Got my second pinball machine with skydiving!

[DrewEckhardt 0]

I added a 1995 Williams No Fear http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2852 to my collection which is 180 degrees opposite of the 1974 Gottlieb Sky Jump http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2195 next to it.

Playfield art includes a skydiver plus twin otter and canopy silhouettes. There's the always broken skydiver/dropzone plastic. The translite has a Cessna dropping skydivers. And to top it off Air Challenge is my favorite part of the game

Sports commentator: It's a beautiful day for skydiving.
Tell 'em how to do it BoneHead.
Talking skull: Shoot the Skydive
(The skull's jaw moves when he talks. Amusing and it won't wreck game play if it breaks)
Diver: Wait a minute! I've never done this before! How do I do it? Where's-the-rip-cord? I-wanna-go-back!
Talking skull: Shut up and JUMP!

A count down starts at 25 million points, animation of a sky surfer about to exit during a lightning storm with periodic thunder. Shooting the skydive shot freezes the value and obviously causes him to jump.

After that you have 30 seconds to make each of the eight major shots, awarding the frozen value and causing inverted spinning skysurfer animations with the last shot good for 75 million and opening the parachute.

The game's great other than that; while I wouldn't want one as my only machine it's fast and gets me sweating.

In the mid-1990s I learned to sky surf from guy nick-named Black Death Billy, so there's the nostalgia thing going on too.

[stratostar 5]

I think I like the sky jump better, but anyway both very cool to have in the basement bar area..... What did those set you back?

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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I think I like the sky jump better, but anyway both very cool to have in the basement bar area..... What did those set you back?

$80 for Sky Jump (I had to adjust one switch to get it working), $1225 + shipping for No Fear (In working condition; stripped, cleaned, and waxed 100 games ago; although I had to put in new leg bolts and plates, translite glass, reconnect both 20V flasher lines, and I still have four intermittent micro switches to replace).

[LongWayToFall 0]

Hey I think I played that one. Can you get an option where you race a motorcycle on the little screen, and use the paddles to turn? When I last went to the bar where it was at, it was gone and replaced with a golf game. FUCKING WEAK!!!

[jdthomas 0]

nice score drew. I knew a guy had the skyjump but he was not willing to sell.
I have had many pinball machines, most of them got dirt cheap out of peoples basement that no longer wanted them. i think the most i ever paid was 100$ for a machine.
My best was a Derby day, paid 10$ for the machine that was near mint condition, sold the machine the same day for 800$, the guy I sold it to turned it around for more then that but I did not care as made great change on it already!
Joe

www.greenboxphotography.com

[ryoder 1,590]

When I was ~20, one of the guys in our clique was a real wizard.
He would win free game after free game, and play until we dragged him away.

Then there was that deaf, dumb, and blind kid...

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[riddler 0]

Very nice, Drew! I didn't even know there were any pinball machines with skydiving. Any others that you know of?

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[ntrprnr 0]

Nice to see other silver ball devotees on here. I've owned a ST:TNG and Whitewater machine - Still looking for a good condition Rollerball and Space Shuttle - the one with the lower level. :)

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"Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?"
"Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

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Nice to see other silver ball devotees on here. I've owned a ST:TNG and Whitewater machine - Still looking for a good condition Rollerball and Space Shuttle - the one with the lower level. :)

There are about three diffrent used pinball machine places around here that i can think of, but they are all priced at what the market will bring.
When hunting for a machine i use craigslist, "local" small town trade papers ( big nickle, lucy dime, etc, etc) and watch the auction sections for pinball machines and i have purcahsed no less the 10 industrial sewing machines with that method as well and resold those to riggers.
I hope that this helps you find a machine.
Joe

www.greenboxphotography.com

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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Very nice, Drew! I didn't even know there were any pinball machines with skydiving. Any others that you know of?

1964 Bally Sky Divers http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2193
1973 Bally Sky Kings http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=2196

Sky Jump was also produced in add-a-ball versions with extra balls instead of replays (Free Fall for the domestic market, Sky Dive for export). Different names were stuck on it by at least one Italian company that copied it and another European company which produced it under license.

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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Hey I think I played that one. Can you get an option where you race a motorcycle on the little screen, and use the paddles to turn? When I last went to the bar where it was at, it was gone and replaced with a golf game. FUCKING WEAK!!!

Yes, that's video mode.

[Eiley 0]

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Very nice, Drew! I didn't even know there were any pinball machines with skydiving. Any others that you know of?

1964 Bally Sky Divers http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2193
1973 Bally Sky Kings http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=2196

Sky Jump was also produced in add-a-ball versions with extra balls instead of replays (Free Fall for the domestic market, Sky Dive for export). Different names were stuck on it by at least one Italian company that copied it and another European company which produced it under license.

Also, the Tommy machine skill shot involves not letting your (roundie) skydiver bounce (shows in video mode).

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