Slap a $65,000 price tag on it and wait for the offers to roll in...

Well, certainly more than $1000 but I don’t think you’re paying off the house or anything.

Do I have to say it? Its only worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. To get top dollar, you could put it at auction and hope that 2 or more folks are dying to have it. Honestly, I think all the resto parts and overall condition are going to carry more weight to a buyer than the fact it is a prototype. Personally, if I was looking to buy this game I think it worth about $1700 tops...but the inside better be as good as the outside to make that figure.

Set up a poll with say $2000 increments and see where the opinions on price sit.
-Mike

Every proto has to be evaluated case by case. Desirable games, or Porto’s with major desirable differences over production models, and if both, this drives additional value over the standard run game. Unfortunately HMM, or any 6803 game is not very desirable. Generally something like this would make a game a little easier to sell, but not drive value.

Generally speaking WPC games that are proto are most desirable. Or games like an EM Evel Knievel would be another with significant value differences. But not HMM.

2500 give or take.

4500 top for the collector that has to have it

Well the Toronto market is crazy to begin with. It’s hard to find ANYTHING for under $1000; even EM projects. $2500USD is well over $3k cdn, and I’d be shocked if it went for less locally.

It’s not a $10 000 The Getaway. But it’s worth more then the average 6803 game.

Most don't care about if a machine is a prototype or not in their collection, very few do. Few in this hobby really care about something being rare or not either.

Oh C' Mon there are like 10 dudes that care about this stuff!

I would use it as trade bait(list for $1) and see what you can get for it. Like people said-value is in the eye of beholder

I think a very nice one would probably bring close to 2K... So, use that as a starting point. I've been casually looking for this title for a few years and followed your thread. It's cool that you got the drop working but, in order to get top dollar for this game, you will need to find the player who loves the game (not this player) and will probably have to ship it. I'd be willing to suggest that someone with a decent DMD game would probably trade you for it but obviously, you have to be super patient with a trade. A 2-3K trade could be possible to the right person that is tired of their DMD game.

On a somewhat related note, Dirty Harry sample machines with the drop do command a premium, over a standard nice DH. There is however, a more specific market for HMM so it could take a lot more time to find the right buyer.

well since pinside doesn't have a bid feature, why not (dare I say) use Ebay? Set a reserve that you are comfortable and see what happens? GL

You forgot not being able to properly answer questions about the machine too!