You want a good bang for your buck game that will also meet your Arnold needs. Last action hero. Lots of stuff to do on it, data east games are great for first pins in general. My wife wanted a LAH so she just went and bought one about 16 months ago, I tinker with it.
I continue to do the buy add cash trade up game as far as my personal game, started from a EM, fixed it, sold it, added cash, got a gottlieb system 3, fixed it sold it added cash got a stern spiderman, upgraded it, traded and added cash for a NIB iron maiden, if you don't have income to throw around, you are gonna have to play the long game when it comes to getting what you want.
But if your working with 3k give or take... Do yourself a favor and look at data east games ( Jurassic park, star wars, LAH, lethal weapon, tales from the crypt) they are going up, but are a great bang for buck IMO, but a great way to learn on modern era games. Hell data east turned into stern eventually.