Find someone local who has worked on Williams games and invite over for a meal and beverages to open up and show you around.

Didn’t the seller spend a few minutes to give you an overview?

Congrats! You should be able to find a High Speed under 2K for sure. If you find a NGG for 2K...pay for it as fast as you can and never look back . Good luck stopping at 2 - I said that 9 games ago.

Being a EM machine if it works alright I wouldn't mess with it.

This! Buy non working one and tinker with that.

I think a system 11 is in order for a first pin. And to cater to the nine year old, look at Mousin Around, or Bad Cats for a title.

Pinbot is popular with kids. Is cheap. And is a system 11

NGG usually go for 3800-4800 where I live.

F-14 is fast and hard. My kids liked it but only for a little bit. We have had a lot of system 11s and they enjoyed them but the can be unforgiving. The ones the seem to play the most is the newer ones or mid 90s with the dmd. Main reason is ball save time can be changed so the game isn’t over so quick. If you’re thinking high speed, I would consider high speed 2 which is called The Getaway. Good pin and that’s really fun to play.

On all our pins that i can i will adjust the settings to make it easier. I make all my pins pretty easy for the kids. Any award, specials etc i put as extra balls. I also move the out lane posts in and have 15 sec for ball saves. It has worked well so far. We play pins as a family at least once a week

Has anyone mentioned Playboy? He'll thank you in a few years

Can also confirm Mousin Around is a hit!

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For a 9 year old boy I'd suggest Gtb Spiderman.
Great game with great graphics. It'd be a good first pin
too. Save the remaining $4K as his (and your) interest
blooms.
Steve

My son is 9 as well and he's been playing pinball since about 7 years old. He has quickly become a very good pinball player and came in 7th in a 35 person tournament last summer. He's currently doing great in a local league. His absolute favorite machine right now is Attack from Mars with Addams family a close second. We have three machines at home Munsters, Stranger Things, and F-14. His order is probably Stranger Things - Munsters - F-14 (doesn't really play that one). As he gets older I'll probably get deeper machines but for now these are good.

F-14 Tomcat is a great game...lots of action, lights, etc. I had one, but sold for a price I couldn't refuse and replaced it with my Corvette machine.

Seriously considering adding F-14 Tomcat back into collection.

Any pat Lawler game you can not go wrong with just hard to find a cheap one

Congrats! Next time just get whatever you want and tell your wife, "it is for the kids"...

Seriously, though, congrats.

Looks great. I would leave the mylar alone. Dim the lights you won't even notice it.

If you try to remove the mylar, there is a good chance it will take parts the playfield artwork with it. It can be a tricky job even for an expert.

Unless the mylar is a real problem, you should just leave it.

Clearly this by your description.

Ugh. Get those God awful LED's out of that Aztec.

My experience has been that pinball machines are like water: they fill their container until it is full. Fortunately/unfortunately for me, I've never had room for more than 7 pins in my game room. So I'm (somewhat reluctantly) content to keep that as my limit.

I have several friends, however, who have pins scattered across multiple rooms in their homes. To them, the entire house's floorpan is their limit (which includes space in the garage for those who live in temperate climes.) The only reason I don't do that (besides controlling cost and fear of them taking over) is that I'll regularly invite a group of people over to play so I don't want them traipsing all over my house to try all my games.

So far I've been able to stick to my "all pins must live in my one and only game room" rule. But I have been VERY tempted WAY too many times when I see a game I'd really like to own and start thinking things like "Do I really need that dining room set? It rarely gets used ..." and "you know ... if I moved the sofa over there and put one end against the wall and then got rid of the end table I wouldn't need any more ..." In short: I need willpower to not get Firepower.

No one has mentioned Bugs Bunny's birthday ball.
This game was designed for exactly this.

damn that game looks good. Great work on the lighting.

Hey everybody! Get a load of THIS guy: he thinks he's going to be able to stop.

How? By going cold turkey? Or have they developed a patch for that?

That game was designed to be burned.

Ha thanks! Comet gets all the credit. Frosted cool white (yes, cool white rules you warm white people ) in the GI and backbox and clear non-ghosting color matched inserts. That's all there is to it!

I remember saying I was done at 3 like 16 games ago.

I agree with not being able to stop. I wanted 4 when i started collecting. That was it. Now I have 39 and don't even own any of the 4 anymore that I wanted from the beginning.