NEW PINBALL MANUFACTURER

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The company is MarsaPlay of Almería, Spain who manufacture and distribute a range of coin-op equipment from darts games to jukeboxes. Now though, they have started to build pinball machines and their first is a remake of the 1986 Inder game Canasta '86', using modern technology to bring it into the 21st century.

Called New Canasta (basket), the new game retains the basketball theme and the same basic layout from Inder's original, but includes a number of significant new innovations.

For starters, underneath the playfield you won't find the usual bird's nest of cables to be seen on nearly all electro-mechanical and solid state pinballs. Instead, a number of large printed circuit boards (PCBs) with short ribbon cable interconnects provide all the switch, illumination and solenoid connections.

Incandescent lamps are replaced by LEDs to prolong their life and reduce both the heat and the power consumption, while solenoids have their own protection system to prevent damage to other components in the case of a short circuit.

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The new game is clearly designed to be easy to maintain by non-pinball specialists, with a simple playfield layout, contactless switches and LED lighting. It also incorporates a new menu system for testing or setting the game's features and pricing.

Although built in Spain ostensibly for the home market, the playfield artwork is all in English which would suggest MarsaPlay has export sales in mind as well.




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TheCoolinator's Home Arcade!!!

Pinball mishap then resolution!

Unfortunately I will not be getting the Speak Easy Pinball Machine anymore because the distributor that I was attempting to do business with seemed to be very unorganized, sluggish, and so overwhelmed with other things that he was unable to complete the transaction.

Sucks for him…..

On a good note however, I found another distributor that has already taken my money and will be delivering my reconditioned pinball machine TX-Sector on Thursday of this week. It was a little bit more cash but it has a lot more action going on in the play field. Bumpers, drop downs, ramps, and much, much, more then Speak Easy had to offer. So either way my Pinball machine journey has come to an end. Thanks you all for your support!

Heres another pictures of the Machine. Can't Wait until it gets here!

TheCoolinator makes a choice!

Breaking News!

My arduous Pinball journey is finally coming to a close. Today I got in contact with a Pinball distributor in Minnesota and he’s selling me a wonderful little Pinball Machine for a very reasonable price. So reasonable I must say that it’s more than a thousand dollars less then his competitors. It will be completely reconditioned and delivered to my door in the next few weeks. Here is a sneak peak of what it looks like.

Pretty, ain't she? and I absolutely love the 1920-30's theme.

Hope it's my first of many, Now I just need to find out where to put it.

My new obsession!

Hello all,

Coolinator coming to you live from corporate slave land. I just wanted to tell my vast fan base out there that I have gotten pinball fever. No, I didn’t catch it from a street walking strumpet nor did I get it from a dirty hand rail. I caught it from Pinball Hall of Fame: William’s collection for the PS2 and I must say that this is the most impressive pinball video game I have ever played. To make matters even worse I’m also afflicted with the Arcade Machine bug as well! I’ve been doing tons of research on these wonderful little wooden boxes of yesteryear and I must say am having a wonderful time. Too bad I don’t have any space to put them because I would definitely toss some cash into the wind for my own pinball table and a new arcade cabinet or two.

I am no stranger to arcade machines because just by chance my family used to be neighbors with an arcade distributor and we purchased our own arcade machine. It’s Crystal Castles from Atari, a wonderful classic played with one button (jump) and a track ball. It’s old and dusty and I lost the keys for it but it still works just as it did when it came off the assembly line.

Here are some favorites I’ve been drooling over. If you have any Arcade Machine / Pinball stories please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below telling us your story.