Category: In The Collection

Rampage World Tour is an arcade video game released in by Midway Games in 1997 as the sequel to Rampage.

George, Lizzie, and Ralph have been released due to an explosion at a Scumlabs facility. The trio begin to destroy all of Scumlabs’ bases scattered throughout the world and kill its employees. In the last levels, Scumlabs CEO Eustace DeMonic turns himself into a monster in an attempt to combat George, Lizzie, and Ralph, but is defeated during a battle on a lunar base. After this, the only surviving Scumlabs employee Dr. Elizabeth Veronica tries to disintegrate the monsters with a ray gun on her spaceship, but it only shrinks them to a miniature size, and they wind up inside her ship.

Die Hard Arcade, known as Dynamite Deka in Japan, is an arcade beat ’em up video game released by Sega. It was the first beat ’em up to use texture-mapped 3D polygon graphics, and used a sophisticated move set by contemporary beat ’em up standards, often being likened to a fighting game in this respect.

It also features quick time events, the ability to combine items to make more powerful weapons, and in two-player mode the ability to perform combined special moves and combos.

What a weird pinball machine. It looks like a video arcade on legs.

I am going to build a custom frame for ours and not worry about the pinball legs. Maybe.

This is a huge widebody space themed pinball machine.

A huge widebody from 1980 with a panther lady theme.

A Miami Vice themed game, but they couldn’t get the rights, so they moved them to Hollywood. The man in the flyer is Jeff Walker from the Marketing Department at Premier.

This is the first game to use 8-digit scoring.

I love the 80’s vapourware aesthetic artwork and music.

This is a great multi-player game as you can steal another players locked balls for multi-ball.

A crazy road warrior themed machine.

A unique machine where you earn chips for your bonus and you can bet those chips during gameplay.

The song is sung by Steve Richie – the designer of this and many other pinball machines.

Zaccaria Supersonic is a single player, add-a-ball, pinball machine from Italy. I love the artwork on this one. Even though it came out in 1977, it has a groovy 60’s vibe.

Fun machine to play.

I was contacted by a couple that had two “old pinball machines” in storage. They thought one worked and one did not. Apparently about 25 years ago 10 pinball machines were found in a warehouse on Powell Street in Vancouver. This couple decided to take two of them home. They played them for about 10 years until they were retired to storage space in their house. That’s where they sat until I showed up – shoved in the back corner, covered in dust, surrounded by boxes and other unused items.

The two machines were Dealer’s Choice and Jumping Jack.

Dealer’s Choice was the machine they thought worked. Before I showed up the woman plugged it in and tried to start a game. It lights up, the repeater motor cycles, but that’s about it. The woman said “Lights come on but no one is home.”

I don’t think it will take much to get this one going.

The cabinet and backglass are in great shape. All plastics are intact. The pop bumper skirts are well chipped up and I’ll need to replace those. One pop bumper cover has a bite taken out of it. The playfield is dirty but there is minimal wear on the paint. After I clean the playfield I think I’m just going to touch up the black around the inserts with enamel. I don’t think I’ll bother with the other colours. They used a special UV reactive paint on the playfield which might be hard to match.