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Bring classic pinball art to life! This illuminated wall display recreates the 1981 Bally “Fathom” pinball back glass in brilliant detail, glowing with warm LED lighting. A perfect centerpiece for a game room, man cave, bar, or as a unique gift for collectors and retro design fans. Features: Authentic licensed artwork from Bally – “Fathom” (1981) High-resolution acrylic print for vivid color and sharp detail Built-in LED lighting, battery-powered (3 AA included) – no cords needed Framed and ready to hang or display on a shelf Remote control for brightness, on/off, and timer settings Size: 16″ × 20″?? The perfect gift: Whether for Christmas, a birthday, or Father’s Day, this glowing wall art is a conversation piece and a collector’s treasure.

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Vintage Pinball Wall Art – LED Illuminated Backglass. This illuminated wall display recreates Bally’s “Fathom” (1981) pinball machine artwork. Printed on durable acrylic and backlit with LEDs, framed and ready to hang. A unique collectible for pinball enthusiasts and retro décor lovers. Size: 16″ × 20″. Framed & ready to display. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States. Type: Illuminated Wall Art / Backglass Reproduction. Theme: Watersports, Scuba Diving. Material: Acrylic, Wood Frame, LED.

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THIS IS THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER 19810 SMASH HIT FATHOM BY BALLY…. THE GAME WAS RECENTLY TRADED INTO OUR SHOWROOM IN JUPITER FL. THIS IS A FULLY RESTORED VERSION OF THIS GAME AND IS THE NICEST RESTORE WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN OUR SHOWROOM FOR THIS PIN. THE FOLLOWING RESTORATION WAS DONE TO THIS PIN. A BRAND NEW PLAYFIELD WAS INSTALLED ALONG WITH ALL NEW HARDWARE AND PLASTICS. THIS IS A GRUELING PROCESS THAT TAKES HOURS TO APPLY THE NEW HARDWARE TO THE PLAYFIELD. PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE BOLT AND SCREW WERE REPLACED ON THE PLAYFIELD. ALL NEW COILS WERE INSTALLED ALONG WITH ALL NEW POP BUMPERS. BRAND NEW RAMPS WERE INSTALLED ON THE PLAYFIELD AS WELL. THE PLAYFIELD IS FINISHED OFF WITH ALL NEW RUBBERS AND LED LIGHTS. IMAGINE PLAYING ON A PLAYFIELD THAT IS BETTER THAN IT WAS FROM THE INITIAL BALLY FACTORY. THESE PLAYFIELDS ALWYAS EXHIBIT A TON OF WEAR, SO IT IS AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO