I never thought about it, but I have played an awful lot of pinball with the glass off in my days...! A side effect of being the one fixing it I guess... I remember as a kid, breaking the corner off my playfield glass trying to slide it back in... Actually, I was lucky it was not tempered glass in that one, and it was a clean snap off... I was so upset and it wasn't like I could just get another glass easily back then... I have also had the very fine experience of picking up my playfield glass, from a leaning position on the wall, to have it suddenly totally disintegrate right in my hands, as I moved towards the machine! Thousands of little pieces everywhere, and a huge mess, but I didn't get cut at all. Just a very weird experience, which just happens sometimes for not apparent reason other then disturbing the glass which must have had some tiny defect to start the chain reaction! Ah; memories!

Very insightful Joe..! I am the field tech that has had to keep it all running on the spot, and doing it 50 years... I have seen most everything, and had to deal with it... I was on the Arcade Floor fixing games BEFORE solid state came alone, and I watched how things evolved, knowing the reasons why. All the Arcade Mechanics who were around when I was a kid starting, are long gone from Earth... Because I started at such a young age, I am still around, and carry all those years of experiences with me... When I was 15, high volume arcades loved when I fixed the games, because if I fixed something, that broke again a month later, I went further to modify it so that wouldn't happen again. I had color X Y monitors with vertical and horizontal transistors hanging out the back of the chassis on long wires, doubled and tripled I. Parallel to provide for their under rated capacities, and then if they finally failed, I could cut them off, and pop new ones on in a few minutes, instead of hours of pulling that chassis, and several times before my mods would finally blow. I adjusted timing of electro mechanical games so they played as fast or faster the solid state versions, and when you played one I modified, you knew it. Then, some one else would work in the game, and not understanding what I did, or why I did it, they would try to put it back as it was, and ruined it... I wouldn't even know until it broke again soon after, and I would tell the owners not to let anyone touch it after I went to that trouble. Often times when j HAD to create something to replace a board that was blown, no I e could ever fix it again but me... I kept them running, but then it was my responsibility... And many games I ended up buying because they had too much of me in them to let them get destroyed. It's a bond.

Hi Joe & Ron! Love tour videos. I am a longtime subscriber to your channel, & Randy's. Love the content, & inevitably with these machines like Joe Says in every episode "It's Broke!". Thanks to you, Randy, & Todd Tuckey there will be people trying to not let these classics die! Hello from Phoenix Arizona❕🔥

The ultra pinball I have in the Retro arcade also plays the 2000 version... To me, i don't like the 2000 version because there is only 1 black knight, and no later version could ever be better... Often true with any sequel of anything; you can never reach the level of the original!

@@MainStreetRANDYLAND agreed!

That's very nice of you! I do have one in the machine, so it's not necessary to waste postage money, but thank you just the same!

@MainStreetRANDYLAND Ok cool no problem!

If I take apart it is to rebuild it.

Money is only to purchase necessities, and buy happiness... My needs are simple, and what I do makes me happy... I have absolutely no desire to go on a cruise. I am also alone, and going places alone is not a necessity; when you share life with someone, there is far more reason to do things like that.