My parents bought one of these in early 2000s in the north of France when I was 3 or 4. I remember my family playing all night long during Christmas, every sound of this machine is printed in my head and in my heart, best memories of my childhood, thank you for your video!

I have fond memories of playing this in the arcade at DePaul University in Chicago, IL in 1988. I was dating a girl there at the time, and she and I wandered through the arcade and she said "Yoo-hoo, party animal!!!!!"

This is entertaining then or now. Very good show

First pinball I ever owned.. regretting hard I sold it for $400 in mid 90s to a cabinet maker for his kids. At the time I ddnt know how to fix them and there wasn't any online resources like great ones we have now. Thanks for the memories

I remember loving this game when I was a kid, must have been 7 or 8 the first time I played it, but I loved the music and the drums rolling when you start the game, the guy saying "How ya dooin?" etc, classic, the sounds of my childhood spent in the Aladdin's Castle arcade!

Todd, your tip to clean and adjust the pot, noted at VR1 on the sound board, just helped me recover my sound on this game! You are a credit to the Pinball hobby. Your youtube channel is always my first stop before buying any pinball machine.

Great vid Todd. First youtube vid to show and explain the infamous Bally 6803 keypad

Just fixed up two arcade cabinets and am moving on to my Party Animal. This is a very nice starting point!

hi Todd... talking about the BK, its now over that price (if in pristine condition) !!! pinball world has gone crazy latealy... :( btw, tanx for this video ;)

Thank you so much for this video. I changed the battery on mine and I thought I'm supposed to configure something since it doesn't work anymore.

I wanted to research this pin, and here you are giving a tip on a Bally volume pot, the same tip you gave me on my Speakeasy. Wow, what are the chances. Maybe I should back up and watch all your videos. Oh, by the way, great video on the Party Animal, very informative.

Loving these videos! :)

I met Carroll Spinney back in 2010 at a Comic Con. He was the performer of Big Bird & Oscar, and he sang "I Love Trash" to me in person.

Neat looking game. I was just having a discussion with someone about this particular table. Does the head on this particular game fold down? Someone told me that every Bally game after Flash Gordon has that feature. Love the videos sir. Hope to run into you at Pinfest this year.

Ha ha great video Todd!!

I found the battery in the upper right corner of the back box..so I'm no expert but it looks like it's soldered in..or is it held in by the two connections??..Should I attempt to replace it or is not needed for play..I'm gonna guess again that it's to hold the memory of the high scores??

I just bought a Party Animal..the left flipper is stuck so I'm gonna guess I need the rebuild kit with a new coil??..Also the digital display waves when I plugged it in?? I found a broke fuse holder with a 3amp fuse coming off the transformer what does it go to??..I didn't see a battery in the upper right corner but I'll look again. Any advice on this machine would be greatly appreciated

Love mine

never knew that these late 80s Bally machines had this keyboard control.

Have you guys gotten into 3d printing?

So was Party Animal the only machine that used the keypad? I don't recall ever seeing one of those in any of the games I've worked on over the years. How do you remember the specific numbers and whatnot?The game looks pretty neat

I bought this pin recently and love it, but now I’m getting check fu-1 or field fuse error, and the ball is not firing out in the shooter lane. I checked both fuses and they seem fine. I replaced the solenoid and diode to the trough fired up fine, then once again back to the same error. Have you had any errors like this before? Do you think this is opto issue? Great video by the way and any help will greatly appreciated!

Do you know if the flippers should be live before the game starts? My Party Animal is blowing the 1 Amp under board fuse when it switches on and the flippers are always live, wondering if they're causing the coils to ground and blow!? :/ Any help would be appreciated! Thanks :)

Mylar was coming up.

I say of the building with that pin ha ha!

Where Is the knocker?

cardboard plastics hmm Star Trek Transparent aluminum ? lol hey maybe they'll invent something like that :D