I’m partial to newer games. Oldest game I’ve owned was Bride of Pinbot 1991.

I really prefer the newer pins like from the last dozen years but do own AFM remake and it’s just about perfect. I think it strikes the balance between great layout and great rules. Plus the remake has a larger color display and updated lights.

To me lights are very important and I think older pins don’t stand out much as the new breed. Like TNA, Woz, etc.

Think the newer pins rely more on deeper rules than outstanding toys / layout.

Personally I’d prefer DI to TZ but I can see how other people would not. But the outstanding display and sound and color lights and rules top TZ however TZ was a marvel in it’s time.

Not sure about anything older than the 90s never really cared for the older but possible that I’ve not given enough play time.

You’re calling me a newbie?

Whenever I can I’ll play a few older pins like EBD thinking what am I missing? I’ve never played an older game and felt the rush I’m getting from any of my newer pins.

I'm going to have to give some older games some more attention although I do like modern reliability and like pins that have not been degraded by time and age, perhaps someone will remake some of the classic SS games Fathom, Flash, Centaur etc..

It all depends on how you look at it tho.

I bought a Tron pro and spent 1500 in mods and sold it 7 years later for $2000 more than I paid.

I bought STLE and sold it for same as I paid (including mods) after 4 years.

those 2 games example had owned 11 years cumulative and made $500 while playing more than a thousand games.

Now it's true the purchase price is not in line with a $1200 old pin but the cost of ownership was nil.

true that I lost money on a few pins like XMLE but overall not really lost much, I own my Potc going on 14 years now and can sell it for maybe 700 less than I have spent on it would be less than $1 a week of ownership. (I actually over paid when I bought that because I didn't know about direct purchases so I bought it retail form a pin shop and paid sales tax and delivery so it was 5200 back in 2006 had I bought it direct I'd probably be even money).

I've been collecting 16 years now and probably spent over 100 grand on pins but factoring in bought and sold (gain and loss) the cost was probably less than $500 a year.