Silverball Restorations – Pinball and Arcade Restorations

Last month, out in Golden, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown was held where tons of games were put on free play, a tournament was ran, and tons of people gathered to swap stories, games, and parts. It was a great experience for all who went, despite some turbulent weather. I took out my Williams Indiana Jones to sell, as well as a Judge Dredd that I was delivering as a favor for a local collector. On the way home I brought back a Revenge From Mars, Guns N’ Roses, Funhouse, and Dr. Who; but only the Revenge was for me to keep. All in all, it was a fantastic trip. Here is some footage from the show.

Here’s some video from a test location. Software is version 0.5, so it’s quite incomplete at this point, but it’s looking pretty good.

An RGP member posted some impressions of his time with Iron Man, the next pinball machine coming from Stern. It was a test location game with incomplete software, but he seems to have had a favorable experience overall. Here are some of his posts.

I just happened to be eating lunch at GW and Pat Powers shows up with
a brand new IRON MAN.  He set up the game and I got to play first.
Software is 0.5

Art package is great

Audio was incomplete but the sounds and music that were there is
AWESOME.  Lots of cool sound effects.  Neat sound for the tilt
warning.  Some new sounds when putting you name in for the high
score.  NO AC/DC or Sabith [sic] that i heard.

There are 2 magnets in the game.  One for Iron Monger and one for
whiplash.  Iron monger is a cool bash toy.  Definetly needs a LED mod
for his chest.  The war machine kick back is like the one in JP FAST.
Cool left orbit shot.
3 multi balls so far.  Monger, War machine and Whiplash.

Good flow in the game with the orbit shots and ramps.  However if you
miss thoses shots you will pay the price by hitting the Drone stand up
targets.  The bounce the ball right back at you like in POTC.

The magnet become active when Iron Monger lifts from the playfieild.
You riase him by hitting orbit shots and the up the middle shot.  The
ball was not held in the multi ball that I had however it grabs the
ball while bashing the monger and flings it back at you, FAST…

I have not played AP [Austin Powers] but the monger comes up fast.  He also has 2
positions.  He comes up half way to bash his sholders.  and all the
way up to bash his knees or nards.  Pat told me there are 3 optos that
register hits, one for each sholder and one for the knees.  monger is
plastic.  however Pats says they tested the heck out of it.

DMD stuff is way early but it was a mix of Movie and animation.  One
cool thing in the DMD was when you make an orbit or ramp you see iron
flying with some cool sounds.

[speaking of the Iron Monger piece]

Its a nice piece of engineering.  He is kind of on a Flat metal piece
sort of on a pivot spring thing in the middle.  Hard to explain but it
felt sturdy when I was messing with it.

More impressions should star popping up all over RGP and forums soon as more test locations are set up and the machine makes its way to the pinball shows and expos.