![]() ![]() We’ve actually never owned a pinball machine (have you?) so we were all pretty excited! You can see here that he is almost done building the first pinball machine. ![]() The entire pinball machine is made of 39 die-cuts that you just pop out of the cardboard sheets. Because we just recently received it and my kids are in school this week they haven’t had the chance to decorate it yet but that’s what their holiday break is for!! I couldn’t believe how eager my son was to get his hands on this set since building sets for him are a take it or leave it kind of thing. Plus it includes the marbles, rivets, paper clip and rubber bands that you’ll need. The kit includes EVERYTHING – ALL of the cardboard sheets that are perforated to punch out and even graphics that you can cut out and color. The tutorial is about an hour long and after the first pinball machine was built my son didn’t even need to watch the tutorial again. It leaves absolutely no questions and you can see everything built along with you. My 10 year old son on the left built two of these Pinbox 3000 sets ALL by himself! Directions are included in the box but I HIGHLY recommend you just watch the tutorial on their website. ![]() I spotted their booth when I attended ChiTAG this year (Chicago Toy & Game Fair) and I totally geeked out when I saw how COOL this product was! NOT ONLY do you buy a cool pinball machine that is totally customizable because you design it yourself but you actually BUILD it too! And it is NOT complicated to build! And YES – it is made from cardboard and it REALLY works! (and well too!) AND….well, just keep reading. View attachment 16276 View attachment 16277Out of everything we’ve reviewed, probably ever, Pinbox 3000 absolutely tops our list. Here's a quick vid of how it looks and sounds (sorry for the bad playing, was shooting the vid and playing one handed!) They are seriously loud!! Great care has been taken to orientate all connectors so existing cabling will connect easily. The amps i am using are 2.1 surround with adjustable treble,bass and sub crossover level with separate sub volume. I use solid state drives, which are basically just flash ram, so boot up is fast and there are no moving parts like old hard drives had, so no danger of vibration issues, or the hd head smashing into the data plates etcĪs you can see the full unit slides easily into the existing game. All voltages needed including the amp power are generated form a single psu. The power supplies are set for 120v operation, so you can just plug direct into the games old computer power lead. You will need to source a 22" or 23" lcd monitor to use with it, but these are easily found nowadays. The audio cable included will plug straight into the existing game wiring, as will the driver board cable and monitor cable. You get a full system mounted on 2mm zinc plated metal base that can be slid into the existing game computer bracket with motherboard,cpu,ssd,power supply and amp. No messing about and after a lot of sourcing different parts, connectors,cabling and components i have created just that. I wanted to create a system that contained everything that you need to upgrade an existing game and one that you could just slide in and connect up. A drop in replacement computer setup that can run nucore/pinbox for pin2k computers. ![]()
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