#46 Rare TOUR of Pinball Factory ALVIN G & Company! See Mystery Castle being built! TNT Amusements
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- WOW! Filmed on Hi Band 8mm in 1993, a RARE tour of now defunct Alvin G & Company Pinball Factory while they were building Mystery Castle! Filmed during the Pinball Expo in Sept 1993 put on by Robert Berk and Michael Pacak, a rare glimpse in clear video of the complex process of building a pinball machine! PLUS, a portion of Todd Tuckey's 2 hour lecture on opening up a retail business like he did with TNT Amusements! ADDED PLUS! ORIGINAL Williams WHITEWATER drawings, whitewood, and even PHOTOS of the models for the backglass!!!
Also...watch this video--this is what I played during MY lecture about opening an arcade store!
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Just heard from Daniel Hughes who worked in Art Department of Alvin G and Company! He tells us some neat stuff about the backglass on Pistol Poker---these are his own words:
Yes we had some fun working at Alvin G. and we all thought we were going places!
I enjoyed watching these videos, almost seems like yesterday. I don't know if you were aware but I worked some of the folks who created the Pistol Poker game into the playfield art. The El Gusano (the worm) wanted poster is Wally Welch the game designer, the piano player is Kyle Johnson the music and sound designer and I am at the card table tipping my hat at the bar maid. Dan Hughes
You and your lovely wife make me happy Todd.. seeing you guys doing this kind of stuff this far back is inspirational!
Thank you...just read your comment to the Wife and she was thrilled!!
Wow it is amazing to see the amount of work it requires to build this marvelous machines !
Wow! Mystery Castle AND a Krull!! Awesome!! 1993 the year I graduated. The good ol days for pinball and everything else!!
Todd, you rock man. This was really awesome to watch. Thanks for posting.
+Ary M You're welcome!
Very good! ! I got to interview Mike Gottlieb many years later. While he was bitter over Alvin G’s demise, had they gone to market at just about any other time, they would have made it huge! Games were built very well as were the board sets. Classy family too!
Yes...it was sad...the power supply was the weak point we have found out...capacitors too large and cracking off.
Just watchin again... never gets old =)
Glad you liked it! I wonder if I have the only footage of this factory!
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
I love this video for years !! Great.
I own (nearly) all Alvin G. games . My MC is a proto (one of the first 20) so it looks like it is here in the video. There are missing some printed words on the playfield and the cabinett is black, has no sprinkles and is inside red (former Garageband cabinet?!).
Very great video !
Fascinating tour! And look at cute Pammy!
Oh wow...that's cool. What a find for a video. I got to play a Mystery Castle a few years ago at Dan's place in Pittsburg. Thanks for sharing sir.
WOWZERS! I don't understand any of this but I like it! The springs and veins of the pinball machines!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video is pure gold.
Nice. Wish I had your job Todd! U keep the pinball world running
It was really cool to see the pre-production White Water drawings, at the end of the video!
+badreality2 Just saw this comment! Thanks for the post!
We've got a Mystery Castle and love it. Even made a mod!
so few left out there!
And a year later they were gone.
Wow. thx My dream pinball. USA Football.
Looking for 2 years to get one.
Wow, this is so cool! I wonder if my Mystery Castle prototype #2 is being made in there!
holy cow, some amazing MagicTodd Material again !
+gogol1st Thanks!
Todd, are those prices still valid?
muito bom esse documentário !!!!
Wow blast from the past man, cool vid.
Riz2336 Thanks!
Who's speaking at 5:42 and at 5:48? Was that Todd or someone who worked for TNT?
+dmbjunky It was me (Todd).
I was long gone when Castle was being built. I do own a Mystery Castle back glass!! YES!!!
RARE FIND HERE! I and a few others have already left the company when this tour came through.
I was part of the that magic team 1st employees out of 15 people when the warehouse was still in its beginning stages things still being planned in design, very very small group of early employees. I was their hired 1st tech under Cedric.
Lady in white shirt frame 1:45 is Alvina (former Data East)...she was the 1st cable harness hire and future assembly leader that came from Data East, It was only her and I in that empty warehouse in the beginning.
Lady in black curly hair at frame 2:03 is Delfina (former Data East)...George Saxinger's wife
Young man in the black tshirt fram 2:32 is John (forgot his last name)
Lady in the purple blouse frame 3:04 curly hair forgot her name, she drove a van, spoke not a word of English, nice lady.
