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Bally's Judge Dredd pinball machine was originally designed to have three locked balls spinning in the deadworld simultaneously and for the crane to pick up each ball individually, releasing multiball. However operators feared the possibility of malfunction would cause the balls to be permanently stuck in the deadworld and the idea was cancelled. This resulted in the game losing it's greatest feature!

In this project we decided to recreate the game back to how, designer, Kevin O' Conner originally intended it to be. The first step was to fabricate a new deadworld orbit plastic that could hold all three balls in position and not slide off like on the current model. To make this a sheet of acrylic plastic was cut to shape using a router and then polished up to get rid of any imperfections.

The next stage was to rewire opto number 32 at the ramp entrance to allow balls to be correctly diverted into the deadworld in lock mode. This proved to be quite a challenge and involved modifying the opto board underneath the playfield.

All that was left was to install the original game rom L.1 and the game was transformed!

If you want to modify your own game you can purchase a kit off us