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Hey! Call that Taxi!

Posted on May 30, 2011 by abpinball

Picked up a Taxi machine today. It’s in reasonable condition – certainly not a museum showpiece, but it plays fast and it plays good. Taxi was released by Williams in the summer of 1988, and was designed by Mark Ritchie (the brother of … Continue reading →

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Installed Speaker Upgrade

Posted on May 25, 2011 by abpinball

STTNG has excellent music and great speech sounds recorded by the original cast, but through the stock speakers… well, let’s just say it could sound better 🙂 There are a couple manufacturers of speaker upgrade kits for pinballs – Pinball … Continue reading →

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Opto insanity!

Posted on May 24, 2011 by abpinball

After replacing the power driver board, I thought all was well, but unfortunately it wasn’t so. 😐 The machine would play normally most of the time, but then all of a sudden in the middle of a game it would … Continue reading →

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Replaced Power Driver Board

Posted on May 24, 2011 by abpinball

My STTNG machine was unfortunately suffering from intermittent reboot issues when I purchased it. I knew about the issue when I bought it, but I got the machine at such a great price that it was worth the risk. I … Continue reading →

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