Oh, look. I found a quarter. I'm keeping that. I find a quarter in every machine. Thank you. Oops. That's a video. Hold on.
When that switch closes when you hit a drop target, you get this. And that's of course just me going. [music] All right. [snorts] [ __ ] We don't have solenoids.
I'm Mike Dus [music] and this is Pinball Shenanigans. [music] Yo, what is going on? It is uh like January 24th in London, Ontario, Canada, and it is cold. Feels like minus 20° C. So, I recommend staying inside. But, uh, I just met with JC over at, uh, my storage unit. He wanted to check out my Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And looks like he's probably going to end up buying that. So, that's pretty sweet. And, um, he is now on his way over to the crazy garage, and I am following him. We're going to head over there, see what's going on. I've been gone for a week and uh I know there's been some progress on things like the uh Harlem Globe Trotters 100red-year anniversary edition that is coming along. And also Kevin just bought a new toy yesterday. It is a Flash Gordon by Bali from 1980. And uh that is going to get the full treatment, playfields, cabinet, plastics, back glass, everything. And uh that's going to be John Chest's new machine. So we're going to head over there, check that out. It is currently set up. We can take a look at the condition and uh give it a play test. Apparently, it's playable. It doesn't have sound. It's got speech, so you know, it's going to need some some work. This is Flash Gordon day one. You know, give it a couple months or however long it takes and then uh we'll see what it looks like then. Anyway, meeting JC over at the Grazley garage. We'll snoop around. Hey, what's this car all about? Oh, pinball shenanigans. All right, we made it. It's a mighty fine looking hoodie you're wearing there today. JC got a box of goodies for the boys.
Yep.
Looks like he's been shoveling Jon Snow for freaking thousand hours. [snorts]
Let's see if he's in the garage. Hello.
Hey, he is in the garage. Oh, wow. Holy Harlem. What do you got over here?
This is for you.
Oh, look at this. This is uh AI generated uh me spinner decals. And who else do we got?
Oh, that's all you.
Oh, this is all me. Jesus. Rob Vieiraa.
I mean, like one strip might have been ample, but now I'm going to have to give them away to all of everybody. JC, you're going to get a strip of these.
Okay.
And look at this. This is the Kevin version.
Yeah.
Yours looks cool, man. Mine looks like a big dork. Uh Dutch uh might be actually dorkier, but uh there's that. And then is there a Julie too somewhere?
Julie has it all hers. So
Oh, I didn't get to see the Cory or the Julie ones. This is why Robier was playing with the uh the spinner decal stuffs.
Yeah.
This is the uh stuff for the Harlem. There's the logo right there.
Have a look at this.
This is beautiful. Mhm.
Did you polish up these legs yourself?
No, they're new legs.
They're new legs. Oh, okay. I love the blue leg bolts and even blue washers.
Yep.
And then the white cabinet protectors.
This is all Rob's uh idea.
Yeah, he was running it by me at first and uh you know, I was like, "Yeah, that seems pretty damn cool." But in reality and real life, it is way cooler than just a hypothetical some sketches on a on a paper, you know.
Way more.
Oh, is it a lot of uh like all this little fine lettering and stuff?
Oh, yeah. It's all extra stencils and extra everything, right?
Yeah.
To like line everything up.
Oh, you got a phone call. I'll uh pause. Okay. Yeah. So, have a look at the front here. This thing is uh amazing, dude. Checkpoint. So, we took the ball out and then like went off the corners of these lines and
Okay.
Dial in and then he made the big one for the bag.
Yeah. Check this out. Uh but look at that. Oh, that is me. Never mind. I of course I uh it like hooked on the bottom of my uh tread there and uh the whole uh rotisserie almost came with it. Okay,
I even moved out of the way. [laughter]
Of course you did. But I find a way. Yeah. Have a look at this. I love that. I mean, not really going to be able to see it so much
in a in a lineup, but it looks incredible, though.
Originally, it was going to be a position where you could see the back of it. Okay,
that was the idea, but now it's actually gonna move into a lineup. So, it's you're not gonna see it, but he's like, "You know what? F it. We'll just do it anyway."
