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I have created this site to show what can be done with some pinball machines that were in terrible conditions and to highlight what can be achieved with some patience, some dollars and a lot of time, effort and elbow grease in the hope that others will start to realise that these old machines deserve to be in a grand state again. You can choose to look at the entire machine restore by using the buttons above and following the links on each machines main page that take you through that machines full restore process or you can just go straight to a particular restoration subject by using the buttons on the left. All of my pages have numerous images and give detailed information on how I have handled various area's of pinball restorations. I hope you can learn a tip or two from these pages and get your machines looking great again, even if you are not planning a restore and just want to look at some images of your favourite old pinball machines then I am sure you will find many photo's here to revive some old memories.
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I do this artwork purely as an interest and to restore MY OWN PINBALL MACHINES - I do not and have NEVER done this artwork for a profit I am showing these images so that other hobbyists can see what can be achieved if you wish to learn a product like Photoshop for yourselves, you can recreate art and paint stencils for YOUR OWN machines, not to recreate and sell. Do not EVER ask me for ANY copies of my files as you WILL definitely be incredibly offended by my reply.
I have used Mame since around the year 1998, today it is very well known. Mame is a games emulator that runs about 3000 games from the historic classics to more modern games of the mid-late 90's. It emulates the games extremely well, these days many people , myself included, build Mame cabinets to run all the games in. These are replica arcade game cabinets in either upright or sit down ( cocktail ) versions. To go with Mame you can also run an emulator called Daphne which emulates Dragons Lair 1 and 2, Space Ace and many other Laser games. Remember how you were amazed to see that animated game with the Knight and the dragon in the arcades back in the 80's that no-one could master, well you will find it just as bloody difficult to play today- this time it's free though ! There are also some fantastic pinball simulators available today- Visual Pinball and the recently released Future Pinball. There are hundreds of tables available. These pinball simulators are nothing like the crappy things you see on PC or Xbox type pinball games, they use images, sounds and roms from the ORIGINAL pinball table and I feel they are totally underestimated and a way to keep pinball alive for years to come. My Mame page has info on where to get all of these emulators as well as info on a few Mame cabinets that I have built and own - click on the game images above to see more about Mame.
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