Whats the rarest arcade or pinball related items you own!

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Whats the rarest arcade or pinball related items you own!

Lets eliminate complete games...thats been done before...maybe a NOS cpo, bezel, marquee or rare promotional item for a game..etc

I would have to say its my Proto type Gottlieb Rocky Backglass that was used in Rocky III that was shattered...there are two known to exist and I own one...

In talking with designer of Rocky(John Trudeau) there were only a few made and one was destroyed for the shot in the movie....

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I just put a Side Arms(Hyperdyne, 1986) control panel on my jamma cabinet that I just finished. Although it was used and dirty, and not desired by many, nor worth a lot of money it is somewhat a rare piece. They are hard to come by and I was lucky to get mine. Certainly not nostalgic like that Rocky backglass....
 

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Here are some of my rare items, original negatives for some artwork, And for some unique games to,

not limited to, but including, satans hollow, blaster, turkey shoot, sinistar, jr pac, proffesor pac, sarge, bump n jump, burgetime, team laser prototype

these are original, direct from bally/midway/williams, one of a kinds!!


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I have a Crown's Golf Hawaii boardset... I may not be the only person to have one but I'm likely the only person to admit to having one!
 
I have an original unrestored control panel and marquee from a Taito Space Dungeon, for my project.

Just need a complete board set now.

RussM
 
Here are some of my rare items, original negatives for some artwork, And for some unique games to,

not limited to, but including, satans hollow, blaster, turkey shoot, sinistar, jr pac, proffesor pac, sarge, bump n jump, burgetime, team laser prototype

these are original, direct from bally/midway/williams, one of a kinds!!

Nice stuff. You should let ThisOldGame borrow those to create some reproductions.
 
Lets eliminate complete games...thats been done before...maybe a NOS cpo, bezel, marquee or rare promotional item for a game..etc

I would have to say its my Proto type Gottlieb Rocky Backglass that was used in Rocky III that was shattered...there are two known to exist and I own one...

In talking with designer of Rocky(John Trudeau) there were only a few made and one was destroyed for the shot in the movie....

Wow, that is awesome. I've always wondered about that backglass. Rocky III was one of my favorite movies as a kid; I watched it probably 50 times. When I looked it up somewhat recently I found that a Rocky game was made but the art on the backglass was similar, but not the same. I didn't realize that more than one of the movie version of the backglass existed. That's a difficult item to top, given its rarity and the fact that it was part of such a memorable scene in a blockbuster movie.

Don't let Burt Young see that; especially if he's liquored up.

The only rare item I have is an NOS Super Punch-Out decal. It seems to be the only one left; that anyone in this community knows about anyway:

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The email reply I received from John Trudeau and his comments in regards to the backglass were...

"The backglasses for the movie were all done before the Rocky game was even made. These were all screened on regular window glass so it would break for the movie. Tempered glass was always used on the machines. I believe less than 6 were made."


Mr. Trudeau also sent me a more detailed email about Sylvester Stallone being very specific about how he wanted the backglass made up and several revisions were apparently done before the final one you see in the movie...

The main difference is the proto-type looks exactly like Stallone and has much more fine detail...the production backglass is more of a glorified movie character that really doesn't look as much like Stallone...I would classify it as the comic book version of what Rocky would be..The skin tone and variations in color give this effect.
Compare for yourself....

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Closest to rare I've got is a set of SFIICE conversion kit artwork. Instead of the standard color scheme, the backgrounds are a black/yellow, the instruction/explanation bit on the cpo is pink, and a lot of the other colors are different. I only ever saw one machine done like that in an arcade, but they probably made tons of them. Not exactly desirable either, as most SF people are looking for the normal colored stuff. Going to be scanning them myself as I doubt ThisOldGame would care about making repros of them. :) I can take pictures if anyone cares.

The negatives sound awesome, but not sure how they're used (I'll google it). Some really neat stuff in this thread.
 
Spelunker PCB, only one I've ever seen.
Now put the knife down before you hear this. When I first got in to collecting a guy gave me a dozen or so boards right after I bought my first game: Frogger. Not knowing any better I did what? You guessed it, plugged every single one of those suckers in to see if they worked. After frying most, including Spelunker, I threw them away... :eek: *runs and hides for the Labor Day weekend*
 
Now put the knife down before you hear this. When I first got in to collecting a guy gave me a dozen or so boards right after I bought my first game: Frogger. Not knowing any better I did what? You guessed it, plugged every single one of those suckers in to see if they worked. After frying most, including Spelunker, I threw them away... :eek: *runs and hides for the Labor Day weekend*

You could have just kept that to yourself you know. :eek:
 
Back in the early 90's I picked up a NOS Tempest marquee overlay and still have it. A little later I scored a proto plastic from the Williams pin, Twilight Zone.

They revised the original plastic from "shoot to collect spiral award" to "shoot to load gumball machine" with different graphics too.
 
Rarest arcade items I own are a Tenth Degree prototype arcade PCB and an original Punky Doodle PCB, sideart, and marquee....I don't even think that game is dumped and there should only be 1-2 that exist....Tenth Degree there should be around 10 or so....
 
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