The prices will continue to rise until they reach the cost of something more entertaining and valuable, like.... Hmmm.... well... Now, you see, nothing comes to mind so, no, we have not reached the peak... yet.

I'm wondering when the cost of developing time travel will be worth the payoff of going back and buying all those B/W machines and titles before the bubble started growing. There is some serious money to be made here. Your first truckload of sub $1000 TZ's and IJ could send your whole fam-damnly to Harvard or Yale... oh to have had the foresight to invest in warehouse space and B/W pins back in the late 90's and early 2000's...

Sorry Levi, I was being sarcastic... nobody is actually thinking that pinball would be a better finacial growth instrument than wall street... I got my cheap pins in the early 90's to play them, not resell them for profit.

I royally thank you for making that clear lol

I love my FG pinball machine, it says some of the most politically wrong things a pinball machine can... but thats because they used FG show callouts like you said... I also have a machine with a huge pile of shit on the playfield... by design, and it says some of the worst things as well (South Park by the way for those whole don't know the Gary Stern v.s. Joe B. Argument story about it) But talking about that Monkey on Oktoberfest, I think eventually I am going to want the machine to go with all my other monkeys... I got a monkey in three of my machines already... Evil Monkey, 4 assed Monkey, and the Bell ringer monkeys et al in my Gottlieb Central Park...

I built a video cabinet to save space and money... but it is not my goto when I play casually. You truly have to have a real itch to play a title virtually, otherwise I punch up something on my 6 real machines (soon to be 7). Is virtual any good?, I would argue, with accelerometers for nudging and influencing ball travel, it is way better than playing Pinball Arcade, or using simple nudge inputs from a keyboard or xbox-type controller. I get lost in it and can almost forget I am playing virtual, but my cabinet is set up with a dropped in pf display, which helps create the illusion better since it allows for side blades which really sells it. I have it decked out in Pingraphix power panelz and power bladez and AFM cabinet art. For a millisecond, you would swear I owned an AFM.

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