<div dir="ltr">Curious where you got that backglass? Does someone still have a stock of those or was that a lucky one off find? I am working on a Gorgar at home, and although I dont think it will ever be "pretty enough" to warrant a new backglass, I can hope!!<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 12:38 PM Roland Joyal via FSPA <<a href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="color:black;font:10pt arial">A pretty significant & historical classic pin joins Captain Fantastic at Silverball Sanctum in Lost Rhino Brewery, Ashburn. For those that may not know, GORGAR is the world's first "talking" pinball machine. <span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent">Have been refurbishing this game for awhile to use at Lost Rhino and I think it now plays like new. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent">Anyway, see what you think as it is on location now and will be able to be enjoyed for Summer FSPA league season. And just like with RUSH, this is an </span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic">augmentation</span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent"> to the lineup and not a replacement. </span></div>
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<div style="color:black;font:10pt arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent">Those that want a bit of interesting information on the game can keep reading... The promotion for this game was a thin, flexible, square 45 rpm record embedded in commercial coin-op publications, so the operator could rip it out and play it on a turntable to hear the monster's simple phrases. It is also possibly the first game with a magnet that holds the ball for effect. And maybe even the first game with controlled indicator lights that slowly pulse to give an eerie thematic effect. And besides the talking feature, the game has a cool thumping heart beat background sound that increases in timing, corresponding to how long you maintain the ball in play to build adrenalin.</span></div>
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<div>Even got a NOS (New Old Stock) backglass from the official 1996 backglass run for it. You may ask why NOS from 1996 when the game is from 1979/1980? This was Williams' famous game they were proud of, even 16 years later. Because the game had such an amazingly bold, mirrored backglass, and the fact that they realized the predominately-utilized red colored paint in the artwork often failed (faded or flaked prematurely), they remade the glass in 1996 and corrected the red paint problems they had in the original runs. -Roland </div>
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