I purchased my Revenge from Mars from Chip Ware in Grand Rapids. I wasn’t planning on buying it I actually went to buy a Theater of Magic from him. When I got to his house I took a look at the TOM and the boards were hacked to death and a lot of things weren’t working. I don’t mind fixing problems but if some hack was in trying to fix them they usually do way more damage than good. Anyway, Chip suggested I try the RFM. I couldn’t believe how cool it was. Most people on rec.games.pinball had done nothing but slam the machine and I was very surprised at how much fun it was.

I took the machine home and played it to try and find any problems. I ended up replacing all of the micro switches because they were all flaky. I later read that Williams had problems with micro switches while these machines were being run. Shopping that machine is a dream, they whole playfield can easily be removed in 5 minutes. I took the topside completely apart and cleaned everything. I installed a NOS plastic set and a NOS metal ramp flap. I flame polished the ramps and ball deflector. I rebuilt the flippers. Then I replaced all of the bulbs and put her back together. The cabinet was in pretty good shape. The head decals were in pretty bad shape. I bought new head decals and new red t-molding and the head looks like new. I also checked the computer and cleaned it out. All-in-all it ended up being a very nice machine.