lets see ..... Berzerk... Defender...Dynamite(one of the first electronic pinball games)... Williams flash (first talking pinball game) and fireball (also a pinball)

Hence ... Pinball Joe

Thanks!!!

Pinball Joe

looks like this old dog did learn a new trick ... THANKS to all...... now I need to keep my wife away from this site..... she has been trying to teach me how to take the garbage out for 35 years to no avail

Pinball Joe

P.S.  looks like I will be building a cabinet soon that I can tilt 90 degrees... more questions to come 

Thanks for the info.........  ok another question...?....?.... how do you add buttons for different functions (shot, jump, warp) and what is done about monitor placement (portrait or landscape)

ok that was a big help.... next I question.... can I burn roms from mame???

I wish jamma was around while I was into the business... would of saved me big time with conversions.

How did the big guys (eg Midway, Taito etc ) agree on jamma?  in my time the big guys tried to sue anyone who put a different game into there boxes (like putting DK into a frogger cabinet).

Pinball Joe

Thanks   it has the edge connector so it looks like I will be shopping for a DK and a  DK3 board

Pinball Joe

ok...  I have been a pinball tech before videos were around and all there was were em machines. I was around when "PONG" came around and when Williams came out with the first talking pinball machine.

YES I'M OLD!!!

I am becoming interested in my "Roots" and looking to collect machines.

I need a little help 

WHAT  THE F*** IS Jamma Arcade Game system and mame system?

I tried looking for info but I either get super simple or way over my head.

Thanks 
Pinball Joe

The speed difference could be a mod kit that was installed, check to see if there is wires on the main board where they don't belong. one of the biggest things was to replace the clock circuit.

Pinball Joe

Never seen the red tent system but I have had my fill on cocktail tables. The earliest table I remember was the Space Invaders Table.

Pinball Joe

Hi

I have a DK Jr cocktail table and would like to know what other boards I can use to switch out with my board. Don't get me wrong.. I love my DK Jr but my family and I are a little board with it. This system is before "MAME" and in my day when I changed the main board  I needed to rewire the whole cabinet (also known as a conversion) from the main board connector back (except for Pac Man changed to Popeye man etc).

Thanks
Pinball Joe

Do do I... really miss the EM machines. 

Hi -
I am an old time pinball tech that started with electro-mech machines. I watched the industry go from relays (bowlers) to electronic pinball (Dynamite) then Pong, Space Invaders , Dragon's Lair, Pac Man and was into it heavy till about mid 80,s when I started with computers.

The brands that I have worked on was Bally, Williams, Stern, Gottlieb, Midway and lets not forget the jukeboxes Seaburg, Rowe AMI, Rockola, Wurlitzer  and many others.

I am getting back into arcades as a hobby as I just picked up a DK JR cocktail table that I am fixing (need a coin box for it).

Thanks for looking
Pinball Joe