I've seen a few threads about this subject before and they usually end up with everyone agreeing that it doesn't really matter. The most important aspect of the game is the condition. You'll have people say they have games with bazillions of plays that look brand new and others have games with 100 plays and look like beaters. I think they were put in there for ops to determine which games were getting more play or for bookkeeping purposes anyway. I haven't heard of a game with ridiculously low plays increasing the value at all.

The op isn't asking about condition - I think the point is just pondering what people would consider low plays.

I have absolutely no idea.. I have yet to delve into the book keeping on any of mine but I'd be curious especially if some peoples games showed some kind of consistency - as in certain titles tending to have way more plays. I would have to assume that Games like taf and mm statistically would trend higher on plays but I wonder if some newer titles might be slowly catching up.

I think it really depends on era of game.

A Jet Spin with 30,000 plays is pretty damn low in my book. I would consider any EM with less than 50,000 pretty low.

As a former route guy, I can say that trusting the meters on an old EM is not wise. They hardly ever matched the coin box cash when collecting each week. In some EM's, the counters wouldn't even work or they'd stop so we would have to replace them. On the SS games, all you had to do is reset the audits or pull the batteries and there was no way to verify how many games were played on it. All play/coin audits on the SS games were always reset when a game was moved to a new location or sold.

Steve

I have a Gottlieb Pioneer with 26,942 plays on the meter.

Never really understood low plays as an indicator of use. 50 plays from someone who can make it deep into games provides more stress than a couple hundred flail fest from your average Joe. Games are meant to be played and limiting your play to keep value is equally baffling. If you take care of your games it will be noticeable..

Alan