Allright, the game has been a guest at Chrischris' place for a weeks (thanks Chris) and yesterday it arrived in Hilversum (thanks Sound & Vision for collecting it in Belgium). I picked it up today and brought it home.
And to start of, this particular machine is in superb condition, you really can't tell his age of almost 40 year!
It was dirty though,
so I first did a good clean. The following picture is only the dirt after
one swipe on the woodden frontpanel!
It looks like brown nicotine dirt of years and years of smokers playing the game.
The game has been permitted in 1978 in Charleroi:
Anyway, after the first round of cleaning, this is the result:
Nice, isn't it?
Serial number?
And although I suppose that lots of smokers have been playing the game a long time ago, the only burn spots are on a small part of the T-molding left and right, which is so little that I will not replace it. It is part of the history of the game
An inside view of the cab, game board and back of the monitor.
Inside is a regular B&W TV from the seventies, with a woodgrain front panel!
So, does the game work? I don't know yet. I first want to clean the game from the outside and inside, then I will check the wiring, voltages and other electronical stuff. And then I will do an attempt to power the game with the board connected.
Expect more pictures of this strange looking (it has pinball legs!
) yet beautiful machine in the next days.
