1st machine - GENIE PACHINKO PINBALL MACHINE ~ MAGIC CARPET RIDE

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After reading some of the Posts for Valley Gaming. I was al little worried about the machine I won on EBAY. They were the only vendor that was close enough for local pickup to avoid their $79 FED EX Shipping charge. Although Valley Gaming does not provide a user manual, feet to prevent tipping, or box to catch the balls in the back, they said they have a generic manual they would email me, I plan to get some scrap wood for the feet, and I found a plastic box to catch the balls in the back. Everything worked fine after adjusting some pins, the pins were all bent so only the main tulip that runs the center display would allow balls. There is a small slot at the top to bump the genie's head along the side of the center display for the super jackpot mode. At first I thought it was broken, but I found that the bottom tulip and gate below it only works during super jackpot mode. There is an interactive button at the front base that seems to adjust the odds of the jackpot win. Without pushing the interactive button when the Genie head floats on the center screen, the three jackpot reels would never line up and the boy on the screen would almost sneeze at the end of the reel spin. It would go one number larger than the winning combination and you would loose. By holding between the 6th and 7th flash of the floating head, I was able to get the 1% from a momentary press and release of the button to 30%(you may need to release the button when the genie flashes, I have not found out exactly how it works to increase you odds which are shown when you release the button). When the boy sneezes at the end of the reel spin, the reel will spin again. GO pocket next to the bottom tulip activates a star and up to four leds along the right side of the bottom section. The The interactive button also works on the 15 round mega jackpot mode. You need to press the button to increment the number on the right of the = sign to match the sum of the two number shown on the screen. The math screens come up a few times during the mega jackpot mode. The only other modifications besides the installation of feet, I plan to do is a volume control. I am trying to find a pair of connectors used to hook the speaker wires to the control board, to make an inline volume control that can be installed and removed without changing the original wiring.
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You guys were right, the Valley Gaming Tech Timothy did not know about your basic Pachinko tidbits like the single shot button on the firing knob or the hand sensor to prevent shooting without holding the knob. He was familiar with hand interlock feature on the starwars pachinko. They seem much more knowledgeable about american pinball machines.