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Year You Bought Your First Pinball Machine ?
- Thread starter DRD
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96-2000 for me and I thought they were over priced then
From memory I think it was late 2004 - a really nice TZ my dad bought for around £1400 when I was 18. The start of an obsession.
Bought my first game in 2006. At the time there were loads on eBay. £500 would get you a DMD game. £1k a TAF/TZ etc. I remember seeing websites selling new games for 3-4 grand and wondering who would be stupid enough to spend that much. 
There again a house was about a million quid cheaper as well so I guess it’s all relative. Shame my pay hasn’t increased at the same rate…..
There again a house was about a million quid cheaper as well so I guess it’s all relative. Shame my pay hasn’t increased at the same rate…..
Late 90’s I went to a massive old warehouse in Portsmouth with that damp arcade smell full of machines and bought 2 vectors, Xenon and a Dr Who all for hundreds of pounds.
Didn't have a clue what I was doing so grabbed what I could.
Didn't have a clue what I was doing so grabbed what I could.
2006, Demo Man, £800 from ebay!!
1987 , first coin op game Circle Skill fruit machine in 1983
2005 My first pin was a SF2 on eBay at a mouth watering £175
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1986 Bally Fathom £250.
Bought a Williams Flash for £150 from the Tynemouth Plaza (which has since been demolished) and it escalated from there.
(I went back and managed to get Barracora, Mr & Mrs Pacman for £100 each and Centaur for £50
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(I went back and managed to get Barracora, Mr & Mrs Pacman for £100 each and Centaur for £50
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£175 is still more than l paid for any of the 4 sf2 that have darkened my door.
2014, Creech, £1650 in very good condition
2013 street fighter , 700 quid had it loaded in the van when I asked for the keys then the seller said oh wait I have to empty the cash box , looks like it had about 150 quid in, gutted 
Circa 2006... Wh2o... £600
Sold it when i got a TZ in a few years later.... Worst decision i ever made (Other than getting married the second time!!)...
Sold it when i got a TZ in a few years later.... Worst decision i ever made (Other than getting married the second time!!)...
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2019 LOTR £4500 from a member here who was very kind and patient with nervous old me!
I think i take top spot (for naivety at least):
Stern Star Trek Pro from Liberty Games £6,595 August 2017.
Swiftly followed by the £5k Paragon in Oct 2017. (£2.5k to buy, £2.5k to Fedex USA to UK in 36 hrs door to door).
I was really pleased with both until I joined this forum a few months later
Who cares, it’s only pinball tokens.
Stern Star Trek Pro from Liberty Games £6,595 August 2017.
Swiftly followed by the £5k Paragon in Oct 2017. (£2.5k to buy, £2.5k to Fedex USA to UK in 36 hrs door to door).
I was really pleased with both until I joined this forum a few months later
Who cares, it’s only pinball tokens.
STTNG superminty PH restore.
£850 in 2000.
Sold it in 2002 for £1000 and thought I was Warren Buffet.
£850 in 2000.
Sold it in 2002 for £1000 and thought I was Warren Buffet.
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My first pin was a Shadow for £700 in 1996 soon followed by a TZ in 1997 (£600, still have it today). Got from a collector called Cai Remrod who rented out a council squash court to store and play his pins. Cai was a great guy, drove to my house in Northampton on XMas eve to fix a fault on the Shadow as I did not know what I was doing.
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I got my first game from ChrisB in 2016.
World Cup Soccer bought off eBay in 2011 for £650 
First pin in 1981 which was a Gottlieb Flying Carpet, cost me £50
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2007 T2 given to me (dont suppose that counts) 2008 Addams Family 1k
