Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations.
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Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations. The idea was that you could have an extra playfield, that you just quickly swapped out at the location so you could clean and repair the old one at the privacy of your shop without a nosy drunk giving you their repair advice. Thanks to this, you can literally disconnect and remove the playfield in seconds, a thing that in many other platform takes forever and needs help to lift the playfield.
It does not have the prop rod like virtually every previous machine ever had, but the playfield rails are at the very back, so when you lean it against the backbox, everything is nicely at your reach. The 1/3 pulled out position is also there for those of us who prefer to do flipper rebuilds that way. One fun detail is that you can leave the balls in the game, there's a flap that closes the ball trough when the playfield is in upright position.
#pinball #arcade #repair #retrotech #mildlyinteresting
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Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations. The idea was that you could have an extra playfield, that you just quickly swapped out at the location so you could clean and repair the old one at the privacy of your shop without a nosy drunk giving you their repair advice. Thanks to this, you can literally disconnect and remove the playfield in seconds, a thing that in many other platform takes forever and needs help to lift the playfield.
It does not have the prop rod like virtually every previous machine ever had, but the playfield rails are at the very back, so when you lean it against the backbox, everything is nicely at your reach. The 1/3 pulled out position is also there for those of us who prefer to do flipper rebuilds that way. One fun detail is that you can leave the balls in the game, there's a flap that closes the ball trough when the playfield is in upright position.
#pinball #arcade #repair #retrotech #mildlyinteresting
@apzpins Did Williams sell playfields separately, or would an operator have to keep a whole game as spare?
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@apzpins Did Williams sell playfields separately, or would an operator have to keep a whole game as spare?
@kbob They did sell just the playfields. The coolest part was that you could buy other game's playfield and basically convert a game on location by just changing the software, translite and the playfield. The cabinets weren't meant to have game specific art, just the Pinball 2000 logo.
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Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations. The idea was that you could have an extra playfield, that you just quickly swapped out at the location so you could clean and repair the old one at the privacy of your shop without a nosy drunk giving you their repair advice. Thanks to this, you can literally disconnect and remove the playfield in seconds, a thing that in many other platform takes forever and needs help to lift the playfield.
It does not have the prop rod like virtually every previous machine ever had, but the playfield rails are at the very back, so when you lean it against the backbox, everything is nicely at your reach. The 1/3 pulled out position is also there for those of us who prefer to do flipper rebuilds that way. One fun detail is that you can leave the balls in the game, there's a flap that closes the ball trough when the playfield is in upright position.
#pinball #arcade #repair #retrotech #mildlyinteresting
@apzpins These are so fun to follow, thanks for posting!
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Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations. The idea was that you could have an extra playfield, that you just quickly swapped out at the location so you could clean and repair the old one at the privacy of your shop without a nosy drunk giving you their repair advice. Thanks to this, you can literally disconnect and remove the playfield in seconds, a thing that in many other platform takes forever and needs help to lift the playfield.
It does not have the prop rod like virtually every previous machine ever had, but the playfield rails are at the very back, so when you lean it against the backbox, everything is nicely at your reach. The 1/3 pulled out position is also there for those of us who prefer to do flipper rebuilds that way. One fun detail is that you can leave the balls in the game, there's a flap that closes the ball trough when the playfield is in upright position.
#pinball #arcade #repair #retrotech #mildlyinteresting
@apzpins all well and good, But,
* Diagnostics menu is visible without crouching, the right way up, and the right way round
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* playfield is accessible.
~~~you may choose only 1, good luck~~~
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@apzpins all well and good, But,
* Diagnostics menu is visible without crouching, the right way up, and the right way round
- OR -
* playfield is accessible.
~~~you may choose only 1, good luck~~~
@ifixcoinops The cabinet's awkwardness sure makes it interesting at times, but for the most cases where the playfield is up, I want to either debug switches or solenoids. I do it the same way as with WPC - blindly as I'd have to take a peek behind the playfield in that case too.
But the display issue aside, everything is as with a WPC game, except upgraded in more or less meaningful ways.
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Pinball 2000 was Williams' last platform and in a lot of ways it was the culmination of every possible quality of life improvement they had come up with the previous generations. The idea was that you could have an extra playfield, that you just quickly swapped out at the location so you could clean and repair the old one at the privacy of your shop without a nosy drunk giving you their repair advice. Thanks to this, you can literally disconnect and remove the playfield in seconds, a thing that in many other platform takes forever and needs help to lift the playfield.
It does not have the prop rod like virtually every previous machine ever had, but the playfield rails are at the very back, so when you lean it against the backbox, everything is nicely at your reach. The 1/3 pulled out position is also there for those of us who prefer to do flipper rebuilds that way. One fun detail is that you can leave the balls in the game, there's a flap that closes the ball trough when the playfield is in upright position.
#pinball #arcade #repair #retrotech #mildlyinteresting
@apzpins I didn’t knew the game hat an auto close for the ball trough, could’ve used that many times.
*insert sound of ball falling into the cabinet here*
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@apzpins I didn’t knew the game hat an auto close for the ball trough, could’ve used that many times.
*insert sound of ball falling into the cabinet here*
@boink The sound triggers me every time, except they stay in there. The flap can be retrofitted to most WPCs.
