Pinwow, I usually agree with you on a lot of things and if shipping weren't a killer most of the time, I think we'd have done business by now (I think you had a champagne fire once I was soooo temped to pull the trigger, amongst a few other titles).

Despite what my profile says for time on here, I've been on here for over 5 years, with a few years of me on as a guest seeing if I should dive into this hobby. There are absolutely some fine operators that double as valuable pinsider members, but for every one of them, there's a recently created pinsider with less than 20 posts, selling a post 2006 Stern for way over market value and then never respond to anyone. Perhaps it's only a perception to some, but I think it's becoming a reality. This reeks of a cash grab from someone who thinks this is a place to make a quick buck while offering nothing to the community in return.

Now that I've said that, also allow me to take the same stance you see from Vid when he defends The Pin. HRC with the directors cut ROMs is a ridiculoisly fun game. Fine, call it a dog because you don't like the southerner callouts, or the pink cabinet you never see between 2 games. But that game is more stacked than Avatar by far. Sure Avatar Pro has a decent ruleset, but HRC has 4 slingshots (2 mid playfield), two ridiculously unique toys, one with a secondary display, 3 diverter mechanisms, drop targets, crossover ramp, a cool right orbit which gets easier by taking down one drop target, 2 wizard modes, a good ruleset, and even an interactive backglass. If Avatar Pro is a $4900 game (with a basic layout, 1 undiverted ramp, a plastic doll in a small shoebox, no drops, a textbook modern stern uninspired skill shot, and one stripped down mech toy with a motorized stand bank), then HRC is a $3500-$4k game... and we know that isn't the case. I know HRC isn't popular as it could be, but it's no Harley D or Striker X, IMO... and Avatar Pro would have to be gold plated to be a $5k game. And it's not, so it's simply a cash grab from a newb trying to further devolve this site into a flashier Craigslist with better pictures.