11 years ago.

Space Shuttle, 500 bucks.

This used to be a hobby where you could teach yourself some things, learn a lot from other people, buy beater games cheap and do a quality job of bringing them back to life and turn a fair bit of cash to put back into other games. Not so much anymore. All the really good deals are either insider trades (i.e. "I know a guy with a warehouse") or other private sales. Cragislist? Forget about it. Prices are batshit across the board, not just with new in box. The range of prices for available games has gone from 200-1500 for low tier solid states and EMs to 1200-2500. It's just not worth buying trashy games anymore.

I'm getting Ultraman, and hopefully Godzilla at some point, as those are both grail themes for me, and waaaay down the road I may pick up a STTNG or Metallica to satisfy my wife......but other than that...unless a really good deal just falls in my lap, I'm over owning games. It physically hurts too much to work on them for more than about 20-30 minutes, and I don't really enjoy working on them anymore the way I used to. I don't plan on buying anything after that, even if I do have the money, which is highly unlikely, since almost all of the money I've spent in pinball over 10 years primarily came from resurrecting dead games.