1970's Spanish Playmatic Pinball Technical - how it differs from American Machines

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool video for you this evening this is a video I'm going to show you this cool pinball machine we got in it's a play Matic New World and I figured I'd shoot this separate video I have one showing the gameplay and all that but I figured I'd shoot their separate video for all of you techies out there who work on these electromechanical games that might have been curious like I was over the years what's the difference between this which is a game that was built in Spain and the American version I mean the American games that we're all familiar with if you work on them from Bally Williams and Gottlob or the three main ones in America but this is a Spanish built game so I figured I'd shoot a little video and show you some of the some of the differences because they used all different parts now there were some and again we'll get into the into the leads for all of the pinball walks out there there were there were some other games built in Spain from different companies again this is a play Matic that were like Rossell and things like that and famously Sega had Sonic out of Spain I think it's Sonic si I believe it may have been called but I haven't gotten any of those but I've heard that some of those used a lot of like the Williams parts or that the resell ones some of those were copies of the Gottlob games this is not a copy and this is not using those play Matic is not a copy and it's not using any of the parts out of any other machine it is a completely original game and in some ways I'll show you some of the stuff in some ways it's better designed than the American ones in other ways it might fall a little flat but first of all the the most striking thing about them is the way the play field was done I've still got the glass on this one I'll take it off here in a minute but the play field let me go ahead and do that I'll take the glass off and then we'll start on the play field and then we'll open it up and I'll show you all of the inner workings and how everything's kind of put together alright so the glass magically disappeared in the other video I was showing I got a good angle here where I can show how the play field is done these things were covered with like a really thick kind of lacquer or something that looks like maybe it was brushed on by hand and this is factory this is not something somebody did afterwards look at that you can see the brushstrokes in it which I know some people probably won't like but that makes it where this thing has stood the test of time it has a little bit of like look at that just minor we're in that clear coat but in general this thing is in new shape I mean it's really held up so they really did a good job of that you can also see it pretty heavy in the shooter lane I mean that just poured it on there folks and it made it where it's lasted a long time to the point where look at that it doesn't really even have a ball track worn in it there's a there's a minor track you can see if you mess with it in the clear coat but it's you know they really did a good job look at the look at the shine on that thing that's just with regular wax so that's different of course things like the targets like check that out the targets are really thick they're made out of plastic but you know twice as thick earth maybe in three times as thick is the American targets that you might see on a Bali or something the the plastics are even thicker look at this the plastics are so these are things that are actually better on this machine than the American versions in my opinion the plate the the back glass is is in good shape on this one it does have a little bit of flaking at the bottom like you see in some of the American stuff so I imagine they're silk-screened they're silk screening process was probably similar another thing that I mentioned in the other video these had six digits on their scores the last two are dummy reels and I'll show you in the back how they did that as an interesting - and then one of the most striking things about the game is that the the cabinet is pressed wood that has like a laminate on it you can see right here I've touched it up because the laminate had chipped off and you can see the exposed edge of the the pressed wood there so whenever you get one of these you'll get that a lot where this is just flaking off and this one's in very nice shape still but I've got a resale and storage that's made the same way and like a third of the paint is flaking off of it don't really know how they did it like that but here's the shooter again this appears to be all custom and the the spring seems like it had a shorter spring on it so the thing was real sloppy so I looked around and had a longer spring but it still feels a little bit light like maybe it should even have a more a longer spring on it so I guess that's different the coin door is similar to the Williams ones as you can see it doesn't have a hinge underneath data the coin things you can see here on the back that the sockets are completely original you know the American ones did not look like that these coin shoots similar to Williams but not not the same of course it's just got generic quarter coin mechs in it right now the coin switches mount sideways which isn't really a bad design it just it's all custom stuff I'm sure you could use parts from something else too to replace whatever problems you had but it's all kind of original stuff I'll pull up the schematics and we'll look at them for a second and then we'll we'll go on to see what's inside all right so I was fortunate this thing still