These are all the pictures I have from start to finish on IPB’s reproduction $4500 Big Bang Bar pinball machine.  I want to thank Gene for making the reproduction BBB pins and keeping his promise to sell them at $4500usd each.  In 2005-2006, $4500 for a new in the box pinball machine was expensive.  I was buying new Stern pinball machines for about $3200usd during this time period.  So these BBB were about 40% more expensive than a new Stern game.   Gene claims that PMI lost about $2500 (on paper) per game  due to his cost to produce them but this is incorrect.   IPB bought Capcom out (all their remaining inventory, worth approx $1M) for only $20K when they went out of business.  Gene got a lot of boardsets (approx 200 CPU boards, 500 driverboards, and several hundred misc boards) in this $20K Capcom deal.  The $20K deal also included lots of plastic sets for the production Capcom games, misc hardware, a pallet of Coin Control coin doors, drop targets, a Capcom test fixture, and a handful of extra NOS Capcom playfields (Pinball Magic, Breakshoot, Airborn, Flipper Football).  IPB sold the Capcom parts to PMI (Gene’s newly formed company to make the BBB games).   PMI bought the Capcom parts from IPB and IPB sold the parts to PMI (on paper) as a profit.  PMI took the capital gains loss on BBB but IPB made big profits on the Capcom parts that he sold to PMI.  The true cost to make these new BBB games were around $3K according to Gene.  Games were made with NOS original boardsets and the translite was NOS (supplied by Mike Pacak).  The reason that Gene only made around 192 BBB games was based on how many NOS Capcom CPU boards that he had working.