Somebody gave me a pachislo recently as a birthday gift. Although after doing some investigation, it's probably not the machine I would have purchased for myself, but it is a lot of fun to play and a pachislo compliments the various other games in my gameroom. Perhaps some time I'll get a machine that is in better shape, and more what I want but until then I want to cut my teeth on this unit.
It is a 5 reel machine with baseball players and samurai graphics on the outside reels. The belly glass seems to have been replaced with a nascar/looney tunes graphic as some kind of cheap conversion. Does anyone know the original artwork, or is it possible to get an original belly glass? The partial conversion bothers me. I'd rather either have a completely reworked machine like dapperdan produces or an original unit. Ah well! If a belly glass to send the machine back to 'stock' available and this machine is not really worth anything (likely) then maybe I'll consider putting together some graphics for a conversion. I'd really like to put together a pac-man to fit in with my other machines. Is there somewhere that will print films for me since I dont have access to a suitable printer?
The best I can tell is that the unit is an Aristocrat and is a slightly older max bet machine (when they still had the vestigal 1 and 2 con bet buttons). Am I right about this?
I plan on cleaning it properly, adding an external volume control so I don't go deaf and power switch and then probably I will add an auto stop/credit board to simplify playing it at home. I was going to do things properly with an impedence matched control, but I'll probably cheap out with a potentiometer instead...
Also I'm interested in knowing if anyone has a rule sheet for this game? I understand the big bonus game but that's about it -- seems there are little mini games like baseball and something with the samurai and the little trampoline looking deal (seen in the photo) that have an objective -- and I have no idea what it is!
Thanks in advance