had the schematics in it I'm pretty sure that you can get them fairly easily online you can get reprints and things I believe from like pinball resource I think he tries to keep in pretty much everything he can get his hands on so I'm sure you could get these if you needed them somewhere but there's similarity you know the traditional schematics that everybody's used to I saw a couple interesting things on the way they wired it check this out right here coming off the the transformer and you got a bunch of different voltages there you know for export and European voltages I guess but look at this see the like the two pop bumpers notice that they have their own plug the SL I think is slate they have their own plug like a Jones plug and you've got here where it says 28 Volt 30 volt 33 volt and then look at this the two flippers have their own plug that MA I think is maroon and it has its own Jones plug so what you're looking at here is adjustable voltage you can plug those into 28 and if that's not strong enough for you 30 and if that's not strong enough for you 33 so you can adjust the voltage of the bumpers and the flippers in my opinion that's yet another way that this is a little bit better than the way the American designs were and we'll see some stuff here in a minute that isn't isn't all that great but I'm trying to see if I can think of anything else that was unique whenever I went through this sucker you'll see whenever we get inside that the score motor is kind of different but the there was a thing here too where you've got a couple relays here that turn on various banks of you know that make it where the power is not available unless these two relay normally-closed switches are closed you've got a nice little list over here too that tells you all of the all of the relays and what they're called so we've got a the replay relay second coin start relay first coin 100,000 points hundred points thousand points 500 points control rows 10,000 words control player's relay the whole relay triple bonus bumpers one and two double bonus score bumper add score button replay reset unit first player second player third player four player advanced bonus control reset unit add score last ball score first player second player third player fourth player the bonus relay shoot again relay 5,000 points the balls relay the control balls return now those two they're the balls relay and the control balls return that gave me some fits trying to figure that out for a little bit to figure out how to get the the ball count unit to work target ABC tilt second player third player fourth player match relay selector I can't think of anything really you want it that was completely strange but we'll open it up and kind of show you what's going on underneath the hood all right so on this cabinet at least this prop rod over here is completely useless if you try to put the playfield up like it is it just does one of these numbers like they do sometimes because there's nothing back here to hold it in place so I don't know if this particular machine just has something missing or what but the prop rod you cannot use there's absolutely no way to use it it feels like there should be another one on the other side but there's not there's no there's no hole for it or anything you know over here you've got your two prop rod holes but it's useless so let's check this out we have this green wire here with the Jones plugging on it I have no clue where that even goes I couldn't find anything to plug it into and it comes off of this Jones plugs Jones plug here now these Jones plugs are the ones like this I think those are usually in the valleys those things are not that great you know if you've ran into that before they Bend easy and they break and so not really unimpressed with that but again some of the Americans were like that too American ones were like that too so again it's not really a slam on the Spanish construction you got your replay settings here on the Jones plug not really sure what that one's for okay and then you get three fuses easy to get to here play board fuse light bucks fuse 30 volt fuse that's pretty typical and you've got your score cam here that's easy to get to the switches everything's easy to adjust and clean the switches seem like to me like look at this one here this is the the runway switch they seem a little thinner than some of the ones that some of the American ones that you see but we ran into one problem with the switch tax something you know of course people have been working on this machine but one of the problems that we ran into is see these you know an American machines usually these are bakelite spacers on this particular one these are plastic spacers but that's not the problem these are riveted together see the rivets so these rivets are riveted to this mounting plate here we ran into four sets of these that these rivets just weren't holding in place they had broken off on the mounting plate so we had stacks of switches just hanging which of course the game wouldn't work so what we had to do one a few of them was put put a screw in it into the wood just make sure it's not real fit you know real long where it's gonna go all the way through your play filter anything you could also buy a new replacement switch stack but you'd still have to mount it with screws which is how they were mounted and most of the American ones and then on some of these like on you can see it good here if that man I don't like how that lights blinking so much but on this one notice they've used good screws with nuts on it to hold it together but on this one here it's got the rivets these rivet ones are a problem so if you get one check that