Guest Room - 1
Living room - 4
Kitchen - 2
Gameroom - 16
Garage - 1

Way too many!!!

4 projects in the garage
3 pins upstairs
32 downstairs in the basement.
1 pin at the GF's spot (it's serious now)

My life rules.

Damn. Caucasian2Step, how much sq ft you have in your basement?

Got my first in September now have 4. Could fit one more in the room they're in but it would be tight and I like a little room for friends to hang out.. If I found what I wanted I would most likely squeeze it in though. Or expand to other rooms.

Bought an arcade a little over a year ago. Now, I have 9 arcades and 5 pins. This covers two of the three stalls in our garage. I'm now forced to park outside. Love it.

When we bought the house we live in 11 years ago I had about 20 games (Pins & Vids) and I had the contractor wire the basement for me to accommodate them. There are 8 wall switces when you go down that turn on the 8 zones in the 3 rooms. One room holds exactly 12 Pins and that is what I have in there. The one wall can be made to have 6 or 7 pins on it and still make the room look full so the number will fluctuate. The other main gameroom has mostly video games in it (like 12 right now). It also has a 14' Big Ball Bowler and two EM pins. I can actually get 2 more pins in that room if I need or have them. I usually use the open space for pin restorations. The 3rd room has the 33/45 RPM Jukebox and 4 multigame vids in it. I have storage for 3-4 pins or vids and there are two pins there now.

Space is usually less of a problem than money to buy them.

Also, there are no coin-op devices allowed above the basement. The only exception is my wife's gumball machine. She said I could put a bubbler Jukebox in but that's just too expensive!

I need to plan another visit!

Congrats on the lady friend. That is a new addition to the line up, correct?

We'll try not to get kicked out of any bars this time

I'll help you in your decision making. There is only one solution, as you mentioned, expand to other rooms. Let your addict grow. It is a part of who you are. LOL

Doesn't everyone do the same thing?

1. Discover pinball.
2. Buy everything and anything to fill the space they have.
3. Discover "new" space, add more, wife really starts to hate the word "pinball".
4. Start to trade up to what each of you perceives that to be (rank/rarity/value).
5. Get to where you got everything you want (not just #2 of this list, saying you're done if I can now only get machine X - really done).
6. Stagnate, get bored, start imagining what you could buy (sports car) if you sold half of them.
7. Scale down, telling everything you are more content this way.
8. Sell the rest and take up stamp collecting. Realize no matter what, porn is always your first and foremost hobby.

I have room for 6 pins. Beyond that, it starts scaring off the women. Currently, I have 8 pins so those obviously weren't the right women for me.

My house is filling up fast.. Plus my over flow is going to my parents basement.. It's kind of nice to play my pinballs that are at my parents home several times a year.. Mainly holiday times..

I'm filled to capacity ... Which means I have room for at least 5 more.

I'm at capacity with 9 in the house. Since I was out of room, I put 7 in a local pizza restaurant rather than sell them. Got a couple in the garage too.

One thing I've figured out is my wife doesn't care how many are in the garage as long as she can park her car inside. So the garage doesn't count towards the capacity limit.

I'd say it's about 1200 sq feet. There is a bathroom and a washer and a dryer down there. But the laundry room has 3 pins in it. Just about every game is working as it should, other than the projects in the garage.

This is a funny thread. When I built this house 11 years ago I put in a walkout basement with lots of room for my pinballs and other junk, it's 32x60. I wanted 9' tall walls so I had plenty of height. I figured there was no way I would ever fill it. Well long story short, it's full. Only had like 10 games when I built it. It's amazing how if we have room, we will fill it. Todd

12 where a dining room should be, 2 plus a multicade in the guest room, and 2 at friends' houses. Oh, and I live in a 3rd floor apartment. Granted, I have a lot of space, but still...

Hope there's an elevator.....

Having only 5 machines makes me feel like a deadbeat in this discussion! I would never move out my pool table and the wife tells me the living room is off limits.....sigh.

wow so envious... I tapped out at 6. 4 fits goor, 5 is tight... and 6 raised my wifes eyebrow

This is true: I'm thinking of putting one in the guest bathroom.

Just added one, so I just sold one. I really need to find more space.

I made a deal with my wife that I would only buy as many pins as I could fit in one particular room of our basement. Of course, a couple have now spilled out into the adjacent room.

20140123_132303.jpg my Dads house....

20140506_111622-460.jpg and my house.. even more at our restaurant! Its a bit much

I built my game room this winter so i could move what i had to larger space...have 7 (bought 2 last week) and unfortunately with the 2 new ones, a kitchen table

In the living room: 6 pins setup, 1 pin folded up, and 3 arcade machines.
In dining room: 4 arcade machines waiting on repairs.
Outside covered porch: 12 arcade machines awaiting repairs.
Spare bedroom: 7 fully working arcade machines.
Garage: 2 pins folded up.
Garage next door: Super Chexx bubble hockey and 2 arcade machines.

Yeah machines all over the place lol.

Sent the couch to the curb today, for large item pick up. Now there is room for 2 more pins. I think the matching chair was really nervous.

Beds take up a lot of room. All one needs is a sleeping bag and a pin with nothing stored under it.

It's like camping... under the LED filled canopy, that are pointing the other way.

I just go to the bathroom outside now. Sucks in the winter. Damn pinball machines.

oh, it is serious??? but how serious, what is the pin over there??? oh tell me DL

Too full, but not enough.

I was reading page three of this thread and I could not stop laughing. You people are the best. You all should be writing for comedy shows. I wish I could print all this stuff and make a "Best of Pinside" book. I want to read page one and two but my ribs hurt too much now.

At one point a few years back my wife counted 89 pins set up ( not all working ) in the house . I see no reason to argue . Once you have outbuildings things get less fun since access to the remotely stored pins to change batteries or play time goes to zero . Then they become something you move to get at other objects . Worse idea loan out games to a friend . Loaned three games to a long time operator friend ( 2 of 3 worked ) . Took me years to retrieve , only happened really because he was dying and by then all three broken . Sorry to be a buzzkill but loaning games doesnt always work out . Shane

Four in my too-small gameroom. One in my unfinished garage, with room for two more though it's not an ideal environment. Time to knock down a wall or kick the family out...

2 in the bar, 3 in the ping pong area ( no ping pong anymore) 2 in the shop. Could fit more but happy wife, happy life......

I told her she could pick any single table for her living room.

She picked Funhouse. What can I say… she has great taste in pinball games.

I'm a lucky guy!

Do you mean table table or pin table?

Moved some things around and BAM newly acquired Hook project fits in the garage.
No problem just yet that I see unless I happen to find a couple of more games.

3 games rooms:
13 in the first.
9 in the second.
4 in the third.

With a little upgrade, the garage could hold about 8-10 games. Could squeeze maybe 1 more into the basement.

(Sane) capacity would be about 15-17 then. The house could physically hold about 60 machines (all plugged in and running, with room to play them).

i need to install your avatar in my SWE1 to replace the broken one it came with.

full of pins...
more on way...
must sell some. oy vey

I have room for 10 comfortably in the house as I'm not willing to have any upstairs or in my garage.
I currently have 7 and 2 more when they get built.

You know I'm down for 2 of them!!!

i'll save South Park and Karate Champ for ya

Anyone have an Avatar LE they'd want to sell to make room?

"Half Point"

ok, house is bursting at seems now.
going to get south park purdied-up and sold.

Hmmm...Less than a month 3 more appeared. I just might have a problem.