Yeah, why not? This is a This is a oneoff one of a kind.
You probably take this to Pinist.
Oh, yeah. I wonder if he'll take it to the uh Ontario pinball show.
Oh, yeah. See all the uh painted parts here? Flipper parts. Uh that's for here. Yeah, it's coming together, man. So, uh, here you got a new toy. I
do.
Is it still set up?
It is. Sound is still screwed up.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I saw your text just as I was like getting over here um about the squawk and talk soundboard.
We can go check it out.
Yeah, let's go check it out. I mean, it'll be like playing combat last time with uh no sound. It
has some voice.
It does. Okay.
Sound. Does it say like welcome Emperor Ming or something like that? All right, have a look. JC, your new toy. Let's have a look at the before. Definitely uh like most Flash Gordens is uh pretty faded to pink, but looks like uh you're going to be busting out gold paint again, eh?
Yeah.
So, that works out. This is basically like supposed to be more like this red. So red and gold like here just on the back glass going to be like that throughout. Red, gold, and black. And
so this is JC's first time looking at this too.
So I bought,
like I said, this is going to get the full treatment. I don't know.
It's got the usual
bumps and bruises.
It's definitely better than I thought it was going to be.
Yeah. You thought it was going to be all blown out playfield. You didn't have a whole lot of photos to go on, I guess. Eh,
like none
really.
I really It didn't have any photos actually.
Oh, yeah.
It was uh
So, you saw an ad and it was kind of in the background of the ad and you ended up talking to the guy and
Yeah.
This happened. So you really had nothing to go on. It was just like going in blind as pictures, but he didn't send me.
Oh, really?
It's not bad. It's not bad. Like this area is Is it got Myar on it?
All I was told was it was well used, so I just assumed it was.
It does have wall to-all myar, I believe, because you can see a little bit of the wrinklage there. And it's kind of hard to see on this side, but uh it's definitely a good pallet to work with. Oh, yeah. You're going to get the uh the fancy soundboard for this.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Do you still need the squawk and talk board if you go with the G-Tech board?
No, but it'd be nice to like have it if borrow one if you have.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll check see if I have one. I know I have one. I just don't know if it actually works or not. So, well, let's turn it on and see what she looks like.
Yeah. The G-Tech soundboard has just got like
music,
call outs and sound effects from the movie and
just way more elaborate than just a few bleeps and bloops. All right. Well, look at that. Powers up. Track mode. Displays are all working. Are you going to get new uh LED displays for this thing?
I'm going to get the uh pin score ones.
Pin scores. Yep.
That like just like eagle can enable that,
right? Yep. [snorts] So, you don't even need to worry about any flaky displays. But, they all are looking like they're working good. Heck, I might even buy them off you if you need
to sell them cuz I I might be running low on seven digit displays. All right. Well,
I know. I know the
Give JC the honors,
but
here's the combat. I guess uh Cory's been fighting with this still. It's not quite ready yet, but uh
Getaway is gone.
Getone
and I see a lack of arcade games uh here, too. So,
they're somewhere else.
They're somewhere else. They're not gone.
They're at So,
is this new? I don't remember seeing this.
Yes,
that's freaking cool. Well, JC, why don't you try a game of uh Soundless Flash Gordon? Let's see how she plays. get an idea of uh we don't get Where's the speech call out?
It was there. I don't know if that's was he was messing around. He might have turned the volume down.
Okay. All right. Well, we don't got no speech.
We don't got no sound effects. [snorts] Pinball without that is Yeah. Just It just ain't quite the same, is it?
It's lame. [laughter]
It's pretty boring. Hey, that's good.
You can beat the sound effects.
Yeah,
there's the spinner rip.
Oh, reverse spinner.
Oh, the spinner's working.
Yeah, both spinners are Oh, almost back into the uh shooter lane for the bonus collect like functionally wise. Playing pretty good.
I know. That's why I wanted board to
Yeah. Oh man, if I got that message in time, I had already left the house. Could have popped it in. maybe got probably something more than nothing even if the board isn't working perfectly. All right. Well, ball two one ball left. Let's check the uh squawk and talk board here. Let's see what this thing looks like.
