Bally Six Million Dollar Man Plays like NEW! (Dr. Dave's Pinball Restorations)

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Bally Six Million Dollar Man Plays like NEW! (Dr. Dave's Pinball Restorations)

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Жыл бұрын

HOPKINGTON, MA: Presenting a Dr. Dave mini restoration of this very nice original condition Bally Six Million Dollar Man that needed some TLC to make it back to look and play like new condition. We made it better than it was. Better...faster....stronger. =)
Rebuilt the flipper assemblies, all 3 pop bumper assemblies, cleaned and repainted the drop targets, new white silicone rubber all around and red silicone rubbers adorning the new Bally flipper bats.
Wanting to keep within budget: some warm white LEDs under the kicker assembly plastics to give more light to the flipper area and regular incandescant everwhere else. Buffed the metal u-channel securing the top of the playfield glass for high gloss reflection of the artwork of the playfield.
Added NVRAM to the original rebuilt Bally MPU, New 5 v caps to the solenoid driver board and new connectors where needed in the wiring harness as well as rebuilt the connectors on the power supply transformer board. Reflowed all header pins on the displays boards as well as all new 6 pack each to all 6 displays with new beefier 100K ohm resistors. New upgraded software that makes the specials on this game = 50,000 points instead of winning a free game all while keeping Extra balls earned still = extra ball. This configuration does not come stock on most Bally games from this era and need a software code tweak to make this happen and make the game much more fairer scoring.
Check out our podcast highliting this Bally gem here:
podbay.fm/p/the-classic-pinba...
E-mail me to inquire about pinball machine repair or restoration service or what available games we have for sale in the wide assortment in our restoration queue, contact us here:
dave@pinballdoctor.com
www.pinballdoctor.com

Пікірлер: 18

@donmorton7282 3 ай бұрын

Looks phenomenal. Great job again

@pinballdoctor 3 ай бұрын

Thankyou! This was a customer's game we restored. I liked playtesting it so much that it brought back memories of playing this title in a Ice cream shop back in the late 70's my friend Paul and I would hang out at. Excellent Ice Cream and 70's pins like Evel Kneivel and 6 Million Man. I found one for myself, actually ...it found me. A cutsomer called me and said he had one he wanted to sell. Nice shape but not working but I can take care of that. =) Picked up a new playfield for it too! Once I get caught up with customer restorations, I'll be doing one of these for me. It will be over the top like the Centaur I just restored. www.pinballdoctor.com

@donmorton7282 3 ай бұрын

That’s awesome. Can’t wait to see the progress.

@Richard-ZA01 5 ай бұрын

My most favorite pinball game ! I played this after high school.

@johnp4008 10 ай бұрын

This was the machine at my college when I started in 1984...absolutely loved that machine. Go Berry College Vikings!

@Tigerworksinc Жыл бұрын

My favorite pin ball machine of all time. I collected many road side coke bottles to turn into quarters for this machine back in the day. Would love to have one.

@pinballdoctor Жыл бұрын

I hear you! I liked this game back in the day when it first came out and then now after I restored this one, I fell in love with the hard to master game play of it so found one locally. Actually one found me via a customer phone call asking if I wanted his. =)

@abc12346038 11 ай бұрын

@@pinballdoctor, please let me know if you’re interested in selling the SMDM you recently acquired. Thx!

@pinballdoctor 11 ай бұрын

@@abc12346038 , Thankyou for the offer but I am going to restore this one for myself . Going to make a real sweet copy with a new playfield swap and all the trimmings. Will post it on my channel once complete.

@abc12346038 11 ай бұрын

@@pinballdoctor I’m sure it’ll be one really sweet game when you’re done with it!

@ScottParisi 10 ай бұрын

Really nice machine and work by your team. Been looking at a $6MM Man but think the playfield is too far gone and replacements don't seem to be overly available

@pinballdoctor 10 ай бұрын

Thankyou Scott! This and the Rolling Stones we did were so rewarding to bring back to play like new condition. =) I scored a new playfield for my 6 Million Man I will be restoring for myself down the road. So I can most likely source another for your 6 Million Man as well. =)

@MrMotorNerd 7 ай бұрын

CPR do a replacement playfield . Also you can get a hardtop which simply goes over existing playfield . I own a SMDM ..

@pinballdoctor 7 ай бұрын

Yes. I own a CPR playfield that will be going into the next one I do. @@MrMotorNerd

@andresarce8889 2 ай бұрын

En mi época de secundaria, años 90... Cuando encendía el especial de los costados y con el bloqueo arriba... Gané 10 diez juegos... Había un truco... saludos desde Chile, Latinoamérica

@pinballdoctor 2 ай бұрын

Hmmm. Interesting to hear what your trick was to rack up those 10 credits?

@bluestripetiger Жыл бұрын

The idea of this game was good but it's not executed in a way that's great, although maybe for that era it was? I would love to see a remake done in the contemporary style of the 6 million dollar man pinball. There's so much that could be done and so many moments from the classic series that could be relived as goals to achieve during the game, great sound with modern speakers plus the game could involve a video screen like so many pinballs have today.

@pinballdoctor Жыл бұрын

I'm a purist and like the charm of the action and sounds of these older games just the way they are. It's a case of we could over we should.