Great timing! My wife and I just bought Elektra off Pinside and it's shipping today!

We've never played it but love the look and 3 levels so are excited for its arrival.

"You have been exposed to Elektra's radiation, will you return?"

Speak of the devil - I mean seller! burningman is waiting for the shipper to pick up my precious Elektra right now.

gtown...after seeing pics of hellfires, you may want to LED it. Hellfire, that looks great!

agreed, that is some gorgeous lighting, nice mix of colors, Hellfire.

Great looking game Hellfire. I will have one in my collection...someday!!!

I have attempted to compile a list of rules for Elektra. However, by the time I get to the 20th rule, I forget all the others and my head starts to hurt... It does have the most overly complicated rule-set up to that point in pinball history I have ever encountered.

I am now attempting to do this since there is an official love-fest thread...

I know things are missing but here is a start:

LOCKING BALLS
Making green 1-2-3 targets lites left rollover button lites. These lights ate the direction they flow every 5 seconds.

Ball rolling over lit buttons in direction of travelling lites, or by dropping 2X-3X-5X "in-line" drop targets behind the captive ball, unlocks the top 4-5-6 target arrows.

Making 4-5-6 targets lites the top saucer arrow to allow for locking a ball and also lites the top right rollover button intermittently to score special.

You can light the green arrow LOWER LOCK by completing ANY set of standup targets (including the easy to hit center red targets) 5 (need to confirm this?) times.

Making 5 blue target lights:
Lites left outlane for 10 Elektra units and bottom saucer green arrow for LOCK ball.
Note: You can "lane change" the needed blue targets with the left flipper at any time.

Capturing balls in both the upper and lower LOCKS starts mulit-ball play.

OTHER STUFF
Making the 3 red targets:
1st time opens right ball return gate.
2nd time lites ball return arrow to collect bonus.
3rd time lites 2 blue target lites.
4th time lites 2 additional blue target lites.
5th time lites outlane specials, left outlane for 10 Elektra units and bottom saucer arrow for LOCK ball.

Completing 3 middle level targets? don't understand what this rule explains?
Lighting spinners? not sure here
Captive ball drop target multipliers? not sure here

HOW TO OBTAIN ELEKTRA UNITS
There a many ways. Here are some:

Completeing any bank of standup targets awards 2? Elektra units.

Making 5 blue targets:
Lites left outlane for 10 Elektra units and bottom saucer arrow for lock ball.
Note: The blue target bank becomes more and more difficult to complete. The targets needed to complete the bank change with each completed set.
Note: You can "lane change" the needed blue targets with the left flipper at any time.

Making either 1-2-3 or 4-5-6 targets in sequence or making 1 to 6 targets in any order flashes 2X target for 10? seconds.
Target must be hit when flashing to collect the double bonus.

Locking both balls awards an extra ball. (rule setting)
Maximum – 1 extra ball per ball in play (rule setting)

Striking the red target at the end of the captive ball hallway awards ? Elektra units.

EXTENDED END OF BALL PLAY (LOWER PLAYFIELD)
Mini playfield becomes active after ball-in-play enters out-hole and a minimum of (rule setting;default=6) Elektra units are achieved.

LOWER PLAYFIELD RULES
Each ball you play in Elektra can potentially be extended to the lower playfield.

Each extended ball in the lower playfield "starts fresh" and no progress "carries over" from previous extended ball play.

Your main objective is to actually NOT just hit everything or JUST keep the ball alive.
The Elektra units translate to the number of seconds you have unlimited balls while playing the lower playfield. Once all Elektra units have expired, it is sudden death and either the next ball begins or, the game ends if it's the last ball in play.
What you want to focus on is to hit the 6 orange side targets but not necessarily complete them. The reason is because striking them once lights them but they all go out after you lite them all. Striking a LIT orange target on the lower playfield awards the most points (5,000). Just lighting a target scores much fewer points (need amount here).

Lighting 5 orange targets lites the left orbit arrow.
Completing all 6 side orange targets one time flashes the center green target for 2X and hitting that green target lites it solid and collects it.
Lighting 12 orange target lites the right orbit arrow.

The lower playfield does have a bonus which increases with each target bank completion and that is displayed in the center. I believe it has a max but I don't know the amount.

Tilt penalty – Ball in play.

Thanks for this, that's a lot of rules for 1981.

Finally, I've been exposed to Elektra's radiation!

