Nice! Welcome to the very large club of appreciation for this collectible breed of pinball machine. These games are some of the best and most iconic games there are. (Williams and Bally single-players are great too though and often go way more unrecognized)

Only question now is which is gonna be your second? They sure look good in multiples...

Be sure to share some pictures when you are done cleaning it up. Sure Shot is a great game.

The nice thing about EM games is that often times you don't even need to wait on parts to arrive like you would for a solid-state game. I *hate* waiting for packages to finish up solid state games and find that for EM games you can often times get it playing and functional without many/any parts at all as long as it is complete to begin with, which more often than not they seem to be. And you can do that while you wait for your parts order for a new ball, new rubbers, etc., all the stuff that isn't required for it to become functional. Love it!

Is is already flaking off or is it just a concern? Because it actually really doesn't happen very much under the correct conditions unless it has already started. (I have a game that does when you rub up against it, oops)

Some people wax their cabinets to protect them from little mishaps but I don't think that would stop flaking paint. Unless it's already flaking heavily with light touches, I wouldn't worry about it.