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October 15, 2020 at 11:05 pm #205058
https://vpinball.com/?post_type=cmdm_page&p=205055
Introducing BunnyBoard, made by Marble Games Company Youngstown, Ohio, 1932. This was my inspiration for becoming a table author. I am probably more excited to finish this table since it was my first inspiration since joining this hobby, and it only took me 2 years to build… I made a posting at VPF 2 plus years ago about wanting help to build a table, last year someone posted, “dont give up, you can do it”, so i did. My other inspiration was that i saw someone else built one at one of the other sites and it was based off of pictures, so i figured i would finish this one since i own it.
Background on this one and how i came to own it. I did a post on the history of the first “coin operated” pinball, which was Whiffle by Automatic Industries in early 1931, also from Youngstown Ohio. This one came from a woodworking company in Youngstown in late 1931 in an Oak cabinet carved out beautifully and later in 1932 in a cherry cabinet, which i have. Pinball became so popular that in the early 1930’s, hundreds of companies began to pop up from wood shops in Ohio to amusement companies in Chicago. https://www.bmigaming.com/pinballhistory.htm, talks about Whiffle and Bally’s first release of Ballyhoo, which was just made here for VPX.
I purchased mine from craigslist for $100 which included dead mice, urine smell and mouse bedding and nests. I completely redid mine and now it is a permanent fixture in my home.
******GAMEPLAY******
Rules, There are 7 marbles in the game. I added different marble textures to choose from, click Options/Ball/Ball decal and change through the different marble colors to one you like. You start the game by inserting 5 cents and pushing the coin mech in which lifts the wires up and allows all marbles to fall below the apron. This is done in VPX by the coin in (3) button. There is a push knob on the front of the table which, when pushed in, ejects a ball, or two, to the shooter lane, This is done with the (1) button. The plunger is pulled back and fire a marble up and out into one of the wire loops.
Special thanks to the following who made this possible
Loserman76 for help with the scripting to get this working properly
Mlager8 for making the primitive wood pieces inside and the wood trim on the outside
32Assassin for help with testing and troubleshooting
Thalamus for help with testing and troubleshooting
I hope i got everyone it has been a long project, Thanks All, Enjoy
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October 15, 2020 at 11:15 pm #205061Thanks to @Loserman76, @Mlager8, @32assassin and @thalamus for all of your help, again
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October 15, 2020 at 11:41 pm #205063A quick wheel and the apron image for the backglass in Popper
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October 16, 2020 at 7:17 am #205123So cool. Congrats on making it to the finish line!
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October 16, 2020 at 7:21 am #205124I love to have a few of these old relics for VP, and I think you did a great job here Tom with team. Thank you all.
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October 16, 2020 at 8:45 am #205132Awesome Tom. Great story!
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October 16, 2020 at 10:51 am #205150Put some pictures on here of the one you own! I would like to see how it turned out.
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October 16, 2020 at 12:47 pm #205160Its all about the journey – who cares the goal… (“Der Weg ist das Ziel” good old germans or even older chinese would say nice story!
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October 16, 2020 at 1:33 pm #205167Very cool. Ipdb doesn’t have any pictures of this.
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October 16, 2020 at 1:38 pm #205168i submitted pics to ipdb 4 years ago??????????
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October 16, 2020 at 2:08 pm #205173Very cool!! I look forward to trying this out later
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October 16, 2020 at 2:35 pm #205174i submitted pics to ipdb 4 years ago??????????
Can’t help it. But, I’ve seen several cases where this community actually have supplied information to ipdb which hasn’t been taken under their wings. Makes you wonder if we could do a better job ourselves to be perfectly honest.
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October 16, 2020 at 2:53 pm #205180i know and it doesnt say who they are going to or who runs that site. I will gladly submit them again if someone knows who is in charge there
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October 16, 2020 at 11:33 pm #205235“I will gladly submit them again if someone knows who is in charge there” Skynet?
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October 16, 2020 at 11:35 pm #205236i tried again, we will see
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October 18, 2020 at 8:00 am #205388Great job on this.
What would I need to do to get B2S to display a simple backglass? I think I can make the BG file. Seems like some addition to the script could make it happen. Any advice?
Or is there another way to get a backglass to display?
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October 18, 2020 at 10:13 am #205392add this
Set Controller = CreateObject("B2S.Server")
Controller.Run
before
Dim EnableBallControl
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October 24, 2020 at 9:41 pm #206449Thanks for this unique table. Is there an easy way to change the button assignment to release the balls to something other than Coin 3 (such as “Add Credit”)?
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October 24, 2020 at 10:13 pm #206451I just sent an email to IPDB asking where the submitted pics are. I suspect the site is barely maintained and managed by those that don’t have a lot of energy for it anymore. I’m sure I’ll hear back from them promptly and I’ll suggest they let @randr take the site over. He seems to have lots of time on his hands lately ;)
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October 25, 2020 at 12:13 am #206455i got in touch with them. gonna send them better pics
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