SEE A PLAYFIELD THAT LOOKS BRAND SPANKING NEW. IMAGINE HOW GREAT IT IS TO HAVE ALL YOUR FLIPPERS AND FLIPPER ASSEMBLIES BRAND NEW TO ENABLE YOU TO HIT EVERY SHOT IN THE GAME. PLEASE LOOK AT THE PICS TO SEE HOW ABSOLUTELY STUNNING THIS PLAYFIELD IS. THE CABINET WAS FULLY SANDED DOWN AND PAINTED THE ICONIC FATHOM COLORS ON THE INSIDE AND THE OUT OF THE CAB. THIS IS A HIGH QUALITY PAINT JOB AND THE COLORS ARE STUNNING. THE CABINET AND THE CABINET ARTWORK IS SIMPLY STUNNING. PLEASE LOOK AT THE PICTURES TO SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL THE CABINET LOOKS. IT IS A PLEASURE TO SEE A CABINET THAT IS NOT ALL FADED AND BEAT TO HECK. THE CABINET IS A STUNNING EXAMPLE AND FEATURES A COUPLE VERY SMALL NICKS FROM MOVING. THE BACKGLASS IS AN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING WORK OF IT AND THIS ONE IS A BRAND NEW. IT LOOKS GREAT AND REALLY FINISHES OFF THE PIN NICELY. ADDITIONALLY THE SCORE DISPLAYS WERE REPLACED WITH LEDS ONES. OUR INCREDIBLE TEAM OF TECHS HAVE MADE SURE THE PIN PLAYS AS IT SHOULD WITH NO ERRORS. THE GAME IS PURE FUN AND IS LOADED WITH 3 FLIPPERS, 3 CLASSIC POP BUMPERS, 9 CLASSIC DROP TARGETS, SMOOTH RAMP SHOTS, FAST MULTIBALL ACTION AND MY FAVORITE ABSOLUTE STUNNING PLAYFIELD ARTWORK. IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR A FULLY RESTORED EXAMPLE OF THIS GAME WITH A BRAND NEW PLAYFIELD AND HARDWARE, A STUNNING CABINET THAT WAS REPAINTED TO ORIGINAL SPECS AND ONE THAT WAS WORKED ON BY PROFESSIONAL TECHS THEN DO NOT MISS THIS ONE. ALL GAMES CAN BE PLAYED AND VIEWED IN PERSON AT OUR SHOWROOM IN JUPITER FLORIDA. I WILL SAY WITH CONFIDENCE THAT YOU WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND A NICER RESTORED EXAMPLE ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET. RULES ARE DIFFERENT IN EACH STATE AND COUNTY AT THIS TIME SO PLEASE BE UNDERSTANDING. WE HAVE A 5000 SQUARE FOOT SHOW ROOM WITH OVER 75 GAMES, AND JUST HAD A NICE ARTICLE PUBLISHED ABOUT US IN THE PALM BEACH POST. WE ARE ALSO A STERN AUTHORIZED NEW PINBALL DISTRIBUTOR. MUST BE TRACTOR TRAILER ACCESSIBLE. CAN DELIVER AND SET UP LOCALLY AS WELL. Any questions please feel free to ask. THIS GAME IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY IN OUR JUPITER FLORIDA SHOWROOM ALONG WITH OVER 50 PINS YOU CAN COME CHECK OUT AND PLAY. CURRENTLY WASHINGTON STATE AND MINNESOTA ARE ACTIVELY COLLECTING, WITH OTHER STATES SOON TO FOLLOW.

