We Admire Stern's 1980 Flight 2000 Pinball Machine, Designed by the Legendary Harry Williams
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One of the most iconic pinball machine ever.
Yes it’s a legendary game!
One thing I really love about Ronnie’s videos is that even if you’ve never come across a particular machine in real life, … by the time you watch a complete series on a machine, you really feel like you ‘know’ it. Love the repairs, the instructions, the gameplay. It all comes together to let you come to know each machine- even if you’ve never seen one for real. That’s a major achievement in itself and makes these videos among the very best you can ever watch. Fantastic work on this Flight 2000.
Thank you Mark we appreciate you watching, we try to be thorough but usually come up short
You never come up short Ronnie. In pinball restoration, ‘perfect’ is never possible, or even desirable. Getting a machine to look good, and play good is the name of the game. You are one of the very best restorers of these machines. I can almost hear a few machines crying out “please let Ronnie restore me. Please, please.”.
That's always been a favorite of mine, I'm an old pinball player from the 70's bowling alley days. I'd be proud to own that and if anyone said a thing about it not being factory perfect, then they'd be barred from playing it!
I always liked it, I had a lot of fun playing it, just wish all the viewers would enjoy watching it!
@@LyonsArcade You can''t please everyone but I was rooting for the Blast Off! sequence to happen. Just hearing all the sounds again was cool enough though!
I love how this machine turned out. You worked your magic once again.
How is this not a TV show?! You gotta charismatic host with a sense of humor and catchphrases, and what kind of sick person doesn't love pinball. I own none but am hooked on these videos. Come on people, come on now!
I'd do a t.v. show if they filmed it all here, paid me and both my brothers in advance, and then gave us a residual income off the show everytime it aired. I still own all these videos though maybe they can use some of it (it's not high enough quality though but maybe for bits and pieces) :)
Thank you for watching man :)
Wow - Stern Flight 2000; absolutely my dream machine. Brings me back to the times 40 years ago when I used to hang around this machine day and night, spending my weekly allowance.
Thank you for watching Jan J!
Harry Williams invented the tilt when he saw a guy getting rough with one of his machines. Well this so enraged him that he immediately took the game of location and back to his shop where he hammered tiny little nails through the bottom of the cabinet so that the sharp ends were exposed . He made sure that next time someone got rough with that machine, that they got the surprise of their life and wouldn't do it again.
Thanks for sharing the Harry Williams history - that just adds to what I already thought was a great game.
Thank you David, we appreciate you watching!
Your best restoration yet Ron, that game was in awful shape and you willed back to life...nice job
This machine came back from the dead in style:)
I actually would watch 5 hours of this!!! I don't know why but I fell in love with the Flight 2000 Pins. I hope some day soon I can add one to my collection and play the heck out of it! COME ON NOW PEOPLE!
This series was the push that finally got me to start working on my Stern Galaxy that's been in storage. I haven't played it in over 20 years. Now the boards are almost ready to go back in, and I've started ordering parts for the playfield. It was a heavily played game with lots of wear just like this one was. The hard part will be dealing with the paint and finding the correct spinner.
I don't think I ever saw one of these in real life but I've fallen in love with this machine from watching this series. And yes, I could watch you play it for five hours. Great job!
Great restoration! Came out way better than I expected given the damage on the playfield. Harry Williams must have been young at heart to crank this out at his age, quite an accomplishment. Looks and plays great.
Hey Ron, the machine is awesome. You did a great job bringing it back from the pinball junkyard. The fuse replacement gave it immediate life and the sound is the "bomb". Thanks for spending all the time it needed to play as well as it does- You guys do an outstanding job and have a great store - Just ask my grandsons- They will have a blast - playing "Spaceflight 2000"--- Good Job!
Very good, I knew you'd get it going :) Have fun with it, I hope they enjoy it!!!
Nice playing, Butter Flippers! (I used to get called that a lot.) That machine turned out a lot better than I thought it would given its condition when you started.
Thank you Lurker Smith!
Hey I just want to say kudos for the fantastic job that u did in restoring Flight 2000. I'm sure that if Harry Williams was still alive, he would be truly happy and honored.
I remember when this game came out. I always enjoyed playing it.
Those magic hands working wonders as usual. Came out so good .... Looks like a lot of fun !
Good morning . Hope you had a good Christmas. Had a White one here 9 in and still falling .
Last Sunday it started out about 50 degrees and all through the day the temperature fell (which is kind of rare around here) and ended up below freezing by the end of the day, I thought we may end up with a white Christmas... I've only seen maybe 2 in my whole life (West Virginia, California, North & South Carolina).... so Christmas Eve, it was about 40... Christmas day it was about 60, and yesterday it was 70 degrees! So no white Christmas for us this year :) Merry Christmas Windios.
