I'll be the person to jump in and say that SST is priced what it is for a reason, and I don't see it jumping a ton. It's extremely violent and non-family friendly. It's cool looking, but they stuck way too many toys on the playfield that block some of what is going on.

I own a nice one, and I think it's a $1500 machine in working shape looking like that. There weren't tons of them made, so they don't come up that often and if you NEED one, expect to pay in the $2k+ range that people are talking about, but if you're patient eventually $1500 or so is a more fair price.

I do agree about it having a great lightshow.

I don't know, BSD and JD jumped maybe $500, while MM went from $5k to $12k.

I've argued this on here before, but you seem to be overlooking that I said if you need it now, it's a $2k+ pin. Those of us willing to wait can still find totally fair prices on stuff.

I own a SST. I bought it last year when the market was better then it is now for most pin purchases. I paid *far less* than $1500 for it, although it needed some work. It just so happened that the seller wanted it gone and I was willing to buy it and not ask them for help fixing it up.

It is ridiculously non-family friendly. I get it, I like the theme, but when I'm repairing it and my four year old is walking around and going "I'm going to KILL you!!!" because that's what the start button says, it makes me question it and I don't question much with themes. Good to know that my joking $4k that I put on it in the "what might you sell this year?" thread is closer to reality than I thought I guess.

This is really the smart way to do it.

If I could sell all my games for the prices people claim they are worth, my collection would be worth tons more than what people claim, but I'm realistic about it. Luckily, I don't have any reason to sell anything, and if they are worthless in the future, it won't hurt me.

It depends on how you would describe well below market. As I said, mine needed some work. I tend to buy machines that are in need of work, so I generally pay pretty far below market value because I am willing to do that work myself. It wasn't advertised publicly, but it was offered to me from a friend who sells machines all the time, and he was happy with the price because he knew that I wasn't going to come back at him asking him for help fixing it ever. In fact, I didn't even open up the machine when I bought it to see what it looked like - I tend to do that with machines I buy.

I definitely don't think that I got a steal because I spent hours upon hours shining it up and fixing it to be 100%.

Having said that, I get a $2k price for a HUO one. I also think that a $1500 price for a fully functioning one with wear is about right.

Batman Forever does sometimes too, although it's spotty.

Yup I basically never bug anyone that I get machines from, it helps to get more machines from people who like selling projects cheap, but worry that they are going to come back and have someone with 500 questions and whining about the game.

I played BW quite a bit in the garage before I loaned it to a friend over the winter. It's in storage right now, but I'm hoping that I'm less than 400 days from a new house at this point in time where I'll have time to set it and another 50 or so machines up

Seeing that this thread rose from the dead, I just noticed this, but...

Here's the problem though - No matter what anyone says, SST is NOT a family friendly theme, which most definitely limits it's market. When I was fixing mine up, my at the time three year old would hear the sounds on it and run around saying, "If you don't listen, I'll shoot you!" or whatever it says, which is rather mortifying even as someone who usually isn't worried about such stuff. It made the decision by me to put mine in storage until I got a bigger place (within a year!!) pretty easy. If I was limited in space or knew I wasn't soon going to be upgrading, even though the game is a blast and I'll be the first to tell you that I buy for myself and not others, it's gore and lack-of-family-friendly-ness outweigh the fun that I have on it, and I would have kept an equally fun, yet family friendly theme for about the same money in the line up (JP, VND, Airborne and Popeye all made the cut, for instance, and are all about the same amount of money, and I find equally if not more fun than SST).

SST is great, and a bargain at it's prices... if you have all mature enough people running around your house to handle it.