I picked this up. I don't know what it is but I am into System 11 again. There are a few that interest me but I lately have the feeling I am going to pull a "Medvet" on Sys 11 with the exception of having an area to set them up.

Man what a big head. I have looked at them before but each time I see one of these the head just looks huge. It's full of flashers and the lights sequence along the gun so it is really a sight to see. Always wanted to have one just like Space Station but it is a target of opportunity type title for me.

Fun game that plays really fast. The catapults work amazingly well and the backglass game is actually meaningful to the overall game. Dual sets of flippers, bg animation (game), catapults, flashers galore, drop targets, post and a novel head. It is a really kinetic game for sure with some interesting rules.

I got a complete NOS set of plastics with the exception of the molded cannon ones from the guy. Even has the promo slingshots NOS in there but I am still trying to figure out which direction they go and where. There are a couple of stickers too that are identical to these plastics but stickers. Anyway I am pretty impressed with the goodies... (doesn't take much to impress me when it comes to pinball I guess. )

It's it really good shape all things considered. I will shop and may super-shop this one with a CC pf just because it's a really fast game but the pf really isn't that bad the way it stands.







Side art reminds me of this image from the original Alien movie.

Right on man. Good score!

Nice catch Necro!

I love my BG  and now prepare yourself to "Attack the Castle!"

Jacques

Nice pick !! Where is the mustang, you trade it for Big Guns ???  

Quoted from HAL-9OOO

Nice pick !! Where is the mustang, you trade it for Big Guns ???  

Nope, it's on the driveway. I am moving stuff around in the garage to make it work for now. BG is probably going to go somewhere until I can get WW finished. WW I am awaiting a handful of parts to get back onto it. This isn't going to get any major tear down until WW is done.

Just fixed some switch issues on BG (diode and connections on a couple of things had four switches not registering). Other than that I have the display panel out for some cleaning and gluing the displays back down to the stand-offs.

Nice score, Glen. Fun game. Like Medvet and now yourself, I really enjoy the Sys. 11 pins. Great variety and all very original.

Cheers,
Duane

Bug Guns is a fun one for sure, on my "all time" list.

welcome to the club

Please tell me that was the Big GUM of kijiji

I am so sick of looking at that one been there for every

$700 is a good deal though IMO

Quoted from b1buwg97

$700 is a good deal though IMO

Do you know something I don't? $700 is an awesome deal for it.... but I didn't get it for that.

$300 would have been a spectacular one and $50 would have been outrageous. If he had paid me to take it, it would have been absolutely heavenly.

I like the System 11 games too, I have a few (Rollergames, Diner, Riverboat Gambler, Transporter: The Rescue, BK2K, WW, Radical, Others?? I forget right now) They are all Fun, not super deep rule sets, but just simply fun.

Dave

Quoted from pins only

I like the System 11 games too, I have a few (Rollergames, Diner, Riverboat Gambler, Transporter: The Rescue, BK2K, WW, Radical, Others?? I forget right now) They are all Fun, not super deep rule sets, but just simply fun.

Dave

I can't believe you don't even know the games you have. That's scary.

Quoted from jonny_eh

I can't believe you don't even know the games you have. That's scary.

  you have no idea!!  

Dave  (A little over crowded   )

Very cool!  Big Guns is definitely a game I want.. I've decided that I'm a total Sys11 freak, myself.  They're like Pokémon.. gotta catch 'em all!  

(I can't believe I just referenced that stupid, stupid franchise..)

Quoted from machine.slave

Very cool!  Big Guns is definitely a game I want.. I've decided that I'm a total Sys11 freak, myself.  They're like Pokémon.. gotta catch 'em all!  

(I can't believe I just referenced that stupid, stupid franchise..)

Yeah. With the exception of maybe a couple of Sys 11 most are pretty good bang for the buck and they tend to lend themselves to that kind of thinking. As Duane stated they are all pretty varied. Even though they aren't super deep if one had the room for them you would have a lot of variety out of a nice collection of them.

Now that you mention it I am going to add Diner back to my list of wanted.

I know this is going to start a flurry of ridiculous responses but I will say it anyway, WTF

I don't know what it is but every Sys 11 has a smell to it. It's not a stink but it's a Sys 11 smell. I am not about to have a seizure, trust me, but am I the only one that senses that?

Burnt toast...

