However I can best maximize the available space.

By bra size

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The ones i can play because they are working. As to my list of order to be fixed buy work required after needed that parts are on hand. The way they came home.

Chronological order. When I see people's pins out of chronological order it makes me sad.

I only have seven scattered around the house (have never had more than about a dozen at a time) but they are just randomly placed. I suppose I like them as they'd be in arcade and not in a museum, even if I still had every one I've ever owned. But then I'd need a house with two or three times the space!

They are forever moving around in a state of flux and rearrangement.
Once I think I have it figured out I move stuff around again.

Alpha.

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Mine are separated by manufacturer and then in chronological order. With 50+ pins, this does make for a fair bit of work whenever something new comes in the door. But worth it.

Working and not working

In a row

By manufacturer. DE, Stern, Williams, Bally and AP.

If they are chronological aren't they also set up by era? Unless you are persnickety about '77-'79
Mine are set up autobiographicaly.
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In a row but separated/spaced by how loud they are and how popular they are. Basically keep the loud and good ones spaced apart.

Here's my dilemma. I built a closet to cover some utilities in my expanded pinball room. I won't be able to easily get the glass off the machine that's across from the closet. The glass on my Jolly Ride doesn't slid out, it's on a hinge system, so it goes up. The problem is, even though putting the Jolly Ride in that spot is a no brainer, I can't figure out an order where it goes in that spot. I don't care which order they're in, but they need to be in some kind of order!!!

No order ;(

I have mine split between 3 different rooms. Broken in one room, the games my wife likes in another room, and everything else in the third. This comes very close to splitting them up chronologically because my wife prefers newer games.

Same for me.
In one row 4 wpc and a sega just fit.

Other row has some more space so has the wider backboxes (bally em, zaccaria)

Random order is also an order.

Any order to maximize nr of pins in my garage. Games without toppers below the garage door "roof rails", the rest to fit between door and so on.

I have no order. I like it that way.

I like similar back boxes next to each other. With my current collection that happens to group them by manufacturer and close to chronological order as well.
I’ve had them in random spots and it just doesn’t look as good.

Heck there are still tons of them, especially anything by Mad Dog!

I swear I didn't intentionally make it come out that way (but maybe subconsciously I did). But seriously, I take a lot of flak for it, so my next machine has got to be something with less female anatomy. Of course an Elvira is what I would love to have, but that just ramps up the theme even more. I really like Firepower though and I hope to get one someday. That should get me off the hook, not a female in sight on that one!

You're a sick man!

Inconceivable!

I mean...now you're just bragging.

Seriously though, nice collection.

Generally where ever there's space is my order, but when it's not too much hassle I've made small sections of themes where I can. Five (soon to be six) Jersey Jacks in a row. Three American Pinballs in a row. A little heavy metal section with Maiden, Metallica, ACNC, BK:SOR (now separated). A little mid-'60s pop culture section with Beatles, BM66, Gilligan, and Munsters (now separated). I did want to put my Orbitor 1 next to my Cosmic Carnival and bring in a few other less-loved oddballs on the cheap like Bugs Bunny, Thunderbirds, Hyperball, Granny & the Gators, whatever, and call that section The Island of Misfit Toys, but then realized that was a stupid idea.

'80 and '81.
Then the rest wherever they fit.

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General disorder.

Mine are arranged using the Dewey decimal system.

Furthest left is the oldest (‘68) middle (‘78) then newest (‘79)

Is temperature a issue with pins ? I can’t lug these things up/down our 180 staircase anymore expecially the JJPs.My help is a 11 n 13 yr old and although they try when we brought GnR in house they couldn’t lift it so it ended up on top of me in the doorway .I was trapped like a turtle on its back w a 300+ lb pin on it .I tried to make a deal to take over my wife’s office on main level but that turned into “your buying more ?” So I played dumb n said “What ? ...No I mean ....I don’t think so .”So now I’m looking at our garage which is a 3 car that just houses her big ass nice SUV(I drive a Focus so I can buy more of these ).The 3rd bay is perfect for maybe 10-12 but I’m just worried about the elements in the Midwest .I can wall it off n put HVAC unit in it but then am I officially Fing nuts at that point ? Has anyone here been in this situation before and figured it out please lmk I need help !

Autobiographical

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Stern, JJP, B/W with DP thrown in..

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I have no idea about the climate where you live but here in Sweden we have snow in the winter and hot in summers. I walled off our 2 car garage and made it into a pin room and a smaller storage room instead. No hvac for me (only a radiator for heating in pin room) but as our basement is dug into the ground (and not standing on top of it) it keeps a rather stable temperature all year round.

I did install a humidity meter in the room and so far it have varied between ~25-35% so the games should be ok. I'm much more concerned over humidity changes than temperature as humidity swings seem to be the cause for both rust and playfield planking/cracking.

Thanks, just found out today that I can actually raise the Jolly Ride glass all the up in the new pinball area. Pleasant surprise! Make even more sense to it down at the end.

All my Bally/Williams games are grouped together... with my one Stern on the end.

From left to right. Then along that wall to this corner and over to this door. Then from here to there with some right in the center.

That's how I arranged them from my first game purchase up until now.

I usually have them arranged with the ones I don't plan on selling farthest away from my basement walkout door. JJP POTC is tucked back in the corner, farthest away from the door, with RBION right next to it. If it isn't a long term keeper, I keep it closer to the door or the end of the row so it's easy to move out.

I have a half dozen light cans in the ceiling. If I put a modern game under one of the lights, the light will reflect directly in my eyes because of the steep slope of the playfield glass. Older SS and EM games the playfield glass is flat and no reflection at all. So basically I have no real order aside from the rule Early SS and EM only under the lights.

Kind of geeky but I've wanted to arrange my WPC by model number sometime and see if anyone would take notice:

BSD - 50001
BoP - 50002
WTB FH cause that's 50003
HSII - 50004
FT - 50005
There was no 6?
RG - 50007
T2 - 50013
TZ - 50020

How are my Pin's organized?
Poorly.

One of the few perks of not having enough money to own more than a few pins is not really having to worry about the order

Chronologically

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Nicely done.