Quoted from fiberdude120:I have never played SS but I have a TOM and I never play it. Just dont like it.
I'll buy it!
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Quoted from fiberdude120:I have never played SS but I have a TOM and I never play it. Just dont like it.
I'll buy it!
Quoted from frankmac:Thinking of grabbing one of these pins any suggestions on these?
IMHO you can't go wrong with either one as both are great games.
Quoted from pinballaddicted:I feel that TOM will be remade at some point, giving you a lot more options for that game soon. For that reason, we are thinking about buying a SS.
Very good point.
Quoted from delt31:sounds like a really bad decision to not buy them at 3k.....
Not really, when these games were released $3K was a lot more than it is today. Using gold as a standard of measure ... the purchasing power of $3K in 1995 was the equivalent of $9900 today. Why does this matter? Let me tell you a little story that involves myself as a much younger pinball enthusiast and a certain Pinball Machine....
It was 1990, and a new Williams Pinball machine arrived at my local hangout where I had my lunch everyday...it was a Funhouse with this amazing talking head named Rudy! Wow, what an amazing game and it was so addictive to play, by far the best pinball machine I had ever seen and I wanted one bad! I had $2,000 saved up and was ready to buy my first pinball machine! I found the phone number for my local Williams distributor (pre-internet) and gave them a call; I was told that a new Funhouse would be $2800 + tax delivered coming to a total of $2940. Wow nearly 1/3 more than I had, no matter how I tried...there was absolutely no way I could budget the extra $940 for this ... I had to shrug it off as it was just not meant to be and 28 years later, this machine is still #1 on my wish list. The thing you have to keep in mind here is that in 1990 that $2940 Funhouse is the same as paying $10,457 today...and as a young 20 something, that extra $940 I couldn't budget for, and is the equivalent of finding an extra $3343 that you don't have today.
Gold today = $1252/oz
Gold June 1995 = $387/oz
Gold June 1990 = $352/oz
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