First real love, often. I liked pinball since I was a child, locally I played Joker Poker and OXO at a pool hall. Then the laundromat got a Gorgar and an 8 ball Deluxe... played the shit out of those too. Gorgar taught me rulesets at 12 years old. Firepower at the bowling alley... I took a serious shine to pins at that point. 7-11 got a Sorcerer. OMG! I get this! My high scores are all over these machines. Then came the video game boom. I largely ignored pinball for like 7 years. One day at my local mini golf facility, I spied an Earthshaker right next to a Whirlwind. Dropped my quarters into WW and I was forever back. I own Whirlwind now, and it's a keeper. I credit it for re-kindling my love for the marriage of electronics, physics and engineering that is pinball.

Edit: I should copy this into my bio, I think I finally just wrote it

A true keeper is a pin you may ignore for a few days or weeks, but come back to eventually.
In my current lineup those are Spectrum and WPT.
Got my spectrum for 2 years now, still love it. It has sentimental value as this was my first pin - even if I started playing pinball 40 years ago!
Got my WPT for a year - still lovin' its deep ruleset and never could approach the final mode (Keefer's invitational).

I have space for 7 pins, and a wishlist with 30+ pins. No wonder the others have to rotate.

This is precisely me. Space for exactly 7, wishlist of over 30.

For me anything I would sell off if I found a nicer example, or a better story to go along with the find.

Yes. This.
Terry.

Being as how I only have 2 in the collection, probably will hang onto my Twister for a very long time. Especially after all the restoration and cleaning I'm currently in the process of doing and making it just how I want it.

No such thing. I would sell any of my games for the right amount of money. Most others would too. Odd thing about this for me... The ones I got for free... just doesn't seem right to sell them.

I haven't been on the pinball scene for too long but I've had a total of 20 machines. 7 currently. The keepers are bk2k and haunted house. I'll probably sell haunted house one day but I love bk2k so much that I bought the original bk to keep it company, also won't be selling my bk.

What is this "sell" you speak of?