1979 TAHITI Bingo PInball Machine - MINT! Just Opened
indy5mike
beautiful inside and out. This is at Treasurecove with no reserve.
What will something like this bring?
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> Not a machine I want but take a look at the pics. It is absolutely
> beautiful inside and out. This is at Treasurecove with no reserve.
> What will something like this bring?
>
There was wharehouse full of these bally bingo,s nib. 3 are 4
driffrent names tahiti was the worse of the group best was dixie
land 6 cards we bought 12 of them , cost was 175 for tahiti 400 each
for dixie lands At one of the auctions in w/s there was a like new
tahiti ,I,m not sure but don,t think it did a $100 bucks
Dan Beck
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Wow, a beautiful example, but....
How in the world would you fix one of those things?! :-) Color me
intimidated by all those steppers and such!
Regards,
Dan
Chris Hibler
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> "indy5mike" <indy5m...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > Not a machine I want but take a look at the pics. It is absolutely
> > beautiful inside and out. This is at Treasurecove with no reserve.
> > What will something like this bring?
>
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> Wow, a beautiful example, but....
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> How in the world would you fix one of those things?! :-) Color me
> intimidated by all those steppers and such!
>
> Regards,
> Dan
They are the ultimate EM game Dan.
I've worked on a couple of them, lightly. I've never had to take one
from completely non-working to working.
They are an engineering marvel, mostly designed by the same genius,
Don Hooker.
--
Chris Hibler - CARGPB #31
www.Team-EM.com
http://webpages.charter.net/chibler/Pinball/index.htm
TL88427
How exactly do you play one ?
What is the strategy ?
Nudging & bumping ? or is it just hit & miss via the ball launch
"skill shot " ?
Was there any sound or chimes ?
Tom in Oh
pingeek
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Here's a great site on bingos
http://bingo.cdyn.com/
I don't think there are any chimes or bells in bingos. Lots of
chattering though, as these games are quite intricate.
Tip. If you ever buy one, make sure it is 100% complete. The lockbars
and backglasses typically are different for each machine.
By the way, that bingo for auction is quite a find. Normally, bingos
are quite rough as they mostly wind up in bars.
Pingeek
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Steve Smith, Richmond VA
Joe Grenuk
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Chris, you got that right. I ended up with a bingo once, in a deal for
20 pins. It worked, I think, but can't be sure because I was/am
clueless about how they work....multiple coins, moving screens, 8 or
10 multi-layer steppers, a Bally-type score motor 18 inches long with
a million switches, a credit wheel that goes up to 1000 or something
like that....yikes. Can you imagine getting a dead one, and getting it
back to 100%???
Jeff Lawton must be a god.
Playing it, to me, is only slightly better that playing real bingo,
and real bingo is about as fun as a slamming a car door on your
finger. But, open it up, and WOW. A bingo head makes a 4-player pin
look like a wedgehead. That game went about 400 lbs and it was all in
the head. Can you imagine sitting down to a drafting table in, say,
1965, no computers, no calculators, just a clean sheet of paper and a
nice sharp pencil, and saying "OK, I am going to design a bingo game",
and then, coming up with something like that Tahiti? I can't.
Maybe it's just me, but, I always thought that the most difficult
pinball activity of all time was when Tim Arnold built his own TKO
from spare parts and a schematic. And then, I came across that bingo I
got, and I moved Tim down to second place. Designing a bingo HAS to be
the top of the heap.
Joe
Steve
to it which requires patience and time. The only intimidating
thing is some of the misconceptions here on rgp about bingos.
Parts are easy to find....tons of bingos available for parts
dirt cheap or free.
Steve
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Joe Grenuk
sports authority, except higher.
Steve Smith, Richmond VA
play. They are a thinking man's game of skill. Unlike normal pinball
there are many ways to play a bingo with many decisions required
before during and after each game. Normal pinball has the decisions
made for you and you must follow them until you drain or tilt. There’s
a lot more to say but I’m already giving away some of the article I’m
writing for PGJ (coming soon – hopefully).
falconfixer
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> "indy5mike" <indy5m...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > Not a machine I want but take a look at the pics. It is absolutely
> > beautiful inside and out. This is at Treasurecove with no reserve.
> > What will something like this bring?
>
>
> Wow, a beautiful example, but....
>
> How in the world would you fix one of those things?! :-) Color me
> intimidated by all those steppers and such!
> Regards, Dan
That's how I felt when I opened up my first broken EM as an arcade
tech back in the mid-70's. You just use the same strategy as when you
go to a casino buffet. You have to look at it in sections and not let
the mass of stuff overwhelm you. If you had to look at all the IC
circuits on all the chips on a DMD they would be intimidating too. But
they are microscopic and hidden in a package - whereas on an EM they
are all out in the open and wires rather than semiconductors.
The idea is to start with a simple one player EM and then work your
way up. If I can figure them out then anybody can. You just have to
push your fear back into the corner of your mind.
Dave
pingeek
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> > On Apr 2, 9:26 pm, "Dan Beck" <biscuitbecks@*NOSPAM*cableone.net>
> > wrote:
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> > > "indy5mike" <indy5m...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > >news:a47db685-5c50-454c...@10g2000yqq.googlegroups.com...
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> > > > Not a machine I want but take a look at the pics. It is absolutely
> > > > beautiful inside and out. This is at Treasurecove with no reserve.
> > > > What will something like this bring?
>
> > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/1979-TAHITI-Bingo-PInball-Machine-MINT-Just-Opene...
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> > > Wow, a beautiful example, but....
>
> > > How in the world would you fix one of those things?! :-) Color me
> > > intimidated by all those steppers and such!
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Dan
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> > They are the ultimate EM game Dan.
>
> > I've worked on a couple of them, lightly. I've never had to take one
> > from completely non-working to working.
>
> > They are an engineering marvel, mostly designed by the same genius,
> > Don Hooker.
> > --
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> Chris, you got that right. I ended up with a bingo once, in a deal for
> 20 pins. It worked, I think, but can't be sure because I was/am
> clueless about how they work....multiple coins, moving screens, 8 or
> 10 multi-layer steppers, a Bally-type score motor 18 inches long with
> a million switches, a credit wheel that goes up to 1000 or something
> like that....yikes. Can you imagine getting a dead one, and getting it
> back to 100%???
>
> Jeff Lawton must be a god.
>
> Playing it, to me, is only slightly better that playing real bingo,
> and real bingo is about as fun as a slamming a car door on your
> finger. But, open it up, and WOW. A bingo head makes a 4-player pin
> look like a wedgehead. That game went about 400 lbs and it was all in
> the head. Can you imagine sitting down to a drafting table in, say,
> 1965, no computers, no calculators, just a clean sheet of paper and a
> nice sharp pencil, and saying "OK, I am going to design a bingo game",
> and then, coming up with something like that Tahiti? I can't.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but, I always thought that the most difficult
> pinball activity of all time was when Tim Arnold built his own TKO
> from spare parts and a schematic. And then, I came across that bingo I
> got, and I moved Tim down to second place. Designing a bingo HAS to be
> the top of the heap.
>
>
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Jeff Lawton told me at The York show a while back, that one of the
biggest challenges is a short or a broken wire in the head of the
game. Look at a bingo sometime and check out the wiring harness in
one of those games. He also mentioned a mixer can be tricky.
Otherwise, it's just steppers, etc., like a Bally pin. But yeah, you
have to know the rules before you can even tell if the game is working
or not.
A few years back, locally, I had the chance to get three or four
bingos for about $200 in various conditon, complete, but had no
space. I was bummed. One had the magic screen, and they were all
really neat.
Pingeek
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