VP Cabs made a big splash at SFGE. Their machines are really great. I say this as someone who does not like video pinball in general. That said, I would take the Vertigo. It is a very unique form factor and can be put in a small area that does not take up nearly the space of a full pinball cabinet. It plays tons of great pinball machines and tons of video games too. For $3500 it is a good deal. If I did get one, I would have to get the saw out and cut off the lip at the right and left hand side of the control panel. It is really painful to play pinball on it for very long in its stock form. Hopefully they will fix this soon...

Actually my friends and I all preferred the stand up format and enjoyed playing pinball on it. Personally the horizontal games just don't work for me for two reasons. One, they are trying to be something they are not. As long as they don't have a real steel ball rolling around, they are not a pinball machine. It is a video game and the VP Cabs have dozens of great non-pinball video games that work amazing in the Vertigo cabinet. Second, the Vertigo hardly takes up any room. Like many, I am a little limited on room and none of these machines are worth the space that a pinball machine could fit into. The fact that it is by far my favorite format and it is also the least expensive does not hurt either!

Funny how two people can see the same machine and have a completely opposite opinion.