You will probably just buy whatever title you can find locally.

DO NOT BUY YOUR FIRST PIN SIGHT UNSEEN FROM THE INTERNET. You will get your ass ripped wide open.

Join the local pin league, keep an eye on Craigslist, look for LOCAL sellers on Pinside and MrPinball.

Have your cash and transportation ready at a moment's notice. If you have to wait until the weekend to borrow your brother's van, that game will be long gone. Even if the seller says he will hold it for you, someone else will call and offer $200 more than you, and then suddenly "Hey I'm so sorry, my wife won't let me sell it..... ". You don't want that phone call after getting your dander up for a day or so.

I bet you can get this for $500 bucks: charlottesville.craigslist.org link

They made 20,000 of them, so they are cheap. Fast game, it will up your reaction time.

Don't knock up any broads either.

Take the condom with you, don't leave it in the trash.

Having an older, easier to service game will hone your pinball maintenance skills without overwhelming you.

Pins are constantly breaking down.

You will soon learn how to read a schematic, use a VOM meter, diagnose switch matrix errors, find dead transistors, replace smoked coils, rebuild sluggish pop bumpers and flippers.

You will never roll F14.

If you ever get close, you can put the "divide by 10" ROMs in.