Bought a grail today: Defender Pinball

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ill have actual pics up tomorrow.

jon
 
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Finally had a chance to set up the game and take some pix.

As many of you may or may not know, only around 3xx of these were produced. I read somewhere that the plant caught on fire or something and most were destroyed.

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Jon
 
Wow, that's really cool. I'm assuming it's not as hard as the original arcade game. The controls were always difficult for me to handle. :)
 
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The coolest thing about it are the sounds. Defender sounds are awesome.

The game came without the soundboard working, but i noticed its a joust/robotron/stargate style sound board. So I just modified a known working joust sound board and swapped out the rom and now it works great.

Jon
 
Great find Jon. I bought mine years ago & have only seen 2 or 3 for sale since. 2 of those were in FLA & mine still has a broward county sticker on it even though i bought it in PA.
What are Defender pins worth nowadays ? The sounds & graphics really make this pin cool. The game play is okay.
 
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Strange to hear about the 2 you purchased. I had 2 in florida. One in horrible condition and one in good condition but had a bad sound board. Also both backglasses were trashed.
I sold them to Andy Kline of Gameroom Gallery.

No idea on the value, but i paid a lot for this one.

Jon
 
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Whoa.. Thanks..

I tried googling "defender pinball" and it never came up.
Only people selling copies of it.

Jon
 
That's one bad-ass pin!

Are those Chinese markings or ships?

Specifically on the pic of the playfield (to the left by the two yellow circles):

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Flyer:

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A review:

7. Defender – Real old skool and years ahead of its time. Individual cpu controlled drop targets all over the playfield and overall gameplay really does the video game proud. I'm always amazed that the production run was so low. Locking balls and then achieving multiball is very satisfying – I just wish that multiballs of this era had jackpots, rather than just giving you more balls to play with. Defender may well be replaced by "Solar Fire" on this list once I have mine up-and-running. I loved Battlestar Galactica and the graphics and sound package on this pin could well mean that it replaces Defender as my favourite System 7 pin.

http://www.thepinballblog.com/2009/02/top-10-pinball-machines-on-friday.html
 
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Do you mind telling us what you paid for it? If not, what is a reasonable amount in your opinion (since you have owned a few)? I passed up on one a couple months back as it was out of my price range, but not sure it ever sold. Where did you come across that beauty? It looks to be in really nice shape. Thanks!
 
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