24 restored and ready to play. Only room for 8 set up at a time right now though. Every 6 months or so I take some down to bring others up to be played. Makes for an ever changing lineup that is always clean and ready. 9 Classic Sterns, 10 Classic Ballys, 4 70's Gottliebs, 1 Williams (Funhouse).

Don't come on pinside with your lies . Your wife didn't seem to OK with 20 last time I was over

i could easily fit maybe 25 in my basement, but I prefer to stay married. so, sadly, my limit is 4 for the foreseeable future.

it's actually fine -- with how much of a perfectionist i am with my games, i think the maintenance and upkeep would become a significant burden if I had many more games. either that, or my standards would go down.

second that
plus living in an apartment in a big city limits your space quite a bit. and i want to keep one side of the room free for the movie projector.
nevertheless i consider myself quite lucky to have a seperate room to fit 5 pins & 2 arcades comfortably.

cheers

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Dedicated room with a massive power box that only has to deal with the basement.

...and a sub-panel in the second basement area.

Pete

The game room was designed to allow 45 pins with plenty of space to walk around and take playfield glass off (and enough outlets and power). Probably could get 60+ squeezed in (which I would never do). Then the old basement arcade could be reused for another 40+..... though that will never happen either.

Max, getting in the car now. Be right over, I assume you'll have them all warmed-up & ready!

Yesterday, I just removed by 65 inch DLP TV and put a different flat screen TV up above the pins in the room. Made space for 2 new pins. Little things make a small mind happy. It cost a few grand (with install) but that's cheaper than the construction cost of the addition I was considering.

Only 10 in my gameroom, currently at 9. I refuse to put them in a living room, kitchen, or bedroom like some people do.

hahaha, I thought you were too busy taking games from under me to be on pinside. #shadowstealer

I have 10 in my basement but could fit 4 more. 5 if I wanted to really squeeze them together but I don't like them that close. I would have to get rid of things to make room for more.

We've opted for the strategy of "we don't need to park in the garage". Instead of 5 in the living room, 1 in the kitchen, 2 in the office - we can now have 17 on and playing in the garagecade. The house feels a lot bigger and we get to enjoy the machines all in one spot instead of all over the house. It's still a work in progress but it gets better and better.

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I am at 26 in my basement gameroom, I can overflow into the basement living space if needed.

Here's part of the room

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What if you have 20 wives?

plenty of space to walk around if no one is playing the games. I was 'trapped' once at one of the events because I could not get around people playing with the machines.
That is the reason the machines are angled on one wall at our place. We needed to account for people playing the games. I see many people make the mistake of arranging their pins without taking into account the space for a player and for traffic. I listened to the players, made the changes and now people are happy with the changes to the placement. Sure, it can get crowded, but for the most part, people are comfortable and can move around. That is something I put value on and I encourage anyone who has people over to consider. It also helps during tournaments when groups of people are playing together.

My space isn't large, but most people say it is quite comfortable.

Houses are a lot smaller in Europe, and especially here in the UK. I have room to set up just five machines. Three in the Lounge and two in the main bedroom. I currently have only four games set up, as having two machines in the bedroom makes things crowded.

Oh for the massive basements and garages of you lucky North American collectors!

If I could convince the wife to get rid of all this useless furniture that is taking up valuable space, I could easily fit probably 60 or more.

Realistically I can fit about 10; have 8 now. No basement here, water table is too high. Dig down about 2 feet and hit water.

The only cat I have is Williams"Bad Cats"and the only other cat I would own is"F14 tomcat"!

Why waste good pinball money on a t.v.?

That was my answer lol

One in the living room, one in the dining room, two in the kitchen. There's one other spot in the living room, but it's too close to a window and I'd lose my yoga space. The bedroom is off-limits to pins, but if I ever find a Spectrum, that rule goes right out window.

If I win the Powerball I'll buy a house down the street and make it my Pinball Annex.

5 comfortably but going to wedge 1 more in so 6. Unless my wife has an epiphany and decides to lift the ban of no pinball above the basement!

I can do 17 in my gameroom. If I converted my air conditioned garage, I could easily put 40 out there.

Right now 8 potential room for up to 25.

3 with a potential for 21 or so. For me, less is more, and I like to have other hobbies.

60 odd in the basement in a 'pin only' configuration, 30 in my pinball garage, and 100 or so in my shed (barn). All these areas are currently used for games or games storage, with only the games in the basement currently playable. All spaces have been fully setup in the past.

So probably somewhere up near 200 if I was organised, but I'm not, so lets call it 50ish which is what is currently set up

Shed when it had 97 games setup:

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Garage when it had 30 (can't be bothered linking all the rows but you get an idea from this):

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Batcave now (basement):

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Nice Joists.

I think the best number for me would be about 2 dozen; however, I am limited to 9 as that is what I can fit into my pinball cave. If the collection would metastasize out of there I would have a seriously pissed off wife...
So that means whenever I want to get a new machine something has to go out. That limitation actually makes me really think critically about machines and opt for the what I really like in game-play - which is currently an objective-focused game rather than mode-based. So the goal is a collection with decent variety within that framework - sort of a quality rather than quantity. That said, I honestly can't really do that in less than 20-24 machines...

100 plus, easy.

My wife wanted it off the other rooms so everyone can mingle.
Joke is we don't mingle.