BOURNE, MA: Over 20 hours of restoration work went into the mini-restoration of this Wonderful System One Gottlieb Classic! This was a mini restoration in that we concentrated mainly on the high points: Repinning connectors, sourcing 3D printing of 2 connector housings going to the main board that were missing, as well as replacing part of the wire harness that was battery corrosion damaged. Blue filter backglass touch up, hot glue securing of the display glasses, playfield cleaning, custom LED blinkers for the backglass mother ship and other artwork elements; new plastic set, new pop bumper caps, buffing of all the playfield metal, new coin door inserts and red LEDs; silicone rubber kit, new incandescant bulbs for the playfield, full flipper rebuilds as well as pop bumper rebuilds rounded out this restoration.
Another great Gottlieb System 1 pinball machine from the late 70’s playing better than when it hit the arcade back in 1978, thanks to an all-in-one Pascal main board replacing all the original boards in this game. These System ones were essentially EM pinball machines converted to solid state electronics. The Pascal gets rid of all of the shoddy boards Gottlieb chose to use, and adds elements like an attract mode for the lights on the playfield (the original system ones had no attract light show, as they were off like an EM), as well as a skill-shot and a ball save, as well as extra ball stacking, among a host of other software-selectable features.
