Bump for a very fun game.

I'm addicted to the Pinball Arcade version. Can't wait to someday try the real thing!

I don't normally jump in and price police but wow...this is a cool game and I know they didn't make a lot of them but even as a HUO game that's quite a price. If you can get that price, more power to you.

Looks like a pretty nice example. Really a shame your friend did not keep it away from the window. The front appears to be faded pretty bad. How is the right side of the cabinet facing the window?

Good looking example. I wouldn't let my SC go for $8,500...too much fun at pin gatherings to watch someone get a token for the first time.

GLWS

same here.... its awesome

Having sold my Huo safe cracker around the same price point over a year ago I would say he's in the ball park. I do miss the game.
Glwts..

Here's a question for present/past owners:

If you're having people over and someone wins a token, do you let them keep it? Seeing as how they aren't being made anymore and can fetch a decent size fee on eBay, how comfortable are you with giving them up? Or, do you just put fifty cent pieces in the tubes (I watched a YouTube video that shows they do in fact work)?

I bought 30mm Japanese Pachislo tokens and put them in mine. Similar to these:

ebay.com link: 250 NEW Large 30mm Tokens For Pachislo Skill Stop Japanese Slot Machine Coins

The originals are in the coinbox in bags. You may need to adjust the red screw on the magic token coin mech to accept these which are more the international token size than domestic.

I am seriously interested and I do have a sincere question. I don't know, but I've been told that a Safe Cracker came stock with a full set of tokens and that figure is 300. If that game is truly HUO, I find it hard to believe that in a home setting, 225 tokens have been dispensed and not returned to the game. Do the kids in the house have a stack of tokens in there room? Did one of the kids have a pinball wizard friends that kept all the magic tokens? How do you win a token in that game and have enough will power not to put it back in the game and play the Assault The Vault mode? I just can't do it. It's way too much fun.

If I am right on the number of tokens that came stock in a game, can you provide any info on what happened to the rest of them?

Joe
Who has been looking for a Safe Cracker for a long time
(joemagiera at ameritech dot net)
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Great game. Would be ranked 1-3 all time if it were full size. IMO

That's a lot of cab fade in the front for a home use copy. Whether it is HUO or not isn't the entire condition story. I've been looking for an SC for a long time too.

Good luck getting the token back from a kid if a kid wins it.

My view is that the tokens are there to be won, if someone wins it I tell them about the Assualt the Vault mode (which is an awesome tournament play mode by the way) and if they choose to play it great if not they keep the token. I can always buy more if I really have to...

I love Safe Cracker Pinball Arcade but in person the "Pinball mini" experience leaves me somewhat underwhelmed. If SC were ever remade full scale I might even sell my prized TZ for it..I won't hold my breath. Beautiful example all the same. GLWS!

Actually, a lot of HUO games have bad cab fade. Many people are or were oblivious to the sun causing that kind of damage and would just place the game right next to a window.

Wish i could play one in real life its great on pinball arcade.

GLWS bump

I believe it, but if you're dropping $8500 on a SafeCracker you probably want it to be CQ or close to it, so new decals are in order IMHO to fetch the price he's asking.

I use the original tokens, but I have a large sticker along the length of the lockdown bar that says "DO NOT KEEP TOKENS" and in smaller text under it "insert tokens into left slot for special game!"

I 100% agree. My Slugfest has dispensed hundreds of baseball cards to neighborhood kids for a couple of years now. With these kids growing into teenagers, my hope is that the neighbors get the lawn job and not me over the next few years!

If I had a Safe Cracker, I would have it dispense 50 cent pieces.

While I don't like where the price has gone on this game, I have owned it in the past and did enjoy it. If I recall correctly, I bought it in 2007. I paid $4k for it and a tales from the crypt. At that time I figured I was overpaying but it was a game that I thought I'd like and it was very close to me.

I guess I should have kept that one

Dave

I agree. I actually didn't realize this game had decals ran for it, I searched and found several runs from a couple people . . . it seems there is a big quality difference between the runs.

One day super quick sale. Safe Crackers are moving fast these days.

I picked up a very nice example (with wings!) last week. My only regret was not picking it up sooner.

Congrats to the seller. Makes the one that Mike recently sold seem like the deal of a life time - https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-safe-cracker-in-michigan. Mine is very nice but I thought about grabbing Mike's just to upgrade my machine.

Yeah, whoever got Mike's game got a heck of a deal.

While I encourage people to play "Assault the Vault", I always let people keep the tokens if they want to. The only rime I didn't was when my son's friend won one of the rare silver ones. Instead, I swapped it out with a gold one.

My safe cracker came with a box wings and a box of coins. The coins came in bags not pre loaded in the silo..there was like a certain number of bags with like 15 in each bag or something. All the bags were gold but one which was a bag of silver ones. So if u didn't preload your silo u can easily lost them.

Like everything in life, timing is key. No regrets from me.

Congrats on the sale. Looks like a nice example.

I thought that was a pretty amazing price. That was a tough time of year to sell a game.

Well done OP,

Great game, Looks like these SC are going up in price.

If ur safe cracker doesn't have this mod it's a must

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Support rails for the weight is a must too. Also, insulate the metal wire in the back box.

Have not seen this game, but have bought a couple games from Matt and wanted to say that he is good to deal with.