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Do you have a budget? If you want something clean and don't want to have to do repairs your best bet is a brand new game or something relatively recent. Failing that look for something that's been restored. All pinball will required minor work but hopefully with a new game it'll be simple and you can call support for help. Your budget will decide what you can get though
Quoted from LiNks:I have a decent budget, I am the type that will fall for something I love regardless of the cost! I am sure changing bulbs occasionally, maybe some rubbers... just hoping not to have to get involved with wiring, or boards, leaking batteries ect.
I am a bit of a stickler for a clean machine, a HUO will probably be a must. I am not out to get the Ferrari of pinballs first time around, but something to maybe play with for a bigger decision in the future.
Find what games you like then, maybe try and check out the newer sterns like kiss, star trek, metallica, the walking dead if those appeal to you.
Quoted from GorillaBiscuits:My RBION was my TZ lite heh. Really loving it and many less things to break! Also I can't fit a wide body through my door
Although I did have to replace the scoop and cliffy on it... but it was a manageable repair I could actually do, so that ruled! It's enormously fulfilling to learn about maintaining these things.
One last thing OP, get your butt over to modern pinball NYC and play some machines! I joined the league there and aside from learning a lot of skills from the veterans there, you will get to play an ENORMOUS amount of machines and figure out what you like.
God I wish I'd held on to my RBION 
Quoted from Taxman:Um, the wide-body is still thinner than the head. So if the head fits . . .
I think I am going to hear a very strange moving situation. (oh, and in a worst case, the heads come off)
Maybe head comes off and goes through side ways, body just fits through. Only way I can see a regular fitting and wide not
Quoted from GorillaBiscuits:Oh boy, let me tell you. EVERY single head has to come off to fit into my basement. The actual body has maybe a half inch on each side going down the stairs. Luckily this is my dream house and I am in love with all three of my games, so no moving for a LONG time. *knocks on wood*. And to the jerk that framed my stupid 25 inch doors when they built the house in the late 1800's before pinball was a thing, BITE ME
yo sucka you gotta big mouth!
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