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Up for sale is this Original 1981 Bally Fathom, the game is in really good condition for its age. Please note the game was made in 1981 and show signs of use and wear. Game was just fully service has brand new rubber and plays fantastic really cool, pinball machine, not the remake, the real one made in 1981 looks pretty killer for its age most of these Fathom pinball machines were absolutely beaten to death although this cabinet has some dings and a few bumps and bruises looks really good still these have all disappeared. Don’t miss out it won’t last. And I can help you with that. Flexible lowball offers will be ignored serious inquiries serious buyers only no Time Waster’s. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Arcade, Jukeboxes & Pinball\Pinball\Machines”. The seller is “sandrhinma-0″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Brand: Bally
• Year: 1981
• Original/Reproduction: Original

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This is a fully working, fully shopped Fathom pinball game. We have fully shopped it and replaced all of the rubber bands with new ones. We have also replaced all of the light bulbs with new Cointaker LEDs (the best you can get). Every single bulb, switch, coil, target, display segment, sound effect, voice, etc is working great. The lamp driver board is new. The sound board (squawk and talk) is fully working with sound effects and speech (which can be a problem on this era Bally). All of the PCBS in this game have had the connector headers reflowed with fresh solder to ensure good connections. NOTE: The displays all work perfectly and have no burns or flaws of any kind. The pictures unfortunately make it look like the displays are not working, because this darn iPhone doesn’t allow my to adjust the shutter speed. It is such a fast shutter speed that it catches the displays while drawing the digits and makes them look broken. Trust me, to the human eye, they look and function perfectly. If anyone knows how to adjust the shutter speed on an iPhone 12 please message me. This is a pinball on which Bally pulled out all the stops. There are a ton of features and mechanics on the playfield, and all of them are working well on this pinball. There are two banks of inline drop targets that are self-dropping. These are very complex assemblies, and both are fully working (also have brand new targets installed). The inlanes / outlanes are brilliantly designed on this game because you can actually save the ball on EITHER, and you can also lose the ball on either. It requires practice and skill to learn how to keep the ball in play on these lanes. The rules on Fathom are quite deep and rich – which is unusual for games of this era which were typically very basic. This game also has awesome, iconic sound effects and voices. The game has new balls and lock. The quarter coin mechs work so you can use it as a piggy bank if you wish. And it is probably not necessary for me to mention how absolutely amazing and gorgeous the artwork is on this game – from the cabinet to the playfield to the best ever backglass artwork. This game is TRULY a work of art. Not that I would encourage such an attitude or behavior. If I had anything left to prove to my friends and family, I would keep this. But there is no need at this point. I remember playing fathom when I was a kid, and have very fond memories. My dad used to take me out to dinner and when we would go to a downtown Normal, IL restaurant called Subconcious (sub shop), they had one game – a Fathom pinball. He would let me play it, which was rare believe me. But it sure was not a waste – that game was fun. But actually it was a waste because I was not good at pinball and Fathom can be a VERY hard game for a beginner, so my games were over very quickly. Sorry for my long-winded description here…. I noticed when looking up information on Fathom that someone is working on a remake of Fathom, due out sometime in the future. Man, if that doesn’t tell you how great a game this is, I don’t know what will. The idea that people will pay over 11,000 for a copy of this game with no significant changes, when they could have this original shopped, fully working one for only 9,000. Here is a video I took showing that the game is fully working. CONDITION and RATINGS for THIS SPECIFIC MACHINE. This cosmetic condition of this Fathom is excellent. It is not perfect by any means, but without a doubt way above average. The playfield does have a few worn spots in the paint. But they are not very noticeable and don’t stand out at all. That is partly due to the complexity of the artwork, it actually kind of camouflages the worn spots. And other than those few small spots, the artwork is in great shape. The playfield plastics are all perfect as far as I can tell. I just didn’t want to wait a week for the new parts to come in before photoing and listing this. But the rest of the plastics appear to be perfect. I think I mentioned that the bumper caps and rings, the top lanes, and all the targets have been replaced with brand new ones. The backglass LOOKS perfect from the front. However, there is a small bit of paint lifting along the bottom edge of the glass if you remove the glass and look at it from the back side. I have taken a couple pictures to show this. But from the front it still looks perfect and shouldn’t get any worse if the game is taken care of. The cabinet is in very good, solid, condition with no water damage. The paint on the cabinet has been touched up with digitally color matched paints, and looks very good. The coin door is in excellent condition and has working coin mechs and an original coin box. If you need any more pictures or have any questions, please let me know – I’m happy to answer. PLAYFIELD PLASTICS: 9.5/10. STANDARD GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SOLID STATE PINBALL SHOPPING. When we shop a solid state pinball, here is what that includes. 1 Removed most everything from the playfield. 2 Clean, wax, and polish entire playing surface. 3 Replace all above-playfield light bulbs with new LED bulbs. 4 Replace all below-playfield light bulbs with new LED matching colored bulbs. 5 Replace all rubbers with new ones. 6 Re-install all above playfield plastics and hardware after thorough cleaning. 7 Remove backglass, replace all bulbs with LEDs. 8 Make sure all features of pinball are working properly. 9 Scrub, clean, and touch up cabinet to the best of our limited ability. 10 Install new lock on front door. 11 Install new ball(s). There are probably a few other things we do, but that’s the gist of it. This game is located in sunny, beautiful downtown McLean, IL 61754. We have over 140 playable games and luxurious arcade-themed lodging options. Contact me for more details or look for hotel Arcadia on airbnb. They will bring it right inside your house (ground floor only). This is for the 48 contiguous United States only. In some rare cases possibly longer. What I CAN guarantee is that if you pick the game up, or if not when the game leaves my hands, it will be exactly as described and photoed above. I’m a fair, honest guy… This item is in the category “Collectibles\Arcade, Jukeboxes & Pinball\Pinball\Machines”. The seller is “vintagevideogames.arcadia” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Year: 1981
• Brand: Bally

