I think the game does have an built in demo mode if no one is playing

I was never a Sigma Derby player, but I did like to see it and the crowd surrounding it cheering and laughing. Fortune Cup tries to replicate that, but I don’t think Konami does it justice.

You can bet that The D will get some traffic in to play it, but if they can make more on something else it will be gone. They will just put more slots there.

What, the pinball joint ain’t a casino? No! Alert the media!

The point of donating it to the HOF is not to run it as a gambling device, but to have it as a display piece. In reality, it’s unlikely an old gambling relic is really going to drive traffic, but if any place is positioned to preserve it as a relic of the past, the HOF would be that place, and they’d have a space to do it.

While the focus is on playing pinball, having a display of vintage gaming devices would be a nice way to draw non-pinheads to their new storefront when the day comes. Given they have old coin-op devices now that are based upon gambling and are not pinball machines, displaying a relic of yesteryear, a la Sigma Derby, isn’t a stretch.

It would be nice if it could be run on a demo mode if turned into a display piece, but given the maintenance issues MGM has, that would seem unlikely if it were turned into a museum piece.

The repair / upkeep cost makes it hard to run it and the Pinball Hall of Fame is not an casino.

And if the MGM machine did melts down completely then what At least I hope it was not that rom chips when bad and there are no Dumps left.

Agree with Janie Lee. I’ve only played 2 years -in the world of Sigma Derby that’s a newbie- and I have great memories and have met some cool people playing it at MGM. Sad to see it go, but I’ll definitely be making the trek down to The D a day or two next week for my mechanical ponies fix.

Interesting point. The Brothers Stevens are no fools, they know how to keep their name out there, and keep people coming to their properties. They may not be fans of the game, but given the fact it’s already a draw, and is now the only one in Vegas, unless the machine melts down completely, I gotta believe they’ll keep one of the few working relics of Vegas gambling on the floor as long as possible at this point.

MGM ought to donate theirs to the Pinball Hall of Fame. It’s not pinball, I know, but when the HOF gets that new on-strip game room open, having a cool coin-operated relic from gambling’s past would be an added draw for the non-pinheads. They already have a few old-style gambling machines that are not pinball in the current museum. (The non-craps game is amazing.)