I Promise Nothing!

I wonder how much it would cost to buy a nice copy of every pinball machine ever made. Any idea?? $10 million?

Buy a Kingpin and King Kong and ship them to HEP. That'll get you started.

I've been thinking more about how my friends and family members would benefit. Definitely, have a PAPA size collection based here as well to run midwest annual tournaments. Plus everyone that's in my league or has been in my league would get to pick out any NIB game from any manufacturer.

Nah....$1 Million wouldn't even change my life really. It would pay of debts and kids college and make a tiny bit of headway toward retirement, but that's it. Couldn't even quit my job with that. People don't even get off their couch to win 1 million.

Now 1.5 billion gets some tickets sold!

How would winning that much money affect my pinball hobby?

I would probably never play another pinball game again for the rest of my life. I imagine my hobbies would drastically change and be tremendously outragous to participate in. At least that's what I hope.

4 8 19 27 34 and Powerball is 10.

... oh, and the jackpot is $1,589,640,000

I WON!

Ughhh... Oh well, guess I'll keep flipping!

Only 4 dollar

I would give everyone on Pinside $10,000 but they have to use it to buy pinball machines......now everyone pray that I win!!

... how much?

My Father-In-Law just called to say that the news is reporting that a single winning number was sold in California.

Wow! That person must be going crazy!

Marcus

Now he'll finally be able to afford California's housing prices!

It's in Chino Hills, CA... looks like there's a lot of $$ there already.

it's Nate from coast 2 coast pinball. Everyone lynch him! *j/k*

Well it wasn't me,I went to the deli and spent the $2.00 on a coffee instead. At least I got something for my money.

For my $4 I got to play last Sat (won $4) and got to play again for last night (won another $4), so I think I came out pretty sweet. I got a week of fun shit talking and dreaming what it would be like and did not pay $2 for .50 coffee when I could make it at home for .25

I did win our local monthly pinball tourney last night so that was sweet! Probably just as good at 1.5 billion

That's my view on going to Vegas. I have $xx to blow... how long can I make it last. That's the fun/skill (if any).

No way I'm going to retire on Vegas winnings at a craps table.... but....ooooooohhhh it's FUN!
There's NOTHING like the sound of a craps table!

faz

When I went to Vegas this last year, my thinking was I've got $20 to blow in an arcade where sometimes the games give me back money, and sometimes the games go really really quickly.

My only regret was not finding the Ghostbusters game to blow money on that.

If I won that much money, I'd build a 75 story skyscraper that's as large as a city block. I'd live on a couple floors. Have a couple floors filled with a hotel for people to stay at (friends and family stay free). The rest of the floors would be themed for every hobby I've ever had the slightest interest in. And it would all be open to the public.

A huge arcade, spa, restaurant, theater, pool, garage, gym, ect. The building would become a social magnet for the city.

I wouldn't care if it was profitable

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I don't know what you do for a living but it is hard for me to go home in the middle of work to make a cup of coffee.

dont take it so serious. Just hainving some fun.

If I want coffe in the middle of the day, I make a pot in the morning and put it in my truty thermos. Still piping hot in the afternoon.

I make my coffee in the middle of my work night.

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Umm....you don't actually get 1.5 billion...and you could NEVER do what you propose with what you would end up with. A 75 story skyscraper as large as a city block would cost billions just to build and 10's of millions to maintain. You'd be flat broke well before you ever moved in.

Most people who win lotto end up bankrupt.

Are you saying I shouldn't build a huge mansion in Malibu filled with sports cars, exotic animals, and call girls?

Exactly. Keep your current house. Remodel the bathrooms and kitchen and put a nice new metal roof on. Then fill that house with call girls.

why call girls? Just have a staff of half naked girls at all times willing to do whatever. Give them french maid outfits and you can get the house clean in the process. On site boarding as well. 24/7 access requirement.

Id buy the williams rights and let everybody make whatever the hell they wanted.

The problem with this is, that the public pretty much sucks. After a day of people crapping (possibly literally) all over your stuff, stealing whatever they could fit in their pockets or bags, and breakage, you'd want to shut the place down. And that's not even counting the people who would kick the legs out from a machine to have it fall on one of their kids so they could sue you for every penny you had in the building.

I was going to say stick to the family/floors in the building, but you pretty much run the same risk there, depending on your family/friends.

I'd be hard pressed not to buy/move to a small island in the middle of nowhere and occasionally sending a jet out for games from your guys and for trusted friends to visit.

I'd live.

Winning the lottery is silly logic, the chance of it happening is way out there.....so I'm using Field of Derams logic. If you build it they will come.

Every floor/ designated space in my fictitious building would be set up as an individual business, if their profitable or not that would be depend on how much I enjoyed the space. A large arcade won't be cash positive, but I'd keep it around for my enjoyment. Nothing would be free, but nothing would be exclusive except for private areas.

Hotel floors would run just like any other hotel, the other attractions in the building would be the main draw for guests. Water park, spa, gym, maker spaces, theaters, shopping areas, ect.

I couldn't imagine living so lavishly, nor do I want to. I would put about $10 mil in the bank so I could have a nice interest check. The rest I would make a foundation and my full time job would be giving away the annual interest on $440 mil. Specifically to small town scholarships, and other projects related to fire, police, and families (parks etc). Another example might be pinball machines in a hospital for sick kids.

Then when I am dead, my kids can draw a salary doing the same job......legacy lives on.

Playboy Mansion has been put up for sale at $200M
New owner must allow Hefner to remain in occupancy until he dies.
No playmates, few pinballs included.
Property tax......not sure... probably little more than $2M every year.

Who the hell would want to buy a house with an crusty old man in it.

I'd buy a NIB Haunted House.