This Old Pinball Restoration Videos
"This Old Pinball" (TOP) repair & restoration DVD videos cover pinball and other coin operated arcade games. Mechanical, electronic, and aesthetic restoration is covered. The videos are hosted by the infamous "Shaggy" and "Norm" (of This Old House TV fame?) Who is "Shaggy", you ask? Well he's a nutbar (is that his *real* hair? yea sure, duh) originally from Rochester, NY who likes restoring coin operated games. Norm, the never-seen camera man, is Shaggy's creative sidekick with a Bostonian accent and a knack for woodworking. Their pinball repair videos have been reviewed in several magazines, including Gameroom Magazine and the Pingame Journal. "If you like your serious pinball repair laced with madcap humor, then this and the other TOP videos are for you" (Pingame Journal, issue #85/86).

The majority of the money from the TOP video sales goes to Tim Arnold's non-profit "Las Vegas Pinball Collector's Club". Also known as the "Pinball Hall of Fame" (PHoF). They have been saving to buy or lease a building in Las Vegas where approximately 200 working vintage pinball machines from the 1930s to the 1990s will be displayed & operated. And the dream has come true - as of January 2006 th PHoF is now open in Las Vegas! And as of November 2009 the PHoF has bought a new building, doubling its size. The proceeds after rent, electricity, etc will be donated to the Las Vegas Salvation Army.

Video Pricing.
All the following video prices include shipping! Note all orders can take up to a week for us to process. Sometimes we're very fast, other times we're backed up. Note the U.S. Postal service has increased postage costs *significantly*. In North America we used to be able to send our DVDs for about $1 postage. Now it's nearly $5. Yikes! Overseas is even worse!! Even postage to Canada is crazy expensive. This has caused us to raise prices on the DVDs unfortunately. Over the years we have absorbed all mail rate increases, but this has put us over the edge. Therefore we had to increase the price of the TOP DVDs. Sorry! We used to sell these for $8 each including postage not too long ago. But unfortunately those days are long gone thanks to increases (largely) in postage (though those freakin' DVD plastic covers have gotten expensive too!)

    For United States orders:
    $12 each, sent "First Class mail". Please allow 3 to 14 days for shipping.

    For Canadian orders:
    $18 u.s.d. each. Please allow 7 to 28 days for shipping. Yea it's that slow. Unfortunately Canadian Customs is hell, they move even slower than us. It used to be cheap to ship to Canada too, but that all changed during 2013-2018. We used to be able to ship a DVD to Canada for $1. Those days are LONG gone!

    For Overseas orders:
    $24 u.s.d. each, sent air mail. Please allow 7 to 28 days for shipping. Certain parts of the world are really slow (South America), others some what faster (U.K.) Again, we apologize on this pricing. Not too long ago we used to be able to send a DVD to say the UK for like $3. Now it's over $10 for shipping. The U.S. Postal service has dramatically increased the cost for all international shipping. That's why the overseas price is so high. Sorry!

The only way to buy the DVDs is to send a check. Sorry we do *not* use paypal or other payment methods. You will have to email us for an address.

All DVD videos are NTSC format with no region code, two hours. These videos are all in fun and contain TONS of information on game restoration and repair, and the money goes to a good pinball cause. Any questions or comments, email:
cfh@provide.net

Question: Why do you guys take so long to release a new video?
Answer: It's all Norm's fault. Really it is. Blame him.

The TOP video #8 is available. This video is a bit different and interesting, and covers EM (electro-mechanical) ball bowler and shuffle alley restoration and repair. Trailer for TOP#8 is available for your online viewing pleasure.

TOP#7 Info and On-line Trailer Video. The TOP7 video, "Banzai Wars", has a streaming two minute teaser sample video available for view in your browser.

Shaggy and Norm worked on this video for two years, and it's available for your eyes! The popularity of 1980s and 1990s pin games has really skyrocketed, so Norm and the Shagster felt it was time to do a video about restoring these great games. Covered is repair and restoraton of Williams System 11 (1985 to 1990) and DataEast (1987 to 1995) pinball games. Though much of this information could certainly be applied to other brands and eras of pin games. Note TOP7 has some language and suggestive content that is not intented for kids.

Of course the purchased videos are much higher quality than the web video teasers.