out I had like I said four sets of them broke you can see on this drop target assembly here they used a big old stack but they had again screws with nuts on it so no issue so you want to run them to different things but all of the relays are very well labeled and it's screened or painted on the board so that you can tell what every relay is easily it not only tells you the the letter but it tells you the you know the description what it does and all in that everything is even sorted and pretty good in the right place like the you know there's your second player third player fourth player right next to each other this is the ball unit here now that's labeled where it tells you what each unit does but you can figure it out pretty easily okay I don't feel like taking that back apart maybe I can get a good picture of this check out how the yeah there you go check out how the contacts work on that ball this is the this is the bonus unit see how wide the contacts and everything are in there big old plates that the that the rivets whether or not rivets that the pins can go around and hit so very well-designed very solid connection you know on the American ones you just had a little rivet and you have to line it up to where the leg lands just on the rivet well not that's not a problem on this one if you're even close it's gonna be on the on that plate again just a different way of doing it I hope you can see that good I don't want to take that whole thing back apart you've got this little boy here which is the spin relay so this pulls in this pulls in and connects to a different spot on these two bakelite boards it's similar to how I can match unit works and a lot of the American ones and then you've got on the bottom of the playfield tons more relays much more over here and again they are all labeled so these have long wires you can pull them out ran into one problem it took me forever to figure it out because I'm an idiot but I'll mention it here hopefully it'll save you some time okay notice how these little pins hold the relays then see this little hairpin thing here so the relay goes through and then that little pin clips around it well I was putting them all in with this this end piece here sticking up you know because it was just easier for me to push it in and leave it like that well the problem I was running into what that relay does it won't start the game but the bumper relay okay the problem I was running into is I was getting things weren't working right and I was getting some relays buzzing so like my my my hold relay was buzzing really loudly and so I looked at it looked at it I could not figure it out and then finally I figured out what the hell was going on I had this thing turned so that that metal pin was sticking up and you see that white space in there when the whole relay would pull in that white actuator would hit the pin and instead of getting a good solid you know where it would pull it all any way in like it wants to it would be fighting it and buzzing like hell like the loudest buzzing ever on a relay so I thought that the relay was burnt up so I ordered another coil put it in same thing so what you have to do is you have to go around and either turn them upside down like that or turn them like this one where they're crooked see how it's crooked where it's out of the way of that actuator check that that was a big deal I have about three of them that were stopping it from doing its thing because I'm a but there we go now another thing about these that's different is the switches the the the rollovers are plastic but it's a really thick like ABS type almost plastic so they don't break or anything I don't seem to and they work great so that's kind of different from what you usually see in the American ones and the flippers it had big ol Hardy flippers I had to replace this coil they had hacked it up pretty bad the coil stops are like kind of an l-shaped little thing you might have trouble getting those I don't know if anybody makes reproductions of those or not but the ones I had were in pretty good shape so I don't have to worry about it the chime set I think that's kind of similar to the Gottlob one I'm not I think the Gottlieb's have these pins on them like that may not might be wrong about that but I had a problem with this one where it was rattling a little bit what it was doing you can see right here I've turned it upside down see the little Nick's on the side what it was doing again it's upside down what it was doing was it was rattling and hitting the plate beneath it so as it would hit it would so rattled and the reason it was doing that is because there give me a while to figure this up - there is a support right there that holds it up on the end and it was bent you can see it's still bent a little bit maybe I bend it up a little more but this little this little support right here was bent down a little bit so this plate was a little low which was making it rattle little things you figure out so let's see what else if there's anything else in the in the body here that I can show you yeah one last little thing let me show you that jumper for the voltage it might be upside down but there you are check that out so there's two slots for 28 Volt - thoughts for 30 volt - slots for 33 volts so you can put those flippers which i've got in the 30 volt and then of the the slate-colored one as they call it is the pops and the pops are in the 33 volts so i've got the pop bumper set up hot stronger than the flippers actually but as you saw in the thing that from the flippers were nice and strong but there you go so that's the bottom of it I'll take the back off and show you the back box - it's a little