Oh my god. All right. So, we got uh all original board set here. Solenoid driver. There's the squawk and talk board. It's quite a sizable soundboard. You messed with both dials on that thing.
Yeah, I just turned them.
Yeah. Okay.
They're all
Oh, I heard something. Heard the speaker buzz. Could be old caps. Um you could kind of wiggle the wires on that connector maybe for fun. See if anything happens. And the other connector there for the uh speaker. It wants to work. Oh, I jumped right over the flipper. Oh, wait. It's not over. It's uh set for five balls. Well, I'll check my stash and uh see if I got a squawk and talk board for you. cuz you used to have speech
and that is now gone, too. All right. Well, there's Emperor Ming. And uh this is the Flash Gordon before action. Oh, yeah. There it just flashed. Okay. We messed with the speech board a little bit and we might have some speech now. Let's try this button and see what happens. 15 seconds. Flash. Miserable Earthling. 15 seconds. Try again. Earthling flash. Emperor Moon awaits.
Miserable Earthling. Lucky shocked deathling. [laughter]
Anyway, there we go. We got speech for now. Uh, okay. So, let's start a game and get a free 5,000 points for that drop target going down. But, uh, I just want to uh hear this tilt in Oh, look. I found a quarter. I'm keeping that. I find a quarter in every machine. Thank you. Other people's machines count, too. Okay. Ready? That's my reaction to stealing your quarter. [laughter] Oops, that's a video. Hold on. Okay, back at the Grazley garage just for a quick little update. What's up, boys?
I was here uh just a few days ago. Uh but I am back. I brought a squawk and talk soundboard for the Flash Gordon and maybe we can get some uh sound effects. But while here got to show off the progress of Harlem here, the uh head and body have united. Back glass is in. Displays are in. Dutch assembled those and looks like you did a mighty fine job. Wolfpack displays. We've got a topper installed and uh certificate of authenticity from Pinball Pimp. Yeah, it is coming together. And then uh we've got nice looking uh looks like freshly painted apron here with the
powder coated.
Powder coated. Oh, nice. And uh new decals there. And then uh here's the playfield. Haven't seen this in a while. Uh, I don't think the rails were installed last time we checked this out.
No rails, no plastics, no pop bumpers, no white parts.
Okay, look at this thing. That is gorgeous. Wow. It's uh very shiny, too. I mean, obviously, it's got
Oh, yeah. It's got lots of uh, you know, some layers of clear coat from CPR, but this thing is just stunning. And it's got the uh CPR bonus um plastic
extension or whatever it's called.
Upgrade plastic kit or whatever it's called.
Got this on the shooter gauge, too.
Oh, yeah. That's pretty cool. And then uh there's more for the coin door and stuff.
I see the rest of the uh
stuff here. But this thing is uh just beautiful. Look at that. new basically everything if not um ultrasonic cleaned or polished when it comes to the metals and plastics. But uh this should be going into the cabinet pretty soon by the looks of it.
Hopefully today.
Oh, today. Sweet. A couple things I glossed over that I wanted to point out is the uh cool custom shooter rod, the clear flipper buttons that are going to light up. probably red, white, or blue, I imagine. And then, of course, the logo here. I mean, I covered this in a previous uh video, but just have another look at that.
Back of the head.
Yeah. Let's see what the Oh, and I completely didn't even mention this in the last video. Your custom Grazley garage uh signs.
Those are awesome. And yeah, here is the back of the machine with the logo, the Grazley Garage seal of approval. We got to zoom out. It's a huge logo. Get it all in there. And then uh yeah, this has the upgraded uh sevendigit displays I forgot to mention. And the custom ROMs to go with it. I've got to do some wiring to enable them. And uh oh, check this out. You've got uh your spinner decals there. A little couple Easter eggs. Okay, before I go, we're going to pop in this squawk and talk board and see if we can get some sound. Who knows what ROMs are on there now. We could get like enter Xenon once we pop this in. Who knows? But let's just uh plug it in and see what happens. Okay, there's very likely uh 0% chance that this is actually going to work because there's a lot of differences between this board and this board. Uh including the fact that we're missing like half of the uh IC chips on this board. The the sound ROMs are in different location.
