Midway Bullseye Information

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My girlfriend just purchased a Midway Bullseye skill game from around 1972. It works after I found out how to turn the power on. It has a 5'x3' marquee and is similar to a dart game, but you time your throw for points. It is totally mechanical. Does anyone know anything about this machine or have any schematics for it. What is the rarity or value of this machine? She paid $230 for it. The game is stupid, but the marquee is beautiful and it works.
 
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i am familiar with those games. they are large sorta like a picture and they hang on the wall and you have 1 or 2 controllers. my friend who is also into pinball machines and arcade games has about 3 or 4 of them and he would never let them go for UNDER $400. i know there is one that is made that is target shooting or maybe duck shooting. then theres bullseye like yours, then they made a really cool golf one.
im not 100 percent sure where to get schematics, but i would try to call steve young at the pinball resource pbresource.com
 
My girlfriend just purchased a Midway Bullseye skill game from around 1972. It works after I found out how to turn the power on. It has a 5'x3' marquee and is similar to a dart game, but you time your throw for points. It is totally mechanical. Does anyone know anything about this machine or have any schematics for it. What is the rarity or value of this machine? She paid $230 for it. The game is stupid, but the marquee is beautiful and it works.

The game is not "stupid". It's from a different era... you know, BEFORE Xbox or Microsoft for that matter.

OK, I am teasing you.

Seriously, I have a Bullseye and another one and I think they are cool. They are not common because compared to pinballs, video games and other older electromechanical (EM) games they are somwhat fragile. You now perfectly well how large they are, yet they are thin and the front side is a giant piece of plastic. They are worth saving simply because of their increasing rarity.

They are nice conversation pieces and I wouldn't sell either of mine for 3 times what your girlfriend paid for yours. She got a nice deal.

As for schematics... good luck with that. There isn't much documentation out there for these things. If it's working, you don't really need drawings do you?

Since it's basically the same thing as an EM pinball, you can read up on troubleshooting those things and you should be able to figure out how it works. There's not much inside that box that can go bad.
 
Stupid was a misuse of words. It does not compare to anything today, but for 1972 it would have been pretty cool. Even now it is a work of art and the engineering is amazing.

A previous owner bent a relay contact out of the way to allow one button free play. I have fixed that and now I have to figure out how to get power to the credit relay to get that reel working.
 
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its not a bad game, and takes up very little room, so its a keeper to me. flippers.com has schematics and paperwork for it. i repaired one once, and got the paperwork from there. they originally has radio control remotes, but most were refitted with wired ones.
 
I got it working. It must have been set up for free play. Free play would have been fine, but the credit reel did not work. I had to do some creative bending to get everything working. I was hoping to get it to work by remote, but I have no idea what frequency they operate at or how to set the dipswitches correctly if I did know the frequency. It is mounted on the wall and ready for operation. If I have any problems in the future I may have to get them.

Thanks for the information anyway.
 
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