different and show you the just trying to show you all the mechanical differences in this as compared to like an American machine be right back alright so we'll check out the back box a little bit the back door is really nice just kind of a stamp thing like usual they did the edge of it a little different that what you see the American ones were also used to on the bottom channel that has these little lips that hold it all in place works out great you can see the particle board construction which I suppose if it doesn't get wet is great it has a similar you know where you pull the latches back like on a lot of the EMS that were used to it has these neat little lever setups to pull the score rails out i'll pull one out to show you that is similar i can't remember the company in america that did that same thing but so it's got that like what kind of latches it in place it's got your little circuit board here on the end to do the match with i didn't have any bad solder joints on that i did have some bad solder joints on the end of stroke switch which isn't on this reel but see that there's actually two in destruct switch is on each one I had some of those where the wire the solder had broken loose so I had to resolder about three or four of those so look for that another thing about these is that the coil wrappers are falling off of every coil in the game so if that kind of thing bothers you get ready to put a lot of tape on them or whatever the reels are easy to clean you know how a lot of the American reels whenever you clean them the paint comes off well these you don't have that problem you can do whatever you want to them the numbers don't start to run or anything and they have a really nice action where they just well if I can get it it's hard to do this and hold a camera at the same time you can see that they've got a just a nice click they run through mess it up I hit it with my hand they have a real nice I'll show you that last one you see you know they click right through no problems at all the way the the way the they did the switches here check that out you might actually be able to see something so we're in position one and your middle one is the only one that's closed down the middle ones closed three four five six seven okay so here we go nine swings down and makes the bottom one in the middle and still made and then zero swings way up makes the top one and opens the bottom two now I don't really like how it makes that top one because you know what that means if you've got one freaking dirty switch on any of them it's not going to reset properly but that's how they designed it and I didn't have that problem I mean it worked fine for me so we'll slide this back in there I can do that here in a minute and then interestingly enough the two dummy reels are on the front of its own little thing but you can't pull it out because it's in front of the wood so whatever and the way they the way they did the lighting was really interesting there's a bulb that needs messed with a little bit the way they did the lighting was really interesting so on each score real we're in game over right now half of the lights are lit so as you can see two four I guess sixes down to four and six are lit up on all of them well whenever it's that players turn so for instance score first player t1 score first player one of the things the tenth relay does is it turns on all six lights so it's slightly brighter than the other ones interesting way to do it and the coin unit is similar to the American ones this little match unit is really neat I don't know if an American company had one like this but check this out there is a little match rule with three digits on it and then there's this contraption over here where these two coils hide or display with this blinder the match so I need another three hands but let's see if I could make it do anything so right now it's showing you 900 I'm hitting the wrong one little blind goes up over it while the game's playing and then comes down at game over just why would they go through all that trouble but whatever and you can kind of see how the the lock system works there this one slide feels pretty good check out out try to get this other one in where it goes same with it so as you can see it's a nice clean little setup of course you get your Jones plugs and everything lots of relays and again they're all kind did silkscreen what they all do and what they are so they're yeah but that is a Spanish made play Manik New World pinball machine I hope you liked the video just trying to show you a little bit of the differences because to me it was pretty interesting I've never messed with one of these but I think in some ways and you might agree a lot of the things that we saw it's designed better than the american-made ones sent in some ways maybe not and again remember this was 1976 so the American companies have been designing him a long time giving the Spanish companies a good idea of what to do to make to make the things work well but there you have it so I will I'll go ahead and end this but if you watch I got the rest of our videos on our website we've got a lot of got a lot of videos up every time we get a new game in we film a video showing kind of the the design and the gameplay of it and so uh you can also check out all of our games that we have for sale at any moment in time on our website at Lyons arcade calm now if you live anywhere near so you can come by and check us out we're in downtown Rock Hill South Carolina which is about 15 miles south of Charlotte North Carolina and we've got a whole room full of stuff here at all times so we will see you on the next video make sure to subscribe