We're missing these chips. for missing these chips. This connector is the wrong size. This connector is the wrong size.
Yeah, there's
And I've been designated to hold this thing.
Yeah, just don't hold uh two metal things together at the same time.
All right,
consider my pants pissed.
All right, here we go. I don't think much is going to happen, but you never know. If there's uh some sparks, then I'm here to record. Here we go. Three, two, one.
Oh my god, IT'S ON FIRE. ANY capacitors exploding like my T2?
Ready? 3 2 1. [music] And we got explosions.
The light is solid. That's not
Don't know if that's good or bad.
Uh the other one didn't do that. It's supposed to blink a little bit, I think.
Is it?
Yeah.
All right. Well, let's hit uh start. Uh, I didn't have Oh, listen. I hear the speaker.
You could do that on the other one, too, though.
Yeah.
No,
I'm using your arm to shield my face.
All right.
I'm too beautiful for this [ __ ]
We tried. All right. Dutch is the greatest technician in the world. He got us some sound back. Here, playable. And uh we'll see if we can hear it. Oh boy, this is so natural. I wish you guys can see what I'm looking at right now.
It's pretty quiet, so that's why I'm down here.
Let's go.
You know what? I'm going to go. Yeah, I'll go over here.
Okay.
All right.
Hit it.
You are.
The speech is very audible. Hear that? There's sound effects.
You hear the background music.
It's very low. Ah [ __ ]
But it does exist.
You five ball.
Oh yeah, we had that issue last time. Must resolve immediately.
Oh, come on.
Sponge better.
I'm trying. Old ass shooter spring.
We have sound. Yay. It's very quiet, but it's
It's very quiet. That's better than silent pinball. All right, back at the Gracie garage with Mr. Benish here. He's come to pick up Yo come to pick up his combat machine that uh Cory's been fighting tooth and nail on and uh Dutch has been shopping up. And uh here it is. This is the finished product minus minus uh the soundboard. It's been stubborn and Cory's um been fighting with it for a bit.
Okay, so ignore the fact that I'm working on the garage floor here. What I have is a Zachariah soundboard from an electromechanical pinball machine called Combat. And this little daughter card here is uh when you get a drop target down, it's supposed to make an explosion sound. It's kind of like the whole gimmick of the game. But this daughter card will never work again. So, what I've done is I've got I've got a bridge rectifier here attached to the AC uh 25 volts AC from a Gotle Aquarius which is covered in [ __ ] Uh the bridge goes uh converts the AC to DC and it comes down here goes to the connector which then goes onto this daughter card which is powering this buck converter and dropping the voltage down to 5 volts which then powers this minuscule MP3 module that is then connected to a separate speaker. And I've recorded an explosion sound. And this is what it sounds like. So when you when that switch closes when you hit a drop target, you get this. And that's of course just me going, which is pretty hilarious. And then of course these are the sounds. Uh hang on now. Uh, one sec. Yeah, these are the sounds that the board usually makes. [laughter] So, I I hear Cory's going to come to your place at some point with the the soundboard all working and then pop it in.
Yeah, Cory's on my speed dial.
Yeah, it's on everybody's speed dial. Yeah,
but it's looking great and uh looks like it's playing great. Dutch did a mighty fine job on the uh shop job here with the LEDs and rubbers and
dialing in. Yeah, the spinners looking like it's working great. Flippers are
flipping good.
You know, Kevin uh
Kevin every once in a while can blow up a game. I think I was I think I was away like on vacation uh just recently and I was checking out like the Fork River tournament to see how many players they got and it was like 29 players and I'm like what the hell Kevin? You're like second place. What are you doing up there? All right, Benish, let's see what you got.
Oh, not much. [laughter] This is new to me this game.
Yeah, I guess this is basically cuz this is the first time it's been functional since you've owned it, right? So, this is basically the first time you've ever played combat.
This is like the fifth game I'm playing on this. Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Let's see. What is the score? So, Benish is number two. He's got you beat by like 4x there, Kevin. You've got 50. He's got 218,000. All right. What are you going for? Whole saucer here. There it is. Get in there. Nice.