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THIS IS THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER FATHOM FROM BALLY. THIS GAME WAS TRULY LOVED BY ITS OWNER AND IT SHOWS. BY FAR THE NICEST EXAMPLE OF THIS PIN I HAVE EVER SEEN. THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN DONE TO THIS GAME. PLAYFIELD WAS STRIPPED TO ITS CORE, TOUCHED UP TO ORIGINAL SPECS, 4 LAYERS OF CLEARCOAT APPLIED FOR LIFE LONG PROTECTION. LITHIUM BATTERY INSTALLED ON THE MAIN CPU BOARD. NEW BALLY LEGS INSTALLED. NEW NINJA PINBALLS INSTALLED. NEW POST, PLASTICS, ROLLOVER TATEGETS, ETC INSTALLED WHERE NEEDED OTHERWISE ORIGINAL WERE USED. NEW INCANDESCENT BULBS INSTALLED INCLUDING MANY COLORED ONES. GAME HAS BEEN IN THE SAME COLLECTORS HOME FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS. IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR AN OUT OF THIS WORLD FATHOM THEN LOOK NO FURTHER. AS STATED THE PLAYFIELD LOOKS FABULOUS ESPECIALLY WITH THE COLORED INCANDESCENTS AND CLEARCOATED PLAYFIELD. MINOR WEAR ON THE PLAYFIELD THAT WAS PREDOMINANTLY NICELY TOUCHED UP. THE GAME PLAYS SUPER FAST AND PLAYS AS IT SHOULD WITH NO ERRORS. ALL ORIGINAL BOARDS BECAUSE IF IT’S NOT BROKE THEN LEAVE IT ALONE. CABINET IS A NICE ORIGINAL WITH EXCELLENT ORIGINAL COLORS AND MINOR NICKS AND SCRATCHES FOR A GAME OF THIS AGE. THE BACK GLASS IS ONE OF THE NICEST ORIGINALS YOU WILL EVER SEE WITH ONLY VERY MINOR IMPERFECTIONS. THE GAME PLAYS IS FANTASTIC AND EVEN INCLUDES MULTI BALL. THE GAME PLAY IS CLASSIC BALLY 3 DROP TARGETS, ROLLOVER TARGETS AND PLENTY OF DROP TARGETS. THIS GAME IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART BUT FOR THE COLLECTOR LOOKING FOR A REALLY NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS CLASSIC PIN. WE HAVE A 2000 SQUARE FOOT SHOW ROOM WITH OVER 75 GAMES, AND JUST HAD A NICE ARTICLE PUBLISHED ABOUT US IN THE PALM BEACH POST. WE ARE ALSO A STERN AUTHORIZED NEW PINBALL DISTRIBUTOR. MUST BE TRACTOR TRAILER ACCESSIBLE. CAN DELIVER AND SET UP LOCALLY AS WELL. THIS GAME IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY IN OUR JUPITER FLORIDA SHOWROOM ALONG WITH OVER 50 PINS YOU CAN COME CHECK OUT AND PLAY. CURRENTLY WASHINGTON STATE AND MINNESOTA ARE ACTIVELY COLLECTING, WITH OTHER STATES SOON TO FOLLOW. The item “BALLY FATHOM PINBALL MACHINE PARTIALLY RESTORED SUPER NICE PIN RARE” is in sale since Friday, January 17, 2020. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Arcade, Jukeboxes & Pinball\Pinball\Machines”. The seller is “wilddave28″ and is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Year: 1981
• Brand: Bally

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Fathom 4 player pinball machine by Bally 1981. Game is completely gone through by Orange County Pinballs, a full service pinball shop. Game goes through a rigorous refurbishment process and service checklist by professional pinball technicians to make sure it is 100% fully operational and looks great! All electronic boards are inspected, serviced, repaired and any burnt connectors replaced. Fuses are checked and correct fuse values installed (safety issue to prevent damage to the game or a fire). Cabinet vacuumed, outside of cabinet cleaned and inspected for any issues. Playfield is stripped down and all plastics, ramps and mechanisms are cleaned and the playfield is polished. If the game has plastic ramps they are flame polished to restore clarity and appearance. Flippers are rebuilt with new plungers, links and coil stops to ensure the strongest possible flippers. All rubber rings are replaced and all new lightbulbs installed. All switches are checked, adjusted or replaced. All coils and mechanisms are checked, adjusted or replaced. New sheet of tempered playfield glass. Locks with keys for full access inside the machine. Also the location must be tractor trailer accessible. The item “Fathom Pinball Machine Restored Coin Op Bally 1981 Free Shipping” is in sale since Saturday, November 23, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Arcade, Jukeboxes & Pinball\Pinball\Machines”. The seller is “pinsidertrading” and is located in Fullerton, California. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Year: 1981
• Brand: Bally

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