If I didn’t already have Lost World, I’d have bought Gorgar already, but thematically, they are so similar, and the odd thing is, the play field of Star Trek is actually really similar to Gorgar, so I’m leaning toward Star Trek.
The guy selling it has an original tabletop (which predated the cabinet) Pac-Man in beautiful shape, and he will give me a discount if I buy it with the pinball, which would make my son very happy. So I might do that.
I used to collect and restore 70s pachinko machines, and still have some on hand; the guy is going to take two of them and give me $175 off the total price. I’d sell the pachinko machines, and barely squeak out a profit, but it was a fun hobby.
The guy is also restoring a Bad Cats (Williams), but it won’t be ready for months. He’s making one machine out of three crappy ones. It’s an 80’s machine, but I’d love one.
Okay, that’s hilarious. You gotta get that one when it’s ready!
Maybe the greatest machine ever? It was awesome and much better than Pinball Wizard
Regarding 8 Ball Deluxe - is that the machine that said “stop talkin’ and start chalkin’”? It was a good one.
OP, FIrepower II. I love multiball play. I don’t really know the other ones. My hardcore pinball days ended at the end of the 70’s, although I played a fair amount when I lived in Japan in 1991-93 (Terminator 2 was by far the best new machine at the time).
You have to go back to the pre electronic pin ball machines to get a multiplay before Firepower II
My only issue is that I would keep flashing on the big T-rex GWAR used in their live shows ------ but that was Gor-gor and that could also just be me. 
“Quit talkin’ and start chalkin’”, but that’s the one.
I remember when Amtex released a computer version of this (it was before Visual Pinball was widely available). I also remember when Amtex stiffed the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association after promising it would provide prizes for one of its World Championships tournaments, and all of a sudden there were calls to boycott the company’s products, unaware that the company had serious financial problems and went under soon after. (I was waiting for them to release Stentec’s Sailing Simulator, but it turned out that I could order it directly from Stentec.)
We had a pinball machine in our basement when growing , I wanted to take it but my mom said my ex brother was getting . I disowned my brother so he now my ex brother .
So Star Trek will be delivered Wednesday. I’m also getting my son the table version of an original Pac-Man. I played it, and the play is amazingly smooth. The guy is giving me a deal on them both, plus I’m trading some of my pachinko machines.
Thanks to everyone who voted. It helped me make up my mind, albeit, I might get a Gorgar at some point.
I also told the guy to call me as soon as he has a Bad Cats.
I’ll be at Pin-A-Go-Go a few miles SW of Sacramento tomorrow; I’ll see if anybody is offering one for sale.
Glad you were able to come to a decision that sounds like it will please everyone.
Someday, I’m going to have a Swords of Fury. Someday…
There was a Bad Cats there, but it was not for sale.
I also managed to get looks at a couple of new games in the new “video backglass” (similar to The Wizard of Oz) style - The Hobbit, and Archer. (Yes, Archer, as in, “You want tilts? Because that’s how we get tilts!”)
Did you play Bad Cats? I hope you played it.
And thanks for looking, but I live in Indiana, so even if they had one for sale, transportation would be a problem.
The guy who is selling me Star Trek has three Bad Cats in various states of disrepair, but he thinks he can get one good machine out of them that will restore to medium-high grade, because the playing field of one of them is pretty good, and another has an intact case that has some vandal damage, but he thinks it’s all repairable (kids with Sharpie type stuff). He just has to get around to doing the project, and he has a lot of repair orders to do first.
I have considered putting down a deposit, so he will get started on Bad Cats, but that means I might get stuck waiting if there is one part that is bad on all three, and the deposit is non-refundable, so if in the interim I found another Bad Cats someplace else, I’d be stuck. It might be he’d let me switch the deposit to a different machine, but he wouldn’t have to-- or maybe he’d take 10% and let me switch, but I really don’t need two new pinball machines right now. I am going to own two machines and a Pac-Man which is pretty indulgent for someone who isn’t rich. I’m better off buying some three years bonds for my son’s bar mitzvah.
I thought I loved pinball but that is hardcore.
Since the poll closed today, I thought I’d let people know that we did go with Star Trek, and it is home and very happy. The restoration job is great, the cost was extremely reasonable, and it’s a pretty challenging game. Just for fun, we disabled the tilt mechanism.
ETA: We also got the table style Pac-Man for my son. He loves it.