Again great job! The repaint is outstanding (I think the back panel looks better with the touch ups!) With age comes coolness as well as wisdom!
You did a nice job bringing this great old game back to life, it’s playing great!! Think I will go play mine 😀
Seems like a brutally hard game.
And that shot seems almost near impossible.
Great job restoring that machine. If I saw it in a store for sale and I had the $$, I would buy it!
Thanks for posting this whole vid collection. It has been fun and interesting to watch the troubleshooting and the methods you used to restore it.
Amazing job! Almost doomed pinball got a new leash of life. 👍👍👍
Now i want one !!!!
The work you did on this machine was fantastic. Such patience and skill. The result is awesome. It is beautiful!
I hope to find one of these machines to play one day. Looks like great fun and I really want that multi ball after watching you fail for an hour! 🤪
It's a really fun game, I deleted another hour of video of me also not getting the multiball, LOL
@@LyonsArcade ha!
Thank you for deleting the hour. I probably would’ve watched.
Wow, what a journey! I just went back and looked at the first video in this series. How cool that you were able to take a machine that looked like it was destined for the landfill and bring it back to a great-looking, great-playing vintage table. Respect.
Thank you Gregory, we appreciate you watching man glad you enjoyed it :) I enjoyed working on it, it was a lot of fun!
Don't part em out people!!! Fix em, restore em, sell em, keep em 🔧 🛠
that playfield looks amazing‼️®™️ 👏👏
You did an amazing restoration!!
Thank you Sarah that's very nice of you to say! See you on the next one.
While I had fun watching you play, I almost enjoyed the history lesson about the game more! Very cool information about the game and industry.
Definitely one of your best resurrecting of a machine though. Really like the way the planet on the playfield turned out. Kinda reminds me of original Star Trek.
Harry Williams really was the wizard....
Another excellent video, thanks for sharing it.
I can see now that I'da have to put this baby on my taxes after all the coins I'd have to feed it to get that full launch...
I really dig the complexity of the play on this machine...
Great job in bringing that machine back to life.
I have watched all the videos on you repairing that machine.
Would love to have it as I remember when that game out used to play it in the bowling center that I used to work at.
Hard to make some shots but a very fun game to play.
Awesome series! Thanks a bunch for taking the time to film it!
Incredible work. We LOVE the work you do. Keep the videos coming. We can't get enough. Nicely done.
Great restoration from how it came in. I'm gonna play the PC version of this table later tonight I think
A fantastic job! All of the hard work paid off.
Find the guy who parted this out and shake him till he tilts! What a game!
Another beauty back to life great series Ron
Wow great job!! The sounds remind me of Omega Race. My brother had a 70's Pinball Future Spa, I lived that game.
We did a series on Future Spa awhile back, I agree it's a really cool game. Has a nice look to it.
@@LyonsArcade Yes I watched that. It always made us laugh as my Uncle looked like the guy in the water perving over the girl taking a shower.
Absolutely fantastic Ronnie amazing job.
Now I want one, No, I NEED One
Thank You Ron :)
I played one last night. And when there were some not-quite-right things I thought about this channel. lol. Yeah, it's a BIG pinball machine.
There were some other old school (and new) machines there. Gorgon, Pinbot, Flash Gordon and many others.
The whole thing is no matter what you do people aren't pleased, you'd probably find something you didn't like about this one too if you played it. Pinball is just really hard to make people happy with, I frankly am getting to the point I can't stand the pinball machines. No matter how nice you get them somebody wants to complain about a light or the flipper isn't right or whatever, just makes it a nightmare to operate. You get very little of that problem with the arcade games and jukeboxes. Everytime somebody comes in my store that's played games on location they complain that the other location (wherever it is) doesn't keep the pinball machines brand new and working perfectly... nobody appreciates any of the locations, interesting to observe!
@@LyonsArcade I wasn't complaining. I should have worded that better. I totally get things can go wrong on machines. The point I was trying to make is after watching so many of your videos, which are a blast to watch people (lol), that I was noticing the same sort of things you do when going thru things.
The place I went to has like 100 pinball machines and a ton of video games. They're all on freeplay but you pay $11 to get it.
Totally love your vids and you do some fantastic work. It's really fun watching you go thru the schematics to show how these things work (or not).
Thank you Ron for a wonderful set of videos of this great pinball over December, fantastic christmas present off you for us.
Love it,one by one you are helping me relive my youth love it,thanx for all the hard work.
Great job! Looks fantastic!
Have you ever worked on a Theatre of Magic pinball machine?
I haven't but that would be a really cool one.
