My advice would be to get an ion fusion. I have had a few versions and ion fusion has the best games. They have the joystick and the buttons for about half of the games although all games work with touch screen as well. I think you can stay in the $500-600 range but it can take awhile to find a flat screen ion fusion. I currently have an ion fusion upright. It was not working when I got it so it was kinda cheap. It needed a new power supply for $30 and then I had to jumper a couple of wires to kick start the motherboard. It had 2008.5 software in it but I upgraded to 2013 at some point. That was easy to do. They are very reliable but there is a guy in rockaway that fixes them and has parts should anything break. I think its a great addition for what you pay compared to pinball machines.

It does have those games. I think its called feeding frosty. There is a lot of great games for kids. There used to be a list on the merit website of the chronology of games but I looked and its no longer there. I might have the file on my computer still but I will have to look later. The last version came out in 2014 and you would think that the latest version would have all the games they ever did but at some point they started eliminating some of the older games.

If you decide to go with an upright, this is the model I have. As you can see it has a small footprint.

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I saw this one on craigslist york.craigslist.org link

Its probably something with the motherboard if it freezes up and will only get worse. I don't know how to troubleshoot that but I could refer you to somebody who fixes them. I would let the guy know who you recently purchased it from.