The Pinball Diaries

Alright. A little help from the wife and Taxi is on its feet. Way way in the back of this photo are Indiana Jones and Theatre of Magic.

I probably took about a hundred pictures of the old playfield in the machine from all sorts of angles and distances, but none of them really conveyed the overall grotesqueness of its condition. Suffice it to say that I think this machine was in a popular arcade at some point in its life and it shows. Cracked ramps, scratches all over, and artwork that is really decayed.

Here it is, ready to have the top surface disassembled:

I decided it was time to take on yet another project and set about replacing the horrible playfield on my Taxi machine with a NOS one that I found on Ebay a few years ago. A perfect opportunity to take lots of pictures and put ‘em up on the web with the delusion that somebody cares.

Here’s Taxi in my basement behind a whole crap-load of miscellaneous junk. First step, clean up miscellaneous junk so I can actually get to the machine. That’s my Banzai Run on the left. BANZAI!!!!

Well, that wasn’t so bad. You can sorta see Hurricane there behind Taxi in this pic. I think the last time I rode that bike was in 1996.