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I am pinned out!

By bladerunner

5 years ago


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    “I am pinned out!”

    • I am pinned out 40 votes
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    • Nothing has changed 25 votes
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    • I am buying more pins 44 votes
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    • I am very picky on new purchases 120 votes
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    #36 5 years ago

    I have lost the spark as well after 11 years in the hobby.
    I do not buy new games because they are out of my hobby budget.

    I have 4 projects in the cue.
    This made a switch click in my head.
    This is becoming like a job.
    I am thinning my herd.
    I will keep only 4 games once I am thinned. I will have only ONE project going at any time. ( 5 games total)

    I also plan on buying games restored by others. Then there is not much to do to get them in shape.
    At 4 games, I will be 1 in and 1 out.
    Whatever I am not playing as much as the others will be sold.

    #39 5 years ago
    Quoted from NoQuarters:

    Losing pins and pounds goes about the same with me. They both come back.

    Too funny and too true!

    #59 5 years ago
    Quoted from ToucanF16:

    Is Space Mission one in “the cue” and a keeper?

    Go ahead and restore yours.

    I have had SM for about a year and a half.
    If you have looked at my collection, you know what I have.

    Space Mission is the first game I go to. It is simple but always a fun play.
    Right now it is a keeper.

    I also have other arcade games besides pinball, mostly EM.( no video games except a Megatouch 2009).

    Cue is South Park, High Speed, Twin Rifle by CC and Williams Music Mite. Probably not in that order.

    #80 5 years ago

    I think my attention span for new acquisitions is growing shorter.
    I too play the crap out of them when they first come in but the trailing off time is much shorter.

    #86 5 years ago
    Quoted from taylor34:

    they're only buying 50% of the games that come out now, but since there are twice as many games they're still buying the same amount overall, lol.

    I think you have to take into account the influx of new people to the hobby every year.
    I think at 10 or 12 years ( 11 for me) the interest begins to fade.
    But for every guy like me who is no longer looking under every rock for any and all games, a new guy comes into the hobby with all the drive I once had.

    I am thinning and will land up with 4 machines. That will be the combined total of pins and EM type arcades.
    I peaked at 28 combined total.
    My tastes have changed. I am now looking for titles I want and i willing to pay for them. So I am buying a lot less. I only search when I feel like it and I play them less. I would like to buy older restored games because it costs so much to restore them myself.
    I would rather buy the other guys loss.

    #96 5 years ago
    Quoted from bladerunner:

    restoring a game nowadays seems to bring the cost up

    I restore games for myself and not to seek a profit later BUT the restorations always put me upside down.
    Many times I am hoping to break even on a game that I restored. If I lose money on a restoration I don't go nuts. I really enjoy making them like new again.
    I usually will keep a completed restoration for several years so I enjoy playing it and restoring it.
    I would by games restored by others but rarely find the titles I want restored the way I would do it. Games like those just stay in peoples collections.

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