Hook
Data East, 1992
Last Action Hero
Data East, 1993
Lethal Weapon 3
Data East, 1992
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Williams, 1991hey I've never owned a pin before and i'm looking to buy my first. the only problem is i live in australia and am struggling to find anything even close to my budget. hoping to spend under $1500 can anybody point me in the right direction?
Are you looking for a DMD machine? Under $1500 makes for slim pickings in Australia.
Most of these Gottliebs from 1992 onwards may fit into that price bracket (or slightly above) depending on condition and title (see link):
http://ipdb.org/search.pl?mfgid=257&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced
You should also be able to pick up some Data east Titles for around the 1500-1800 range:
Hook
Lethal Weapon
Last Action Hero
Stretch your budget up to around $2000 and the options open up to Bally/Williams titles:
World Cup Soccer
Getaway
Fish Tales
Judge Dredd
Demolition Man
Black Rose
Thanks for everyone's help. Would love to get a DMD machine but have a strict budget of $1500 and am now realizing this is unlikely. Followed up on all your suggestions and links still not able to find one for under 1500 though.
Quoted from virgin_owner:Thanks for everyone's help. Would love to get a DMD machine but have a strict budget of $1500 and am now realizing this is unlikely. Followed up on all your suggestions and links still not able to find one for under 1500 though.
Cash is king. Go into a pinball dealer premises with your maximum budget of $1500 cash and stick to it.
A lot of the pinball retail/dealers bring in containers from Europe regularly and after buying the high end titles, they fill up the remaining spaces of those containers with cheaper titles such as the Gottliebs and Data Easts mentioned above (just about every pinball container to Australia in the last 10 years has had at least 1 Data East Lethal Weapon in it, if not more).
In a retail environment, these titles have a slower turnover rate (you see them listed as .99cent start auctions on ebay Australia regularly) and they take up space in their premises.
Go there in person with the list above and make an offer, showing that you are genuine and that way they avoid the time wasters on ebay.
Plus you can play the actual machine in person and test it out for yourself.
Worth a shot. Good luck.
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Raleigh, NC
