| Made by Stern, 1978. I played this pin
for the first time at the 7th
Annual White Rose Gameroom show in York, PA in 2003.
There was a working one inside the convention hall, but
also a broken one, which I bought in the flea market area
as a last minute purchase before I hit the road for home
on Saturday afternoon. This is an early solid state pin,
and one of the few that has a bell chime assembly inside
the cabinet as opposed to solid state pins of this era
from other manufacturers like Williams and Bally, that
used sound boards to make electronic chimes and early
videogame sounds. When I got this pin, the MPU had some
corrosion, and roms with bent legs, all that good stuff.
I ordered my first Ultimate MPU, from Alltek Systems.
I got the board on a Friday, installed it, fired up the
pin, and it's worked great ever since, minus the right
sling and a few lamps, which is not MPU related. This was also the second pin playfield which I used Novus 2 to clean. Fun Fest was the first pin I tried it on. Before, I was using Johnson's Paste Wax. It's ok, but you don't get that mirrorlike shine. Same deal for the plastics too. You can even use Novus 2 to remove dirt from rubber rings. You can get more info about this pin at the Internet Pinball Database. I sold this pin on Ebay in August, 2004 to help pay for my Cyclone pin, which I got not too long after Stars went out the door. |
Download sound samples at the Internet Pinball Database
SOUNDS (to save a sample, right click, save target as, and save it on your desktop, etc.)
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The two drop target banks. Notice the brand new red star target, left center. You can get new drop targets at Pinball Resource for $4 each as of June 04. Eventually, all these drop targets will be replaced. |
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Stars lit up. Got a bit of a reflection on the left. |
All playfield bulbs replaced. |
A closeup of the left spinner lane. |
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As I mentioned, an EM chime assembly, instead of a sound board. |
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New shooter spring, polished shooter rod. The shooter housing has never been reproduced, so I had to settle for the original one, which didn't clean up too bad. |
Left side still kinda grubby. |
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