(Topic ID: 225981)

Cost of Building 90's Pins vs Buying

By wolfemaaan

5 years ago


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“Cost of Building 90's Pins vs Buying”

  • Buy a finished machine for $10K 9 votes
    29%
  • Build a $10K machine 7 votes
    23%
  • I’m fine with the sub $5K Pin I own 15 votes
    48%

(31 votes)

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#18 5 years ago
Quoted from ForceFlow:

The only time where it can make sense to build from scratch is if the game is so rare that it's pretty much unobtainable through usual means.

And at that point how would you even get the parts? Nobody would stock parts for 3 existing games, they would never sell.

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