It's like a bow and arrow. That's the same shot as bow and arrow. I don't know if you know that game, but
I've played it once or twice, but yeah, I don't really know it.
It's got that bonus collect saucer. Just rinse and repeat. [snorts] Uh, does this have the like plastic playfield like a lot of the other uh European games, you know?
I don't think it's plastic.
Okay. Cuz the playfield is just
beautiful.
Yep.
Not like the old Got Leaves.
Yeah. They actually [music] polyurethane them.
But like my um my inner flip Alaska has a quarter inch freaking piece of plexiglass on top of the playfield. So there's zero wear. It's like inner flip dragon too, you know.
Yep. That it's plastic playfields or at least protector. This thing's playing good. Looking good here. Let me let me have a ball here. Let me take over for Kevin's ball here. Uh Kev Kevin doing the honors. What is this? All three. Is it set for five?
No.
Set for three. Okay. So, I need a significant comeback here. I got to get like 270,000 and then create some space and distance. If I can even get a flip. Uh, this is basically my first game of combat 2 since it's been functional in my life. Don't know how many they made, but probably not a lot.
No, we're waiting for the solid state sound card, which has all the Oh, nice.
Saved it.
Can you tilt?
I did tilt. Benny's got to walk away and win. Sorry, what were you saying there? I totally got a solid state sound card. So, this EM obviously, but it's got a solid state sound card.
Yeah.
And Cory's working on that.
I can't wait to hear what that sounds like.
There it is. combat. Beautiful. Okay, I'm back at the Grazy garage yet again, and this Harlem is getting even closer to the finish line. Kevin's got the playfield installed, and um powered it on yesterday and got nothing. So, I came to see what was going on, and it appears as though that the uh the special game ROMs for the machine to enable it to go to seven digits from six uh they didn't allow the MPU to boot. So, I just swapped in the original game ROMs. And for the first time, just moments ago, this thing powered on. So, let's uh see how it looks. This is literally the first time we have seen this machine. Watch it not [clears throat] watch it not boot up now. Okay, we uh we did notice that the volume seemed to be loud by the uh the speaker kind of humming there, but uh so it's kind of max volume and it might be stuck on there for now. So, we're going to be creating a little bit of a to-do list obviously before this thing uh leaves. But here it is. Check it out. Got the white displays and uh you got the playfield fully populated now. Check out this is just looking so good. [music] Check out these spinners with the special 100th anniversary logo. And Kevin said that it's possibly tonight that the Harlem Globe Trotters are playing. Where are they playing?
I think
is it London?
Uh London maybe tomorrow night.
Okay.
Kitchener tonight maybe. I don't know.
So they are literally in town locally like Kitchener and then they're coming to London. So Rob is planning on bringing the back glass. He's got front row seats and he's hoping to get it signed by uh as many of the Globe Troters as [music] he can. This thing turned out incredible. Kevin has probably put in over a hundred hours into this thing from start to finish and uh it really shows. Look at all the uh the cool extra plastics on the coin door, the keychain. Just gorgeous. Look at this playfield. I have one more look here. The LEDs are looking great. So, we have zero idea to what degree this is functional. Like all the drop targets, pop bumpers, flippers, just everything. We don't even know this. We're going to play a quick game here. [snorts] The first game on Harlem,
dude. It is tonight.
It is tonight. No [ __ ] Harlem Globe Trotters
in Kitchener tonight.
Are in Kitchener tonight. That is amazing. So, if Rob's planning on uh bringing the back glass, well, he's coming to the London one or is he going to Kitchener tonight? tonight.
Oh, okay. Well, is he picking up the back glass then today?
No, he has got the original back glass.
Oh, he's got the OG. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, he's going to get the OG back glass in perfect condition anyway. So,
nice.
So, he has the original. Hopefully, he's going to get it all signed. And here's the all of the restored.
Okay. So, I'm going to give Kevin the camera. And we literally
have no idea what is going to happen here. It may do nothing, but
it may do nothing like it did yesterday when you turned it on and literally got nothing. So
lame.
