Bagman by Stern

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Has anyone heard of this game and have an opinion on it?

I just gutted a cabinet that was sitting on the side of the road in a neighborhood. The cabinet is toast...Edit*** Plywood*** is falling apart and is just basically all warped.

But I took a few things out...

1. Glass bezel for monitor
2. Plastic bezel that goes around the monitor
3. Wiring harness
4. The marquee
5. The control panel
6. The whole coin door
7. The entire bottom of the game which has the power brick /iso attached plus the game pcb cage with the Bagman pcb.


I left the Hitachi monitor and chassis and the light assem and speaker....plus latches...

I possibly could go back and get more but this haul I feel good about.
I didnt have all my tools on me..got kinda lucky.


So with all that said, I am selling.

Untested, dusty, but complete.

I will post pictures tomorrow.
 
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Has anyone heard of this game and have an opinion on it?

Played it as a kid back in the day. Loved it. Tough as nails. Own a nice one now. Still love it. Still tough as nails. Perfect game to own in a private collection if you ask me. You want tough games like this because they provide years of challenge and replayability. Bagman is a puzzle that seemingly few have unlocked but it is possible to get very, very good at it. The game is marathonable if you know what you're doing.

I just gutted a cabinet that was sitting on the side of the road in a neighborhood. The cabinet is toast...particle board is falling apart and is just basically all warped.

So it was a conversion then? Stern Bagman cabinets were not particle board; they were plywood. Well, at least the two dedicated Bagman cabs I have owned over the years were both plywood.
 
Glass bezel and plastic bezel and wire harness I'm interested in. :) PM was sent.
 
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Go back and get that monitor & tube! That can be useful for a lot of games in itself!

As other's have said, it's tough, largely in part from sloppy control mechanics. They really should have refined them more. Plus, there's bugs.
 
I learned how to play it at the last Banning repair party. Once you know what you're doing, it can be fun.
 
Thanks folks.

I got all the PM's.

I will take pictures of everything and post before I reply and sell anything. I dont want anything misrepresented.

Thanks for the advice on the monitor...I wanted it, but being a spur of the moment find, I wasnt in a position to get it...it might still be there...I will swing back by...


The game is a yellow cabinet with a Bagman side art sticker on each side. I kinda think its a dedicated cabinet, based on KLOV pictures I saw on here that match....shame the cab was allowed to deteriorate. Its just totally toast.

On the control panel and Marquee...

The Marquee is faded but clearly Bagman.....Its not sharp. But it is complete.

The control panel is there, again, for guts. The buttons on it are broken on top and the wood is warped that the panel is on. The graphics are very faded and chipped.

Underneath, there is more value to the control panel on the wiring side. Thats why I grabbed it.

Promise to get those pictures done.
 
Bagman pictures

Here is the cabinet as I first found it...

Then pics of parts I salvaged:

1. Front and back of the coin door
2. Marquee
3. Wiring harness


More coming...
 

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Bagman Pics continued

Actually that cab pic was after I gutted it, sorry..but before I took the monitor out.

Next set:

1. Front and back of the control panel...you can see its graphically not usable but the wiring and maybe the joystick are good...it may also work as a template to build another one.

2. The back of the marquee so you can see the condition. It looks ok.

3. The tinted monitor glass that I saved. Miraculously it was intact and not broken in this trashed game.

4. Plastic monitor bezel. In great shape.
 

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Last of the Bagman pics

The game PCB with close-ups of the ROMS and the daughter board...and connector.

The game PCB is attached to the power brick / iso transformer assembly. I will be separating that.

The power station can be sold separately.

The game pcb will come with the cage frame and the cover if you want it. Or I can just sell the pcb combo itself without the cage.


I also show a picture of the side-art from the cabinet...just so anyone can theorize if this was a dedicated or conversion cab...I think its dedicated based on pictures I have seen on here, but thats just an opinion...would be good to know for sure...no matter what, this is a Stern game with Stern parts in it....I really really think its dedicated due to the custom power station in the bottom and the fact that below the coin door was a wooden box for the coin holder...All the wiring looks natural, not hacked.


I think I have a few more pics from when I stumbled onto the game at night.....
 

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The game PCB with close-ups of the ROMS and the daughter board...and connector.

