Where's the best place to search for and maybe buy a certain pinball game?

[falconfan5832]

anyone?

[Austin]

Pinside, the Mr. Pinball Classifieds, or Craigslist. In any order you please.

[cjameslv]

That or if you have a local pinball hall. Here is vegas there is a few places you play at and both sell machines too which is a bonus.

[Austin]

That or if you have a local pinball hall. Here is vegas there is a few places you play at and both sell machines too which is a bonus.

 

That's an option, although what you will find at a lot of these places is that the machines for sale are far more expensive than you will get anywhere else. Not exactly ideal.

[cjameslv]

 

That's an option, although what you will find at a lot of these places is that the machines for sale are far more expensive than you will get anywhere else. Not exactly ideal.

Well that's not true from my experience, its very ideal. I have bought a few machines from a local hangout here (ninja turtles, middle earth, tri zone) and have yet to even get close to breaking the $1000 mark cumulative. It's just a matter of patience and getting to know people. Then the deals will come to you. For example my last machine i got about 2 months ago, Middle Earth, i got by just happening to mention i was wondering if atari made pinball machines to a friend. He told me they made a few and it just happened that the owner had one in storage he didn't even want and was running low on storage space. Scored it for $300 with a full led swap too.

Edited January 30, 2016 by cjameslv

[Austin]

Well that's not true from my experience, its very ideal. I have bought a few machines from a local hangout here (ninja turtles, middle earth, tri zone) and have yet to even get close to breaking the $1000 mark cumulative. It's just a matter of patience and getting to know people. Then the deals will come to you. For example my last machine i got about 2 months ago, Middle Earth, i got by just happening to mention i was wondering if atari made pinball machines to a friend. He told me they made a few and it just happened that the owner had one in storage he didn't even want and was running low on storage space. Scored it for $300 with a full led swap too.

 

Generally if you want to buy a game from an operator, they don't sell them absurdly cheap. But I agree, getting to know people in the community, you are bound to have deals come your way. Goes the same with console video game collecting. I just misinterpreted your original post.