The gameplay is amazing on this one and so too is the sound…..cheers
Howdy Joe! Merry Xmas and happy new year! Thank you for the video.
First - great restore! I watch all the videos and that may be the worst playfield I've seen you do. Now I want one of those - that is a cool machine. Second - the balance of making it presentable and sellable for a profit can't be overstated.. that's tough.. ps. Got me a T-shirt for Christmas too. thanks!
You should get one for your self you look right at home playing lol
This is one that I know only through simulation. That unreasonably complicated ball lock thing at upper left is so cool.
I had no idea Harry Williams himself designed this one. It's really fun.
Like Firepower, this one makes you WORK for multiball. But it's frustrating that there's no lane-change feature on the rollovers--were there patent issues with that after Steve Ritchie and Eugene Jarvis dreamed it up?
Great job again Ron 😁 I have a trick that might help with your repainting text. Inkjet Print it in reverse on a wax paper like the backing for sticky labels. The ink stays wet and transfers when you press it on wood. I’m not sure if it would work on playfields but might be worth a try
I noticed that the bonus multiplier was being kept between balls and wondered if that was how it was supposed to work (I don't think I've ever seen that before), so I looked in the manual and it turns out it's a switch setting (switch #30) to either hold the multiplier or reset it for each ball -- cool!
57 minutes in and no-multi-ball yet, fingers crossed!
The bonus multiplier memory is a dip switch setting. So it's just set to remember it between balls.....
@@johnbos4637 Yes, that's what I said, I even pointed out that it's switch #30.
Great pin, and great video's... thanks again! And including the history behind the game(and the man)...Terrific!!!
I like the gameplay of Flight 2000 it has a lot going on. Plus it's hard.
Fantastic job, it turned out great! And looks like a really fun machine to play!
Looking pretty darn good compared to when I saw it few months back. I remember looking at it and thinking that it was one trashed machine and didn't give it a lot of hope of turning out good. There is a chance I'll be going right by Rock Hill this week so are you guys open normal hours during this holiday week? If I have the time I'd detour and visit again. And is that machine still there or is someone already enjoying it in their home?
It turned out great Ron. Well done!
Great series Ron, way to get the game some new life!!
Awesome looking game. Thanks for the vid!!! :)
Thank you for information
I've been following your channel for a while, and this has definitely been my favorite solid-state restoration. Awesome to see how you brought it back to life. 3 thumbs up!
Realy cool game thanks for sharing
Very cool game. 👍👍
Great series !!!!
Tnx Ron !
It doesn’t look pretty good it looks fantastic all ready to give someone a great time and a huge smile
Another one back from the dead.
I guess the flipper position as shown in the illustrations is to give you more chance of recovering from the center drain. If you get a deflection from the center pin (Kirk post) you have a better chance of getting a flipper to it.
Seems like the machine was tilted to the left slightly. Does impact gameplay enough to make that multiball shot harder than it should be. Thanks for playing the machine though. A great game overall and one that I can only play with Visual Pinball. :D
Oh it probably was, anything else you noticed I didn't do right?
One of the ones I enjoyed playing was Doctor Who
Did an awesome job repainting the playfield.
He didn't show the repeating of it.
Wouldn't be able to tell if it was repainted.
What an amazing pinball machine revival! Great work as usual. Just out of curiosity, have you ever tried using a label printer for the playfield. I am working on a Pat Hand, and thinking about printing black letters on clear tape, and then clear coating over it.
I've never tried it but it should work. I usually just paint them by hand (or leave them off) because time is a factor here since i'm charging the customer for it. The font will probably be different but that's not a big deal, good luck with it!
Stern the Godfather of pinball, just like Doyle Brunson's the godfather of poker ‼️®™️
You are getting the free game sound at strange times.
Bill your only comment was to say something's wrong. Why do you do that? Do you do that with your wife too?
Make a five hour ASMR of this game without talking, just the game sounds and no other lights on. It will get millions of views
All the replies will be "Lightbulb's not working.". "flippers weak."..... "I'm better at playing it than you...." Human beings will screw up anything good, they can't help but be negative.
@@LyonsArcade That's the nature of the internet. Never feed the trolls and don't let them live under your bridge.
Working on 3 Bally EM machines right now. Score reel numbers are pretty resilient on these however what is your opinion on clear coating the reels to preserve the numbers and so they can be cleaned in the future?
I personally wouldn't do it just because I wouldn't think it'd be necessary, but there's nothing wrong with doing it. If they've been fine for 50 years I'd just leave 'em :) Thanks for watching FireMedicJM!
@@LyonsArcade Thanks for the reply...Your are welcome! Wouldn't be able to work on these if it hadn't been for your excellent videos!
