The Allentown Pinball Wizards Convention 2005

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I taped two seminars at the show.  One was "Buying and selling on the internet." The other was a Gottlieb solid state seminar.

Sound check.

Notice the laptop with a cable going to the MPU inside this Haunted House game.  Some things demonstrated during this seminar included diagnostics and modifying code using a laptop.

I bought many parts from Pinball Resource this year. 

No shortage of parts here.

 

This Spy Hunter pin and this juke were for sale in the corner by Pinball Resource's booth.

"Pioneer Microsystems" had brand new 6 digit displays were for sale. The display color is red, as seen in the first player and credit/match displays. Click on the pic to see this better.

 

It's after 4 pm at this point, and the games are starting to go out the door.

After the seminars, it was time to check out a wide assortment of pins, including some I played for the first time here, like this Williams 1979 Stellar Wars pin.

A classic Bally 1980 Space Invaders pin was available to play, and was quite popular at the show.

John Patterson always brings classic EMs to both Allentown and The York Show. It was a real treat to play a rare 1961 Williams "Space Ship."  The 1970 Bally "Big Valley" pin next to it is one of the few Bally EMs featuring multiball.

Time Warp and Disco Fever are the only pins that featured banana flippers.  

Time Warp was being played constantly, but next to it was my favorite, Gorgar.

Here's me enjoying a classic Gottlieb EM.

Here's another King Pin.  Looks like somebody got creative when they repainted it. Ouch!

 

 

Medieval Madness was quite popular, but I preferred a rare Bally Cosmos EM to the left.

  This Visual Pinball pin was played constantly.

There's a monitor in the head to display the flyers, and a monitor in the cabinet to simulate a pinball playfield.

This Williams 1971 Love Bug pin was one of my favorites at the show.  

This is where I played Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man for the first time since playing it on location in the arcade at "Grossinger's," a long gone Catskills NY area resort.

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