You already owned ST for a long while. Go with something new. I had a ST pro for around 3 years. Enjoyed it and played it a lot during that time. It just got to the point where it was time to move on. My biggest issue was the first level modes took so long to complete. Timers would stop when the ball was in the pops and when you cradled the ball. And if you hit the black hole target it adds even more time. If they made it easier to start modes, shortened level one modes, and had more to do between modes the game would be so much better. I'm a decent player and only saw the 2nd wizard mode twice. MET got an update to make the game easier and take away some of the wood chopping. ST needs the same.

I say go for MB. It's not my favorite game but I think it would be awesome to own one. Playfield is gorgeous and it's about as classic as you can get. Guests will love it. If it was your only pin, it might get stale fast. In a larger collection, it would be great to play when you just want to have fun and enjoy good, campy pinball. If you do get sick of it, it should be easy to sell.

I did like the away team missions. Having an alternative mode was a cool idea but wasn't really utilized well. There wasn't much advantage of doing them besides maybe more points. Some were nice to bring into mb but that's about it. Most modes in pinball are just shoot the lit shots. ST had great flow so it was always fun shooting shots in whatever mode. I think the problem was that there are so many modes and very little advantage to playing them out. Sure you can get medals and shot multipliers but I always found it hard to turn those into anything substantial points because so many shots were required. Easy solution would be to have the black hole mystery award better things. Awards were never changed through the updates and most of them were worthless.