I love the work you did Ron! Especially the paint job...but I do have a question...why not use decals for the bonus numbers and text? I know that some folks make them but maybe they are too troublesome or hard to use and get right? Just curious...
its just faster and easier to paint it, also it may affect how the ball rolls if you have a bunch of decals on playfield
Hope this game wont be to expensive when its up forsale on your website.. I want to buy it.
JOE CLASSIC, This Sterns Flight 2000 has a game code in the ROMs for the drop targets that has some type of memory and resetting the drop targets that most or other pinball games don't do? The drop targets have some type of memory and resetting program scheme it seems that I haven't seen other pinball games do, is that true?
How would I find a list of early to late 70's Stern games?
With both pinball and arcade.
With photos attached hopefully.
I've tried the internet pinball database and the other one I can't think of the name..
All I'm getting is the latest Stern games.
Also drawing a blank on Google searching.
I'm trying to compile a list on the games I've played. Compared to the ones I haven't.
Just so if I find one I haven't played out in the wild. And I can put a dollar or quarter in it so I can play it.
Go to IPDB and type in Flight 2000, when it comes up, click on the manufacturer name which will be Stern Electronics not Stern Pinball, that will list them all.
I'll give it a try. Thanks.
If the flippers were hanging down a bit, it may make it easier for the post to bounce the ball back up onto the flipper. More room for it to go down, but also more room for it to go back up.
Just a thought that went through my head. Pinball is designed to make money, so there are always going to be those lines that just lose it. Deal with it people :) lol.
Oh and btw, the price I paid for the Flight 2000 that I had back in 1992, 50.00. Yup I paid 50 for it and couldn't believe the incredible deal that I got. Good thing that I did get it, because the bar that I bought it from , burned down about a month later
Good job fixing a parted out model...now You'll have to do one that's just an empty cabinet....
Great Videos but please can you start numbering the videos as it's a struggle to watch you videos in the order you made them with a number after the title it would be so much easier many thanks keep making the videos Watching all the way from West Yorkshire ,England👍
Thank you for watching Simon... if you click on our channel, the videos are always in order, so you can tell which one is first, and next, etc. The problem with putting a number in the title is you get less people watching it, because they feel like they didn't see the rest of the series. So If I put this video is 5/9 or whatever, a lot of people don't watch it because they didn't see the others and don't have the time to watch them all. If I don't put a number, they feel it's a standalone video that can be watched without having to watch the other 8 videos or whatever... I try to make each video where you don't need to see the other ones if you don't have time... but if you go to our channel (click our name) we always upload the videos in order until we're done with that game, then move onto the next one. We appreciate you watching us in West Yorkshire!
Silly rabbit, numbers are for drop targets !
I've seen the 30's and 40's ball machines. Without the flippers bumpers and what we know now as pinball machines.
Those early ones kind of remind me more like pachinko machines..
And he seem to play like pachinko machines. so I'm wondering if that's the reason why they considered them gambling devices.
Which is really kind of funny because you can still bet on pinball machines up today.
If I can beat your score or you can be mine who wins the pot?
So glad they didn't realize that.
On flight 2000 right now 😂 but a real airplane
Most solid state machines will, after a length of ball play with no scoring, presume a stuck ball and start cycling drop targets and other mechanicals to free the ball without the user having to tilt the machine. Of course, that may not be the case on such an early machine.
And stern is the only one who still around. And still making pinball machines.
All the other companies like Williams data East gottlieb Sega all fell by the wayside.
Which is sad but new companies are popping up. Like Jersey Jack Chicago game company spooky and American pinball.
And starting to hold their own.
And a 10k new Stern pinball comes with a whole 60 day warranty. Total joke.
Well if you can get that steaming heap looking and running that good I guess i have no excuse to get my F2K fixed up and running.
Skip the story? The story is the best part! C'mon people....
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Hello Lil Everette, did you have a good Christmas?
@@LyonsArcade Yes
One woman and three men? That's the wrong ratio to save a species when your planet is exploding… Other than that one minor "flaw" it's a great game*. Thanks for saving it.
* That's a joke, come on people! People? Come… come! People… Come on people.
You know what they say about Women (escape pod) drivers?
Come on people!!!
Come on...
I kid...I kid...
Oh, BTW: I got he Engineer Solder Sucker you've mentioned several times and recommended -- if it sucks (or is that, if it doesn't suck?) Ima gonna rage-quit and unsubscribe from your channel my pretty, and you're little dog's channel too! Nah, I can't stay mad at you… plus, I'm sure it will work great.
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
You only need 1x, 2x,4x and 8x multipliers in order to achieve all 1 to 15 multipliers. So wasteful.