TWD Pro owned 2 years. 3038 (I'm retired so lots of time to play!) no maintenance issues.

AC/DC Pro VE owned 3 months. 833 - quite a few little niggles with this: there's a spring on the playfield in front of the bell to divert the ball - it was fixed so wrong it was trapping the ball. I've so far had 4 loose connections on bulbs. Flasher lamps behind the thunder targets kept jumping out - needed a spot of super glue, one of the lamps has failed already. Line-in fuse blew (fortunately hasn't happened again). All small things with quick fixes. The playfield is dimpled but doesn't this happen to all playfileds? AC/DC is very bright with a high gloss finish so dimples are noticeable. No ghosting or real problems with the machine.

I can't see any problem buying a machine with 5 thousand plays or even 10 thousand. Provided it's held up I'd say it had passed the test of time.

I don't by any of the newer games but I could care less how many plays are on them in care how they play now.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/iron-man-turns-100#post-3875115

What a great route! Good for you.
Not surprised to see reliable IM holding its own.
Thanks for sharing!

NIB LOTRLE 2009 580 no software updates .
NIB SM 2007 3 updates 789 total
I keep logs or how many plays before I update .
NIB X-Men LE 2012 3 updates 699
NIB The Avengers LE 2012 2 updates 950
NIB STLE 2013 2 updates 690

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I Ebb and Flow in and out of pinball . No I have not been playing for the last two years. I have many hobbies . I also compete in the online video game Diablo 3 seasons and my YouTube channel I theory craft class builds for Diablo 3 take 100 of hours of testing . I train for marathons; and do lots of semi- professional vocal music , dance , theatre . I travel to "Grateful Dead" shows . Three this summer . I also am in the coin-op business and have been collecting pinball for 23 years . I have an Attack from Mars that I purchased new in 1996 that only has 365 plays on it . I have started playing pinball again in late September daily . I as usual now I want to buy a NIB machine LE . And the pricing is out of control.

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GOT Pro. Bought NIB and received it February 2016. Over 6k plays.

No wonder you are a really good player . Holy molly . I picked up on this from reading your knowledgeable post on pinside .

Atta boy! Any issues with your spike system at all?

Met pro led owned for 1 month and have 450 plays with no issues. (I have a roommate who likes to play alot too)

No sir. Just a batch of bad EOS switches when I rebuilt the flippers. Fixed with buy By a different type of EOS switch.

I have ghosting on 4-5 inserts and one playfield X insert is sunken just a bit. Put Mylar over it. No wear.

My center ramp left metal wall is getting close to breaking like others have noted, but I can get that welded/repaired.

That's it!

Haha. I don't know about really good player, but I do play a ton. Play a game enough and you'll get a decent score here and there.

Does software updates or anything else reset the # of plays counter?