My wife and I have admired Elektra for awhile but had never played it until we got our own setup recently. Awesome pin, love the 3 playfields, plexiglass, art, multi-ball and of course scrounging for Elektra units. Very cool.
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I got one that is being shopped right now. Several boards are bad but Playfield is a 9. Hoping I can bring this back to life. Thanks for the rule set. I'm gonna need it

Just looking at some pics on here of elektra pinball machines and I just noticed something (well 2 things) what is missing on my upper playfeild. Give u a Clue there is two of them.

I have had this machine for a year now slowly fixing it up.

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I really liked this game when I had it, very interesting rules, sounds and lighting.

I have had the vector artwork done on the bottom playfield now for the past 3 years, however, the project was shut down due to the 3 Playfields issue (it's like making 2 Different Playfield Titles)....however, if we were to get enough interest in this project I may have some amunition to re-visit the idea of repro'ing this PF Set, keeping in mind that it woiuld be more expensive as it would be a 3 Playfield Set ( we lost our asses on the Black Knight Double PF Set & we are Not about to do that again )........
Stu

I knew this topic would come up quick!....The only way to do this set is as a 3 PF Set. If we did it as a 2 PF Set (Upper & Basement) ALOT of people would buy them right away > a good thing? > Not in the least!....Most customers would return them Immediately as they would never Color Match their "existing" FADED Main PF. And we all know that "blue ink" fades badly & Everyone's PF would Color Fade Differently....We would be stuck with all the sets Forever & never sell any, AND we would be at a Financial Loss forever on this project. Again, the only way this PF set would ever happen is a 3 Piece Set....Hoping everyone understands "why".....

The "re-screening" was ONLY for those that supplied a used playfield for the CNC Cad File creation, it was a way of saying Thank You as a compensation. We did away with this service years ago.....

Yep correct but the drop target is there. Makes sense having the gates. I loose the ball down the shooter lane sum times and having the gate on the mid ramp would improve the game play on the top level play field. What else is missing on my machine will have to investigate. Now just need to find some gate parts for a bally elektra!

I noticed on a few guys upper playfields they are very bad. Mines ok. I would only by new plastics most of my clear under plastics are all Brocken or very yellow.

How do u start a list on this forum to see how many guys out there would buy a playfields set or plastics.

Pole needs another category, place this on the bottom; All of the above √

Guys, you have been exposed to way too much radiation. It's a known fact that Elektra is safe when kept in an arcade. In home environment, you get way too much exposure. The only cure is to sell me your game, immediately.

I can tell you this much, Unless someone steps up with a MINT NOS Original "prototype" Backglass for scanning/artwork it will never be an option.

Why not an original backglass ?

Yes, why not just Original, and I know color loss might be something, but it is curious since they have to be scanned and fixed anyway.

it would pretty much "have to be" original, that's the point I was trying to make about the prototype.....

So far we have 4 people who want to buy Plastics Sets, 2 people wanting to buy a Playfield Set & 2 people wanting to buy a Backglass.....it's not looking good at all (which is why we haven't already done them)......

60-75 depending on how many colors there are......that's to "break-even" > not be profitable.....at the Break-even point is where we start to 'consider' the project.....Keep in mind that we have 65 other projects going that we "know" will be profitable....

I think I'll be joining the club shortly. I will be picking up an Elektra this week. What's a good price for a recently shopped machine? I'd be in for a playfield and plastics set. Possibly a backglass as well.

We settled on $725. That seemed like a fair price but I really don't have a strong sense with this title. Either way though, I'm extremely excited to be adding another classic Bally to my collection.

Just seeing if any body has info on the colours for the elektra stencils. At some stage I have to replace my back as it is terribly weatherd and the base is starting to fall out. So I'm thinking I will repaint it one day. Don't have enough balls to do it just yet.image-408.jpgimage-61.jpgimage-871.jpg

I would like to own one someday if I can find one on the left coast or buy it for the right price to have it shipped.

I am in need of plastics and I would highly consider new PlayFields for the right price.

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I have CoinTaker Premium Frosted White LEDs in all GI, and got a new Alltec MPU board and test board, and rebuilt all 6 flippers to the older style, and added new transparent blue flipper bats, with red transparent superband rubbers, and it plays AWESOME now.

I did have to remove one round rubber from in front of the upper right flipper due to the ball becoming stuck between the rubber posts and the flipper rubber at our last Expo. I really enjoy Elektra and plan to keep it for a long time.

I bought mine from a fellow Pinsider at $1000 with $400 shipping.