Quoted from necro_nemesis

I don't know what it is but every Sys 11 has a smell to it. It's not a stink but it's a Sys 11 smell. I am not about to have a seizure, trust me, but am I the only one that senses that?

Maybe it's you?















































I mean that can only smell it...not insinuating thta you smell  

I like playing them in other people's collections, but I get bored of them quick.

Banzai, Earthsaker, WW, BG, all fun to play games, but to own for me is tough.  I hope it will still be in one piece for next week would love to give it a shot.  

Quoted from Vengeance

I hope it will still be in one piece for next week would love to give it a shot.  

I will keep it whole till then.

As long as the scoring is balanced these games tend to be good competititon games IMHO.

There are no wizard challenges per se on a Sys 11 but to do well the ball has to stay in play and you need to know the scoring system. I challenge you to get to 9X multiplier on this game. Not that the concept is hard, it's the execution. In many ways I would think Sys 11 would be a more fair game to compete on than some of the newer games. There isn't any illusive rules buried in the game that will reward disproportionately. In most of these games it's a matter of sticking to the rules and keeping the ball in play, which to me makes a very good platform for competition.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

I will keep it whole till then.

As long as the scoring is balanced these games tend to be good competititon games IMHO.

There are no wizard challenges per se on a Sys 11 but to do well the ball has to stay in play and you need to know the scoring system. I challenge you to get to 9X multiplier on this game. Not that the concept is hard, it's the execution. In many ways I would think Sys 11 would be a more fair game to compete on than some of the newer games. There isn't any illusive rules buried in the game that will reward disproportionately. In most of these games it's a matter of sticking to the rules and keeping the ball in play, which to me makes a very good platform for competition.

Lol, so wrong

These games usually make terrible competition games because they have a cumulative jackpots.  Big Guns is the perfect example, during the multiball saving the queen awards an acumulating jackpot that is held over from game to game, so while once person may get a jacpot of 9 million after it has built, the same oppertunity isn't avaliable for another player until the jackpot builds up again.  It makes for some very uneven scoring in a tournament setting and also leads to people sitting and waiting to play the machine once the jackpot has reached a sufficent value.  

I know taxi is the same way, I think diner is as well, I can't remeber all the games that have cumulative jackpots but I know that quite a few from this era did.  

Quoted from Vengeance

Lol, so wrong

Oh wait. Is what I am hearing is that you may play a game without saving the queen?

Sounds like a personal problem.  

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Oh wait. Is what I am hearing is that you may play a game without saving the queen?

Sounds like a personal problem.  

You said the scoring was balanced, all I was pointing out was it's not  

If anything it's more unbalanced then most modern games as everyone gets the exact same scoring oppertunites in them, regardless of how lucrative one mode may be over the other.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

I don't know what it is but every Sys 11 has a smell to it. It's not a stink but it's a Sys 11 smell. I am not about to have a seizure, trust me, but am I the only one that senses that?

Yep, you are the only one. I've had several Sys. 11s. Never found a unique smell in them.

Duane

Quoted from Vengeance

You said the scoring was balanced, all I was pointing out was it's not  

If anything it's more unbalanced then most modern games as everyone gets the exact same scoring oppertunites in them, regardless of how lucrative one mode may be over the other.

Ok so it's not balanced if a whole lot of people who don't know how to play, play in succession.... but this is worse than getting raped by STTNG video mode how? lol.

I'm with Vengeance on this one.. the scoring is pretty unbalanced on Sys11's, so they wouldn't be good tourny machines.  Hell, my 29-million score on Bad Cats was almost entirely Jackpot bonus  

Quoted from necro_nemesis

but this is worse than getting raped by STTNG video mode how? lol.

At least EVERYONE playing STTNG in tourney mode would get raped by the video mode, not just one.  

D

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Ok so it's not balanced if a whole lot of people who don't know how to play, play in succession.... but this is worse than getting raped by STTNG video mode how? lol.

Cause you have just as much oppertunity to memarize the movments necessary to get threw the 10 tunnels as I do.  Not my fault your old man brain can't remember past the second tunnel

Quoted from Vengeance

Not my fault your old man brain can't remember past the second tunnel

Sorry what was that you were saying? I took about as much interest in that as learning that dumb video sequence.  

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Sorry what was that you were saying? I took about as much interest in that as learning that dumb video sequence.  

You sure it's just not the alzhimers kicking in