Heavy Metal Meltdown Pinball Machine - 1986 Madness! Bally Classic

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool video for you this evening check it out we got in another one this is Bally's heavy-metal meltdown you'll get that here in a minute if you've never played before this is a really cool game it's kind of legendary actually it's one of the most ridiculous pinball machines that they ever made and it's super fun so we've had I think I think this is our third one that we've had so we've been messing with it a little bit I thought you know what let's film a little video and check it out this one's in pretty good shape cabinet wise the playfield is another story but I'll show you that here in a second this was a Bally 6803 game they call them that because of the processor that it used it used a 6803 processor to run it it's which is in the the CPU board so there were only a handful of them probably maybe a dozen 6803 games this is a good example the condition of this game is a good example of things being a little misleading and if you don't know anything it's got a great light show if you don't know much about pinball machines that can show you some issues you might run into that's this thing is just out of control out of control so check out the art heavy metal meltdown okay so this guy is getting it on pretty awesome and then I believe this is a woman getting it on pretty awesome the the back box is faded a little bit whenever Bali was doing their 6803 games they were trying to cut corners and make things cheaper so the cabinets a little cheaper the most of the 6803 games I believe most not maybe not all but a lot of them don't have specific side order to that game but this one did you can see it's faded a little bit at the top let's check out the back the back box here so you got this guy he's killing it Rocco home brother rock on then you get the same guy I guess from the side back here nice big hair this came out in 1987 if there's any doubt and then you get the lady over here she's a rock chick just killing it meltdown heavy-metal meltdown bad glasses in nice shape on this one it's actually like a trans light but it it has a piece of glass over it of course but uh very nice they just used one light bulb to light it up so there's one bulb right in the middle it lights it up and then let's check out the playfield so as you can see lots of very colorful lot going on the artwork dominated by this lead guy here in the middle look at that look at that face that's our rock face it's like a Bruce Springsteen face it's like he smells something on his microphone he's killing it like they made then the bonus ladder runs up through the through the guitar neck etc etc etc and I had this weird plastic thing that covers up the the they call it the apron of course but this one's plastic very strange a lot of times when you get these the plastics are in really bad shape this one's pretty bad the plastic is pretty bad on this one too but there's an interesting little thing right here if you look real close right there it's how there's an arrow it says power booster and then there's an arrow pointing to and there's like a square out there and there's nothing there there was a drop target there at one time in the prototype game they were eventually they originally were going to put a drop target there that blocked the ramp and then they they took it out in the full production games but you can still see the spot forward on the play field so on the back you've got a little guy playing drums and everything doing this thing pretty cool game I see flashers all over it and underneath the ramp you can see these lights here this is actually a brand new ramp that we got from inside we found a gentleman on there mr. FreePlay that's his name who makes ramps and he made us this nice brand-new ramp for a heavy-metal meltdown usually they're beat all to crap this game I think they got played a lot usually they're dogged out the whole game the ramps the just everything usually is pretty beat-up but uh we still we're still working on a little bit so artworks cool we'll play it here in a minute you can see how awesome the game is and so you can see here - it says like power booster and then you've got the amp behind it and it says power amp and you've got the amp behind it and it's just it's got a great look way over the top now I was talking about how if you're not familiar with pinball machines sometimes you can miss things things can be a little misleading like for instance something that we can tell just because we've had these before these plastics here are not the right plastic somebody's remade dent if you look real close they did a good job but uh does it just been painted those are those are different ones the original ones didn't look like that so somebody's made replacement plastics for it they put on the playfield this one's the same they did a good job looks pretty good but it doesn't look anything like the originals look and you can't really get replacement plastics for this now the reason they made those is because they get beat up I mean tore all to crap just the ball flies around fast playing game and there's just I don't know if that's a design thing or what but every one of these I've had is just the plastics are banged up and so you've got things like up here see how that one's like that to get a cracked plastic up there etc etc this is a game that I wouldn't be surprised that they make new plastics for pretty soon because all of them are like that especially now the gentleman is making new ramps for it usually the ramps are all banged up and busted up but luckily we were able to get a new one very expensive though just because it's a lot of there's a lot of work in vacuum forming a one-off ramp like that where you're only doing a few of them but it looks pretty good nice and presentable now so just looking at this you might think it's in great shape kind of probably looks that way on this video but if you're if you're one of my viewers who's pretty keen on these pin balls you might already see all kinds of problems with it so not only are those three plastics wrong and not only are some of the other plastics broke but check out what they've done on the play field down here in the middle they've covered it with mylar mylar just a thin sheet like that's kind of protective see the line there so they covered it with mylar to