’. Then you realize the speed implication.
One tournament I was in, the metal guides were removed under the upper flippers on Stern Big Game making them scissory death traps! www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=249&picno=20031
If james bond needs any serious repairs, we can call it james bondo. :)
Hahahaha love it!
I saw the add also and asked the seller if the original batteries are still in there as they may have corroded and damaged some electronic boards. Did you look for battery corrosion ?
Yep the OG battery was still on there but board looked ok. You have to desolder those ones so I will be doing that this week and having a closer look!