I'd say a players condition routed unit is about the same price as one of those remakes is new give or take a few hundred.

Glad to see someone's not in it just for the money. That is an $8000 game on this website. People here know the quality and value of the original. It can have a few miles on it, but it was built to last. And plays and looks just like an original.

It is easy enough to check the sales history of this or any title. looks like the cheapest one recently was $7200. As much as those with remakes might like to think theirs is worth as much or more, just look at how much the rest of them sold for.

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/archive?s=1&radius_latitude=33.369909511085936&radius_longitude=-117.63673400878906&keywords=&ad_machine_key=869&ad_condition=0&machine_type=&ad_machine_manuf=&year_from=&year_to=&radius_distancekm=322&sort_by=ad_end_date&sort_order=DESC#results

Is that a real Medieval or is that a Sears Medieval?

It's funny as the op has not posted any pics and all he said is the playfield has some wear and it has some broken plastics and it was in a bowling alley and everybody here seems to know how much it's worth just by that.

Again he asked for reference about what these are selling for and the pinside archive shows low at $7200 but most going for eight grand or more.

Looks like a fine original machine. A playfield swap isn't the end of the world and you end up with a solid machine. Original is the only way I'd ever own one of these again.

The last run was in 1997.

Differences I noticed-

Lighting is not the same, sound is not the same, flippers are not the same, sequences like castle explosion are not the same, translite is not the same, probably a few more.

It isn't that hard to find a restorable original or have the original restored and that service runs about $1000 for a quality job.

Is that why so many who bought the remake replaced the speakers first thing? Hey I'm not here to pump or defend anything but the remake I played sounded like ass.

More like one uses the original code and another is emulated which makes for all kinds of subtle differences.

Which might appeal to somebody that does or doesn't exactly want the experience of playing a 1997 classic game as it was.

Anyway this thread has strayed as it is not about the remake and which is better.

No argument there. I played a brand new MM in 1997 100s of times and I know the differences.

Again this thread has strayed from the topic at hand.

My bad was referring the emulated code to the flippers. The flippers had a different feel, but the emulated code would be more responsible for slight differences in sound and lighting and other timed features, as those are what I noticed the most.

For somebody that is not that mechanically inclined and doesn't want to work on his own games and isn't that picky, the new version is a great option for those people.

For the purist that wants the game they played back in the late 90s, there really is only one option and the op of this thread has a very workable example.

lol.

I'm sure some will still pay $10k more. But worth is a fickle word.

And for those that want the best of the best, sometimes money is no object.

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