protect it and then look at what's going on on the neck of the guitar it's as if they replace the insert or something I can't tell what they did but if you look real close there are actually nails holding it into the playfield doesn't affect the gameplay too much because they've got mylar covering it and the ball just rolls right over it but look at that this thing's been Frankenstein people pretty wild so that's keeping this game from being a really nice game now back at three or four feet you don't even see it but to a collector that would completely be a no-go I mean they wouldn't even be interested in this machine because of that so it kind of brings up this this little issue with pinball machines people that collect pinball machines or that are really into him that know a lot about him like I said a game like this they wouldn't even have in their house because of that damage to the play field to a normal person it's just gonna play it they don't even know what I'm talking about they don't even see what the deal is I mean it looks great right so it's kind of a interesting thing that you deal with whenever you're buying and selling pinball machines some people will think this thing's in very nice shape some people will think it needs to be parted out because of that problem on the play field but it is what it is folks we will we will play it a little bit so you can see you can see what's going on basically what's so cool about this game is it plays music background music while you're playing and then every time the ball hits a switch it adds like a little riff guitar riff to the background music so if you just sit there with the ball sitting cradled in the in the flipper or something or sitting in the out Lane it'll just be playing like a rock beat now there's this power amp up here this ramp you can lock balls in so you not there's you knock the ball up here into this thing and it holds it depending on how many balls are in the power amp the song changes so it's it's all just generic music but it'll play it's just like a drum beat and so the drummer's doing this thing and it's kind of like you're at a rock concert so if you start hitting the ball and it hits this switch over here it plays a different kind of little riff little guitar riff if you hit this long shot over here it says 25k and you roll it up through there and a roll over that switch it plays this long slide like a on the guitar and just different things depending on which switch you hit and it adds it all into the end of the mix of the song which is pretty fun and I'll show you that here in a second whenever we we start playing it but I'll be back in just a minute check out that life that light so I don't know if I mentioned it in the first part of the video but basically the way this thing works this game when it kicks the ball out into the into the Outland it starts playing a drum beat and then if the ball just sits there all you hear is the drums drummers on the back on the back right here and then as you hit switches instead of making little buzzes and beeps and stuff like it does on most games it actually just has this guy play lead guitar parts so depending on which switches you hit it plays different guitar stuff very creative let's try it out a little bit I'm going to turn it way up though so that it sounds good in the video so watch your ears folks keep in mind this video if you look says heavy metal in the title of the video so I don't want to hear any complaints and it actually says here on the on the apron right here it says tell them to crank it up it's up for the for the locations I guess they wanted to make sure it was high so it says instructions load balls in the power amp to advanced level that's the ramp hit flashing the level target to light the 100k ramp level target hmm not sure where that is we'll look for it load five balls for meltdown to release all balls that's in the power amp power amp shot advances the playfield value multiplier spell heavy or metal to light extra ball timer load four balls to light special spelled Jam that's the top three rollovers to advance the bonus multiplier so go for the ramp a lot that's where the cool part is so see how I've got the ball cradled so all you hear is the drums and I guess the rhythm guitar so watch as soon as I start flipping and it hits witches it adds the lead in oh I got the shot and also depending on how many balls you have you're at a different level underneath the ramps in these lights right here and so it plays a different song I was robbed yeah and so at the top where it says Jam j8m if you that's a lane change so you can change the ones that are lit up by hitting the extra buttons on the side of the cabinet and if you hit the one on the left it goes heavy and if you hit the one on the right it goes metal No let's let it right by me melt it down whoa that's a very hard that little perv got me not enough it's like everything I wanted I got the rock again - that was on the ball - that was pretty awesome rock again it says the multi-ball was awesome as you saw when you get multi-ball basically it flashes all the lights and it keeps saying heavy metal heavy metal heavy metal meltdown over and over again that's what I was hoping it would do it did not disappoint held it down people melt it down yeah and I won a ton of free games on that one it was free games after free games at the free games look they want to know who I am so they can they can brag about this put in my initials that was one of the best games I've done on one of these little demo videos that's pretty good and of course that was all Talent you know there was no luck involved alright so there you go that is Bally's heavy-metal meltdown what a cool game way over the top pretty ridiculous but I love it now by the time you see this video Bally's a heavy-metal meltdown may have toured on over to somebody else's house we may not even have it for sale anymore but you can see all of the games that we do have for sale on our website check it out at lions arcade dot-com even if it's years from now check it out and it will be up-to-date we promise if not you can you can get honest about it and now if you're not looking to buy a game then just subscribe to us here on YouTube and every time we get in a cool pinball machine or arcade game like this we'll film a little video I hope you enjoyed it I know I did I'll see you on the next video