Match-Ball Wall-flipper german wallgame

Here's another rare game that you don't see often.. A german pinball wallgame, Match-Ball.
This type of wallgames was very popular in germany, especially in the 70ies. A lot of different types exist and you often see them for sale at shows (working and non-working). Most types however are of the Rotamint type, a kind of gambling machine. Skillgames also exist in this wallgame layout, but this specific type of wall-pinball machine I had never come across before.

So a game with flippers, small enough to hang somewhere in a corner in my gameroom ? I had to have it !
I had bought two of these machines (together with the Rally skillgame). One was missing its coin mechanisme, the other had it but had a broken front. So with both machines I could make one nice, complete game.. or so I thought..

Can you imagine my suprise when I came home and noticed both machines were missing their cpu board ?
I did have the schematics, this main board didn't look too complicated, so I thought I could reproduce this cpu board.
But after a year of having these two machines in storage, I had to make room, so I sold them to another collector.

Looking back I regret selling this machine. Now I've discovered the Arduino project, I would try to interface an Arduino board with the internals of this game and program it according to my own rules. Would probably have been a much interesting and even easier project than trying to repro the original cpu board.

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