Johnny Mnemonic pinball maintenance is not quite normal pinball maintenance. On a simpler mid 90s Williams game, you mostly worry about flippers, switches, dirt, balls, and the occasional board issue. Johnny adds the Cyberglove, the hand magnet, the hand popper, encoder boards, home switches, and a moving harness that can absolutely waste your weekend if … Read more
Elton John pinball maintenance starts with one basic question: which Elton John machine do you actually own? For most people, that means the modern Jersey Jack Pinball Elton John. But there is also the older Bally title, Capt. Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, which is Elton-connected and needs a very different kind of repair … Read more
How do you restore a Bally Lost World pinball machine without turning it into a giant side project that never quite works? Start with power, not polish. That is the big lesson with this game. Lost World sits right in that early Bally solid-state period where one bad connector, one tired regulator, or one crusty … Read more