She’s alive! Paragon is up and running and playing great! After re-pinning most of the connectors both for the MPU and the solenoid board, reflowing solder on the header pins and replacing the solenoid board capacitors, the game boots and plays perfectly. All the coils fire correctly, the drops reset as they should and the…
Update on our Paragon progress! We’re starting the restoration by getting the machine electronically running before we dig into the mechanical and cosmetic issues. After testing the rectifier board for the proper voltages, I put a new Alltek Ultimate MPU in the game in order to get it to boot since the original MPU is…
October 11, 2022 As a collector, I have a running list of games that I’d like to own someday and Bally’s 1979 wide body Paragon has been on that list since I first began owning pinball machines almost 20 years ago. And today, through a stroke of amazing luck, I found my Paragon. I was…
