$2,000 to $2,500

I just bought (and rebuilt) a completely torn apart one. Paid $2000 for the machine as it was, and about $1200 in parts when all was said and done. That included new ramps, new Rudy parts, new posts, pop bumper parts, transistors, connectors, display glass panel, plastics, LEDs, and a ton of other stuff I know I am forgetting. Its a keeper for me, but if I were to sell it, I wouldn't take anything less than $5500. Yes thats a tad high, but I don't plan on selling mine any time soon.

For a sample thats already working, I would venture around $3500-4000 on the low end. I would imagine these would be more popular than the standard ones due to the Diamondplate playfield and their very limited production run.

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Maybe on a gutted Diamond Plate machine... A real sample in working condition would run in the $4k range. A fine Diamond Plate example around $6k.

some of those prices are stupid high. and i'm no price police. and unless "sample" means something close to or at CQ then 5k+ is much too high.

if the game is working properly and in decent shape, you know, not like super shiny, then shoot for the 3k to 4k range

The prices might be high... but they only made 100 of them (some say 200). Took me 2.5 years of DAILY looking across the entire USA to find a decent Diamond Plate Funhouse. Most people that have them, aren't selling.

BTW, if you do get it... and you want to upgrade the ROM, you can only upgrade it so far version-wise. The sound board setup is different than the production models. No biggie, the ROM version the samples use is just fine. Just make sure you check into it if you plan to upgrade the ROM.

Darin...if you can pull it off, buy it....as others have said, sample games are normally worth a few extra bucks as well as the games with the DP playfield. The one you are looking at has both. This may be the last time you ever see a sample/DP Funhouse again.

Not sure if you noticed the two Funhouse's at Allentown, but they both sold in the $3k range. And, from what I have heard, 5 more of them would have sold at that price if they were available. (and frankly they were far from perfect, nor were they samples, nor did they have DP playfields). I am tearing mine down right now. Let me know if you need a hand or a machine to compare to.

Very little difference in the ROMs... If you'd like, I can boot my machine tonight and check which ROM is the latest that can be used in the sample machines.

There's a web site out there that details all the differences on the samples VS regular production. Off the top of my head the differences are:

1-Rudy's face has slightly difference blush on his cheeks.
2-Start button is an "outie" VS an "innie"
3-Volume pot is on the inside left wall inside the cab. The up/down volume buttons are on the door like later machines, but don't do anything. You need to use the volume pot.
4-Thicker side rails... flipper buttons go THROUGH the rails... Production versions have the thinner rails with the buttons below the rails.
5-More lights in the backbox behind the words "Funhouse".
6-Seperate sound board. ...which means you can't use the latest ROM (no biggie at all).
7-I think the wording on the upper-left skill shot wording is slightly different if I recall...
8-Diamond Plate noted on playfield. I believe a smaller number of Sun Process playfields were produced. Not sure if it's as good as Diamond Plate. Maybe someone else knows.

Finally, there are a few Prototype Funhouse machines out there... They actually had a different target setup (STEPS VS STEP I believe). I can't recall how many of those were produced.. 5, 10, 20? I'm not sure they were clearcoated though so not sure personally I'd want one. I saw a Prototype machine for sale ONCE during my search for an original Diamond Plate playfield... I think it sold for $7,000.

The latest you can run on a sample game is L-5.

The 9.05H ROM adds a few neat features, like Rudy being able to blink, but its nothing earth shattering.

Sun Process invented Diamondplate. The '200' samples were a mix of Diamondplate, Lacquer and LS Topcoat. Most were diamondplate, then lacquer and finally LS Topcoat, in amounts of production. I've only seen 3 or 4 topcoat funhouses.

Topcoat is not necessarily a good thing. It didn't wear as well as diamondplate did.

The topcoat playfields I've seen/owned also used a prototype screen. Where the original P target would've been, there's a white circle in the artwork where the insert would've been in the playfield.

I paid around 3800 for mine a long time ago after an extensive search.They sure won't be getting any easier to find.

Thanks for the info! I think I might have ordered my L-5 from you.

Also, here's some more info:

http://www.flippers.be/funhouse_prototype_guide.html

http://www.hsapinball.com/HSA_PINBALL/Proto_Funhouse.html