Lady in dark blouse at curly at the punching machine frame 4:37 is Bricia spoke no english, nice lady, advised her to make it in this country learn English. ..ran into her 15 years later, was a manager at Enchanted Castle and spoke fluent English! She went to school and learned. best thing she ever did for her future.
Lady in the beige blouse frame 5:11 (former Data East) nice lady forgot her name
Black man technician at frame 5:46 in the white with green pin stripe (former Data East) is Lonnie. Dont know what ever became of him.
Young man in the black T-shirt frame 6:07 again John (former Data East)
Man walking behind the tour guide black shirt and black jeans at frame 6:12 and 6:21 is Wally Sa'd (former Data East).
Spanish man to the right of Wally at frame 6:21 white shirt bald is old man Manuel (former Data East) His son also worked at Alvin G.
Spanish Mexican man technician at frame 6:48 with the black t-shirt is Ruben.
I made the spanish music for the Soccer-ball game.
Thank you SO much for all this back information for everyone to see!
If I worked there I would be the one to play or test them for 24 hours, just supply me with lots of soda!
Is that a younger Big Joe Conners?
Yes...when he was just a "kid"!
3:05 They make a cabinet out of a Soccer-Ball Cabinet, whoa!
Hey Todd, I heard that you also discovered a video of a forgotten tour of the Data East factory from 1990. Do you know when it will be uploaded?
Its on my agenda...I have so many videos to try to get up...but have to worry about the shop games going out!
11:01, Which "Time Machine" pinball are they referring to, the Zaccaria one or the Data East one?
The Data East one!
6:36 Dinosaur Eggs
yes it is! Watch this video to see one new in box I sold at a show in 2006 for $600 i believe! ruclips.net/video/W1W8eoipgUw/видео.html
Who designed the dude's mullet? ohh, Dr Dude!
KRULL!
sssontuk Great game! Rarely seen these days!
have many of these come through your shop over the years ?
I have never had a Mystery Castle!
Im still trying to figure out if there is two rom variations on that krull game because i have two games on pinmame that play a little different from one another,one has a different sound when u put the quarter in and also wont let you get to the bottom level until you earn a lit zone on one or more entries, the beginning music on the game there will not play untill you are in the bottom playfield. on the other game it sounds just like the one you have there and you always seem to have a lit lane for the bottom playfield! they only made ten prototype games that never went in production and Im wondering if the roms and rules are different on some of them!
+paul solfelt Maybe someone reading this can help!
ok!
+paul solfelt There are multiple ruleset EPROMs for this game. Since all games remained prototype staging, different EPROM sets were used for testing. There are MORE than two sets. FOUR I can recall, but all still have various small variations. What you find on the internet is not always the reality of what was designed, as the internet did not exist.
the eprom sets appear to be original from the factory though, thats interesting, multiple testing eprom sets!
Big Big Fan Wants a Gorgar for 600$ please please.. Great old vid . Tilt it!
+lewiston maineiac I am sure one is out there for you!
LMAO
I've always thought he had to use the "Alvin G" name because the "Gottlieb" name was owned by Premier Technologies.
Wow the Last Action Hero and Judge Dredd were new back then
Yes...the latest games!
Iron Maiden shirt at 6:48
Did you vend a Mystery Castle?
Ashley Holroyd Never owned one...so few made...and now they are NOT cheap!
Minute 9:05 Judge Dredd Pinball
Yes!!
You were happy for 25 years !!!! Then you got married !
Name all the pinball machines Todd N. Tuckey said
0:32 A picture of David Gottlieb and his son Alvin Gottlieb standing in front of what seems to be a rolldown game?
Yes...I see that now!
I'll buy that High Speed for $1600 and Gorgar for $600 please.
Plus tax and freight??
I suppose there are no more pinball factories right? It's all dead?
Pepper Uranus Actually, no! There are now several overseas and four here in the USA (two are very tiny).
TNT Amusements Inc Good to know
This is rather poignant. -Alvin G. himself died not all that long ago-.
Baar Bear Yes...we were sad to hear that. Please look at this video...we mention this at the 1 minute mark..also some neat facts too, in the description. ruclips.net/video/Dg-qWB_2U74/видео.html This is video #371. Todd
Back when you didn't need a college degree to pay your rent.
Thats a fact jack!
thats right!!