Hello, I am relatively new to pinball. I have been browsing this site for a year and finally bought my own machine a few weeks ago (Pin Bot). I see so much talk and discussion about how much a machine is really worth and why one machine is worth more than others.
My question is who are the Key people in the world of pinball? Who are the people that really make a machine worth more or more popular across the board regardless of how others feel about the game, or the other end of the spectrum if they say anything negative about it the machine instantly loses some of its appeal and value across all other players?
I was thinking how cool it would be if I could go back in time and get some of the now amazingly expensive games back before they became so expensive. Then I thought what if I bought the game and ended up taking that copy of the game away from a Key pinball person so they never got to buy it or make the game super popular, would it be worth as much today?
Maybe I am over thinking this and no such person exists.