What a game!

We are talking about a machine that had the first ever 2 level playfield that also had 3 ramps to shoot for to get the ball back up to the top level, this machine also had 2 or 3 ball Multi-ball modes, timed targets, as well as speech, timed Mystery Score shots, 30 seconds of madness to try and score Specials when you played 2 players or more and Magnasave.

 Did I mention it was 1980 !

So, it was May 2003 and my father in law called me to say he had seen an ad in a local paper that a guy had a Black Knight and a Firepower for sale, " are these machines any good" was his question to me, not realising then, that these machines are highly sought after classic tables these days. So within seconds of getting the number off my father in law I was talking to the seller who happened to be in the area that I was working, so naturally I got very ill all of a sudden and told the boss I had to go home and within an hour I was at the sellers home looking at 2 Black Knights!! ( I actually had a choice ! ) and the Firepower.

I gave this Black Knight the 'whole treatment' and it came back like brand spankin new.

People still find it hard to believe that I sold this machine in 2007.

My restoration story can be viewed below.

 

Here are some shots of when I first got the game, the following pages will give you a look at the restoration. The paint job wasn't too bad and the cabinet itself was in decent structural shape - but I wanted this game to be perfect

 The entry to the playfield was pretty ugly.

 Like all these old untouched games, there was just that general 'dullness' about it

The backbox had a bit of wear and tear , but I was planning to patch, smooth and decal this cabinet anyway

 The neck will eventually be patched and painted and that rust on the back metal strip removed as well.

 Perished rubbers, chipped cabinet, broken playfield bits - this restore had plenty to keep me busy for a while.

 

Want to see how it turned out - then visit the pages below

 

 

I re-made a new plastic and completely restored this playfield.

 

 

           Some would say this was INSANE - but I used decals to restore this game as opposed to re-painting the cabinet.    

 

    

  Some nice big random images of this game completed.