The game PCB is attached to the power brick / iso transformer assembly. I will be separating that.

The power station can be sold separately.

The game pcb will come with the cage frame and the cover if you want it. Or I can just sell the pcb combo itself without the cage.


I also show a picture of the side-art from the cabinet...just so anyone can theorize if this was a dedicated or conversion cab...I think its dedicated based on pictures I have seen on here, but thats just an opinion...would be good to know for sure...no matter what, this is a Stern game with Stern parts in it....I really really think its dedicated due to the custom power station in the bottom and the fact that below the coin door was a wooden box for the coin holder...All the wiring looks natural, not hacked.


I think I have a few more pics from when I stumbled onto the game at night.....

Of course it's dedicated and it IS plywood. You said it was particle board in your first post which is what was causing confusion. Particle board is basically sawdust glued together under pressure. Plywood is layers of wood veneer glued together under pressure.
 
Last of the pics

Original view of the cab salvaged on the side of the road......I left the actual cabinet...

I did take the control panel latches..so forgot to mention that I have them.

Side-art, in case you want to read it....but to me, not worth keeping. I left it.

The back on the monitor chassis. I did grab that monitor..went and got it...looks intact but untested yet. tube/chassis...Its a Hitachi...not sure what model yet...maybe someone can see from the pic...
 

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Of course it's dedicated and it IS plywood. You said it was particle board in your first post which is what was causing confusion. Particle board is basically sawdust glued together under pressure. Plywood is layers of wood veneer glued together under pressure.

Yep, I misspoke. Sorry....When I was digging in there, the inside peeled away like particle board which is why it stuck in my head...plus the marquee area....but yes, I agree...literally, this game just needed a small tug and the whole cabinet falls apart...it was super soft.

the inside "shelf" was a piece of soft soft wood that I punched through to get to the PCB...
 
Yep, I misspoke. Sorry....When I was digging in there, the inside peeled away like particle board which is why it stuck in my head...plus the marquee area....but yes, I agree...literally, this game just needed a small tug and the whole cabinet falls apart...it was super soft.

the inside "shelf" was a piece of soft soft wood that I punched through to get to the PCB...

It looks like the front panel WAS particle board or MDF (medium density fiber board, often mistaken for particle board, but actually, much worse).
 
Played it as a kid back in the day. Loved it. Tough as nails. Own a nice one now. Still love it. Still tough as nails. Perfect game to own in a private collection if you ask me. You want tough games like this because they provide years of challenge and replayability. Bagman is a puzzle that seemingly few have unlocked but it is possible to get very, very good at it. The game is marathonable if you know what you're doing.



So it was a conversion then? Stern Bagman cabinets were not particle board; they were plywood. Well, at least the two dedicated Bagman cabs I have owned over the years were both plywood.

Plywood...I misspoke...sorry for the confusion....
 
Go back and get that monitor & tube! That can be useful for a lot of games in itself!

As other's have said, it's tough, largely in part from sloppy control mechanics. They really should have refined them more. Plus, there's bugs.

Done!!!! Thanks!!! See if you know anything about that monitor.....

I havent gone through it yet..still in the truck actually...but will do that soon....
 
It looks like the front panel WAS particle board or MDF (medium density fiber board, often mistaken for particle board, but actually, much worse).

Has to have been some in there....plywood doesnt just collapse that easily. Plywood warps, but it doesnt simply melt and go soft.

Thanks for sorting this out though....nice to have another set of eyes on these things....
 
The back on the monitor chassis. I did grab that monitor..went and got it...looks intact but untested yet. tube/chassis...Its a Hitachi...not sure what model yet...maybe someone can see from the pic...

To identify a monitor we need a pic of the chassis PCB ... not the tube. :001_smad:
Fascinating, BTW, to see that poor BAG MAN. Thanks for sharing ...
 
IIRC, the sides, bottom, top and bottom cross bars that the back door sits between and the top crossbar for tilting the cab back on Bagman are plywood. And the monitor support stuff. And the "ceiling" and entire front are MDF(*). Or some other worthless material.

And I know that my dedicated Super Bagman is the same.



(*) Someday, I'll find the person who invented MDF! And all of their descendents! :mad:
 
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