This is a This is a significant improvement.
Well, before anything, it's going to be better than playing no sound pinball unless the last two games.
Yeah, I know, right? Flash Gordon, no sound. Combat, no sound. Uh, I'm pretty sure we're going to have the opposite problem on this one. Here we go. This may not have credits, but
two Oh, you're right. Wait, it does say three possibly. Well, let's try. [music] All right. Uh-oh. [ __ ] We don't have solenoids. [laughter] It didn't kick the ball into the shooter lane. Do we have flippers, though? We got flippers. I don't know if we have any other solenoids. Do you got to take a call? Yeah. Okay. Yep. No problem. We'll just pause for a minute. Oh, yeah. So, in other news, uh Indianapolis 500 is going to a new home and uh the new owner is coming shortly and that's what that call was about. So, oh, and in other other news, what is going to replace that Indy500 is Ray's old theater of magic. And uh it is coming to the Grazley garage. And it is a beauty. It doesn't really leave a whole lot for Kevin to do, but he's going to do it anyway cuz that's what he does. It's it's in nice shape. It's got brass everything. Playfield's great. Cabinet's great, but it's going to get the full grazy treatment either way. Okay. Uh let's uh give you that back and see uh what's going on here. We might just have a bad fuse. It's possible. We don't It could just be the trough. Hey. Oh, that's just a That was just a switch. I don't think the pop bumper popped. 1,000 points. All right. Ball two. Oh, the lux flippers died on me. No. Oh,
what have you done?
3,000 points. Okay, all three. Come on. This is where this is the big money ball here. Get in the saucer, will you? Here we go. Yes, I flipped it. There's the first spinner rip. Can't get up top with the pop bumpers. Still alive. Spin it. We're still good. We're still good. Even with one of three flippers, bounce pass. Oh, and there you have it. The first game on Harlem. There's always going to be uh a few hiccups or 10. And uh we're going to work on those and you know, try and get this thing 100%. Also, I have to wire up the displays for seven digits, but with the game ROMs not working properly, I don't know how that's going to all go, but uh stay tuned. Harlem will be 100% soon. So, combat is gone. Here's Indie 500. It used to be here and soon will be a theater of magic. Okay, here's a brief update before I wrap things up. Um, so I removed the ROMs that enabled the seven-digit scoring and I put in the original ROMs which allowed the MPU to boot up. But the reason those ROMs are not working is because you have to do some jump ring when uh doing that swap cuz these are like different chips. These are um the 2732s and they're originally 2716s or something like that. So in order to get these ROMs to work, some jump ring needs to happen on that. And also to uh add the wiring, you typically start out with this wire on pin 7, but there is something already in pin 7. So I'm not exactly sure uh what to do about this just yet. And I do have the displays all connected. So I just need to figure out what to do about that. Then do the jumpers, then install the ROMs, and then the seven digits should work. Uh, and then in other news, I did find that the Playfield fuse was blown, so I replaced that. But there's definitely some funky stuff going on. Uh, check this out. I hit the left slingshot. It does not fire, but the left pop bumper does. And right sling fires the right pop bumper. No, the middle pop bumper. Okay. And um, also this is this is the the major crutch here. If I close this switch, this solenoid is going to lock on. Watch this. This is locking on. And now I must turn off the machine. And that is probably what blew the fuse. So definitely some gremlins that have to be worked out here um before we can call this a finished product. But uh one last quick peek here at the machine. before I take off. I just think it is just stunning. It's a really truly a one-of-a-kind. These spinners are awesome. I mean, it would have been better to have um where are they? These on there for spinners, but uh we'll let this one slide. Anyway, uh I think uh some wiring needs to be sorted out before uh this game is functional cuz as soon as you even go in this saucer or this saucer, a fuse is going to blow. Anyway, Harlem Globe Trotters is playing tonight. Pretty apt timing for the 100th year anniversary one of one Harlem Globe Trotters Pinball Machine Edition. Anyway, I'm going to call this uh a wrap. This is uh been this video has been going on over the course of like three or four visits. So, I think it's time I finally pull the plug and call it an episode of the Grazley Garage.