Fish Tales Pinball, Williams, 1992

All photos are of the actual machine. Hurried pix so they're not as good as I'd like them to be.

Click on most images to see higher resolution pictures

To view the auction of the pinball machine on TradeMe click HERE.


Some cellphone pix during the cabinet restore

(No, I don't have a shed/garage/workshop/basement, the lounge is it!)
Razor blade scraper and heat gun are the way to go:

After hand sanding (hence the blue sheet)

Here's a video of me redecaling a Fish Tapes pinball cabinet:


Cabinet view:

Left hand view of the cabinet. Click the image and have a closer inspection.

Front view of the cabinet. Click the image and have a closer inspection.

Right hand view of the cabinet. Click the image and have a closer inspection.

The flapping fish in the topper.

The flapping fish in the topper again.

The backglass

Side view of the backbox, she's pretty!

This is the complete, birds-eye view of the playfield. Click on the image and inspect.

The players view of the playfield.

The "Casters Club" house. You shoot your balls in here for multiball and the various jackpots.
Unlike most pinball machines there are 4 different JACKPOTS.

The "boat" with captive ball in the base and ramps either side.

The included original promotional flyer front, click the image and read all about it.

The included original promotional flyer rear, click the image and read all about it.

The included original operations manual.

A sequence of stills of the plasma display (not a video):

A couple of inlay cards I made: (click them for a printable image)

And how they look (v. rough shot w. cellphone)


Informative links:

This link is the Fish Tales promotional video, it demos most of the features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVKiLVVvRw8

The entry at the Internet Pinball DataBase:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=861

The rules of play:
http://www.pinball.org/rules/fishtales.html

Kind regards... Clark


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