Terry DeZwarte, of www.pinballlife.com and dayonepinball.com fame, has recreated the 1934 Pacific Amusement Co (PAMCO) game Contact Master as Scoregasm Master.
Scoregasm Master retains the gameplay and features of the 1930s game, but adds beautiful new artwork, a great cabinet (with wooden legs!), and some minor solid state changes.
It is great to see the great gameplay of the 30s pingames return with Scoregasm Master.
Unfortunately, the first 15(ish) minutes of the audio are a little rough. Stick with it, good stuff! We discuss some of the differences between this modern game and the original, the return of the pedastal-style tilt mechanism, reliability, scoring techniques and the open source nature of the game.
If you would like to purchase a Scoregasm Master, contact terry@pinballlife.com - these are an incredibly limited quantity, and likely no more will be made!
For those attending the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown next week, there will be a Scoregasm Master at the show - check it out!
Taylor Reese, a local collector and one of the hosts of the One and Done Pinball Podcast comes on and I try to convince him to pick up an EM flipper game.
Taylor provides a service called Reese Rails, where he manufactures new oak playfield rails. You can find him on Facebook under Reese Rails, or message him on pinside.com at TaylorVA to get the conversation started. You can see some of his excellent work on the Oak Replacement Playfield Rails thread on pinside at https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/oak-replacement-playfield-rails-wh2o-and-taf-ready-to-ship-or-york
He also is very active on Instagram as @richmondpinball, and also is one of the members/league runners of the River City Flippers. You can see league happenings at richmondpinball.org
You can also hear his thoughts on Wizard of Oz on the latest Pinball Podcast, episode 56 - http://www.thepinballpodcast.com/2015/05/26/episode-56-ding-dongle-the-wizard-is-dead
Older games (from the 30s-40s-50s) used coin slides instead of gravity-fed coin slots. This episode explains how to manipulate them, and remove and clean them. I also discuss some of the downsides to coin slides.
How to clean and care for your score reels. Note that this is only my method, but by following these steps, I've never had an issue! Last in my series of 6 episodes on score reels.
Some score reels have PCBs attached - what do they do? Why would a game with mechanical scoring need a circuit board? Find out here! Episode 5 in a series on score reels.
Some of the differences between various makes and models of score reels. Gottlieb Decagons in various formations, and other oddities. Episode 4 in a series on score reels.
Episode 3 in a series on score reels. What are the pieces that actually hold a score reel together? How do they work together and change state?
How do score reels function? Pt. 2 in a series on score reels. As a continuous stepper with pictures instead of rivets!
What is a score reel? This and other questions will be answered. Score reels were first used in the 1950s, and continued to be used through most of the 1970s.
Early pinball machines from the 1930s, all the way through the 40s and into the 50s, used a method of keeping score that was unique to the era. "Lighted scoring" was a way for the game to show you your score and to keep track of your current score for the purpose of awarding replays. I describe how lighted scoring is controlled, and the similarity between it and its successor, the score reel.