Springfield, MA
Any ideas? And how about the Williams Fun-Fest?
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Don't forget to adjust for inflation... the machines were not as cheap as they might seem once you look at what a dollar was worth back when they were originally sold.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
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$400-$700 non-adjusted for inflation, I know Williams Klondike specifically was $440 I believe, but the 4-player machines were more expensive than the 1 & 2 player machines
Quoted from Otaku:$400-$700 non-adjusted for inflation, I know Williams Klondike specifically was $440 I believe, but the 4-player machines were more expensive than the 1 & 2 player machines
Klondike was not US $400.00 NIB, it was higher. Many old threads here. I posted the exact price for a NIB Williams Gold Rush a few years ago. Search for it.
Somewhere MrBally has a receipt for a Bally Galahad he purchased new. It was somewhere between $200 and $300 I believe.
Quoted from o-din:Somewhere MrBally has a receipt for a Bally Galahad he purchased new. It was somewhere between $200 and $300 I believe.
That was a used machine, two years old; $275.00. Zip-a-doo was going for 375 used, just a bit newer. Williams Gold Rush was, IIRC, about $700.00 new, plus the old distributor "factory freight" charge and tax.
This has been covered before. Obviously it depends on the era. Mid-seventies wedgeheads were somewhere in the $795-$895 range I believe.
Quoted from gamera9:In 1982 I bought a1977 Williams Big Deal froman at ace and they still had a receipt from where they bought it New for 450.00
That had to be a closeout as the Solid State pins were coming out and ops no longer wanted a Bally or Williams EM. Considering that a Williams 4 player EM went for about $700.00 five or six years earlier.
Quoted from MrBally:That had to be a closeout as the Solid State pins were coming out and ops no longer wanted a Bally or Williams EM. Considering that a Williams 4 player EM went for about $700.00 five or six years earlier.
Which equates to approx $3K today.
Which begs the question: What price would a NIB (insert EM year and game name here) command today?
Hoo doggies!
Quoted from Tuna_Delight:What price would a NIB (insert EM year and game name here) command today?
This is close...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-nib-getaway-allied-leisure-1977
More accurately (actually EM) would be his NIB Interflip "Dragon" he had for sale also.
Quoted from MrBally:as there was no such thing as a collector price at that time.
That being said, I've always found it pretty interesting how today titles in this hobby pretty much rely entirely (expensively) on collector pricing. Even in the end a classic car is still at the least a car, a ride to work, etc., the only worth inside of these old machines is for parts use inside other machines, so I guess there is some kind of other reason for price baselines, but above that like $200-$400 mark for parts it is pretty much what we make it, based on desirability (condition of such as well) + rarity. (and sometime cliches)
For most of the desirable titles it seems we definitely surpassed the factory price for them (sometimes by multiples), even back when they were "perfect" rather than just in very very nice condition. Of course it makes total sense and all that (just like classic cars), but it's kind of funny to think how easy and cheap it would be to get some of the rarities of today back then.
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