Quoted from Travish:

Don't get a glass cooktop. You can thank me later.

Quoted from ForceFlow:

I see used appliances at garages sales for a couple hundred bucks occasionally. The best ones are usually from kitchens that were remodeled, and are usually still nice and in working order.

Quoted from DanQverymuch:

This has been bothering me for nigh unto two years.
Why? Because every time I look at my own glass cooktop (which still looks fine, thank you) I wonder why the guy would thank anyone for suggesting he not do something that he didn't do and thus never regretted.
Besides, I've seen nasty ones, to be sure, but you just have to keep them clean. I imagine my induction top, which doesn't get hot directly, is less prone to getting all scorched, but still.
There, now I can at least stop debating with myself whether to say anything!

Quoted from J85M:

Holy crap, appliances are insanely expensive over in the US.
I have a fridge that has a camera in it linked to my mobile (cell) phone so if I forget what I have in/need to buy I can simply check what I need/already have in, my oven is also linked to my phone, misses often puts stuff in the oven while she is out with oven off, while she is out she can turn the oven on and set it from her phone so once she gets back in with the kids food is pretty much ready.
These are high end in the UK but about half the cost of what you listed, which I find surprising as nearly everything in the UK is a rip off compared to everywhere else in the world. I thought I was mad when I brought my stuff, you are a whole new level of mad
To answer the main question though, yeah pinball is WAY too expensive but like most things I enjoy these days they are all too expensive so its probably my own fault I don't have cheaper tastes/hobbies