next project, cactus jacks BEFORE pictures......

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heres some pics of my next project. its a gottlieb cactus jacks. im going to post pics of the board damage in my previous post. i hope everyone sees those pics to know what im talking about
this game is really dirty and was used by a movie prop company as a movie prop. ive been looking for one of these for awhile i heard they are fun but the music is annoying
 

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Nice Score

Wow I am jealous now. Have 3 pins but have not been able to get any newer titles (read ramps/multiball) that were in my budget. I look forward to watching the progress.
 
This thread interests me because I considered the same machine. I know one other KLOV member that did as well.

I hope you can get it running again. From what I understand, it's a good playing machine.

Good luck with your project! I will watch with anticipation the progress! :)

Chris
 
I want a Cactus Jack. I dont know how I would like playing it as an adult, but it was a blast as a kid and would likely be greatly appriciated by kids today. I put many quarters in one of those. Good Luck with the project.
 
I am very interested in your progress and maybe we can assist each other. I just picked up my Cactus Jack yesterday and while it is working it does have some errors I just started troubleshooting and is almost as dirty as yours. :)

heres some pics of my next project. its a gottlieb cactus jacks. im going to post pics of the board damage in my previous post. i hope everyone sees those pics to know what im talking about
this game is really dirty and was used by a movie prop company as a movie prop. ive been looking for one of these for awhile i heard they are fun but the music is annoying
 
Do you know what movies it was seen in? It would be cool if someone famous 'played' it.
 
nice rescue

thats going to be a lot of work



i'm just glad the movie prop company didnt decide to push it off the roof while filming it so they could upload it on You Tube for everyone to see so they could get some advertisement and everyone to think how funny they are
 
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It's an okay game. It's so silly that it's kind of endearing.

The cactii in the back dance during the game which is kind of funny and unique.

It has the most annoying attract mode in all of pinball. pleaseplaypleaseplaypleaseplaypleaseplay.

It was one of those late gottliebs that I think was made when everyone else had moved on to DMDs. Also, if I remember right it has an extremely loud tilt warning sound - another classic gottlieb bad idea. I think they were trying to discourage abuse but I think it just pissed everyone off. I could never imagine one of them in a bar - everyone would leave!
 
i always like to play it when i was a kid at this local pizza place, then a few years later my dad got into buying selling trading pinball machines and we took a kiss machine to get fixed at our local operator and right there front and center 10 years later i got to play a cactus jacks again.......but this was back in 1996!!!.....
 
heres some updated pics......almost halfway done with the playfield......after i post this im going downstairs to clean most of the plastics i have removed........only after i try to beat the high score on crystal castles

(LEFT SIDE OF THE PLAYFIELD IS WHAT I DID AND RERUBBERED) SORRY FOR BAD LIGHTING

some of the pics i took to show how dirty the playfield is in the spots i didnt do yet
 

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Looks like they left it outside judging by all the metal corrosion.

no this guy had it sitting in his garage for a long time along with some ticket redemption games. ive been taking off each metal piece and polishing it but i still have to do the bottom ball trough under the apron. i only have had about 2 screws twist off on me bu tthat sucks when that happens
 
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