I don't know. I think if Twilight Zone were released today it would still look more like a feature packed game. Don't get me wrong, I like Iron Maiden too, but it's not surprising that a game like Twilight Zone is pricing out similar to a JJP game. Then you can also take a look at the budget W/B games: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Fish Tales, The Shadow, Judge Dredd, etc. You can almost purchase two of them for the price of a Stern (Pro). They have doubled in price in the last six years, but they still don't seem overpriced. I think it's the NIB prices that are leading the market, everything else is just adjusting up with them. The only true value right now is Hardbody .

Just sold my decent Dracula for $3,000 two days ago. Perhaps you are correct though, there just might not be any "budget" DMDs at this point. Most prices have doubled in the last five to ten years. To me, those machines I listed are still the the best bang-for-your-buck entry point in DMDs. You can't any other top-25 games in the $3,000 range.

I still think my greater point stands, that it is the NIB market that is driving everything else up. When I was looking at NIB prices, it was pretty easy for me to pickup games like Fish Tales, Dracula, Jurassic Park, The Shadow, and Congo instead. At the time of purchase, I bought each of those games for less then half the cost of a NIB. Sometimes cheaper then that. I think those prices going up was pretty predictable. They were previously a great value, lagging behind the NIB market. Now I think they are becoming more fairly priced. It's also interesting that the remakes have kind of set a maximum cap on W/B games. Before remakes the top end was really getting crazy.