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This is the 5th machine I bought since entering the hobby about two years ago, figured it was time to post in this thread. I got this one from fellow pinsider @brobra. Very cool guy who I would definitely buy from again!

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Ok, who got this one? I messaged the seller 30min after the ad was posted but someone was already there loading it up. Seller was pretty floored when I told her what they usually go for.

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I told her 2500 would have been a fair asking price...pinside estimate is 2400-2800. Yeah she was pretty bummed. This wasn't a machine I normally would go after but for the price I would've loved to take it home, oh well. About the 3rd time this year I missed out on a super low priced machine...I need to change my alert settings or something.

It was 3 hrs from me so I figured by the time I got there someone would have messaged the seller and told them they were selling too low. But really for the price, and if you have room why not.

Oh well, one day it will be my turn to buy a machine drastically underpriced

I've only seen one sold in Iowa in the last 2 yrs and it sold within one day at 2k. Not saying it's a great game, but definitely worth more than $800.

That Terrific Lake is sweet! What is it a re-theme of?

I've been wanting one for a while and finally was able to pick up a firepower. Sorry, I forgot to do a pic in the vehicle.

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Picked up a Very dirty metoer. It's playable but is going to need some love. Displays are wonky, several hacks I will need to adress and probably many more issues. Not bad for $300 though.

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I'm in north west IA. I'm going to shop it out and fix the major issues. I'll probably sell it when the family gets tired of it...

No I didn't. You have this confused with another machine. I bought this in Iowa not Cincinnati.

Goldeneye last week, TFTC today! The clown puke on goldeneye will be gone as soon as my comet order arrives.

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Dude, I love this! I totally need an 80s corner....its my favorite era of games.

Nothing! Machine was in much worse shape than advertised. Didnt boot up, severe acid damage to MPU. Playfeild was trashed and had several areas of amazingly awful touchup. Beat to crap cabinet, "great shape" and HUO were the descriptions. Seller Googled the machine so "new what it was worth" and wouldn't budge from asking price even after I pointed out the numerous issues. Hurts to walk away but oh well.

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Advertised as "just stopped working, but was working great". Probablly hadnt worked in a decade or more. I was expecting a minor project. It wasn't going to be worth my time and effort to repair it for what he was asking so I had to pass. Partly my fault, I shouldve asked for better pictures. The owner was elderly and a non pinball guy. Grandson (also not a pinball guy) was selling it for him, grandson looked up the price and "knew he could get a lot more than I offered." I told him good luck.

3hrs 1 way....yep, sucks to suck. It's alright though, my oldest son came with me and we got to spend time together, so not totally wasted.

I live in a total pinball deadzone, every machine I've bought so far (10 or so) has been at least a 3hr, 1 way drive from me. The last several have been non working projects from nonpinball people that usually just want the machine gone so I don't bother asking for a bunch of pictures and usually just show up, and negotiate the price. It's worked fine up until now.

That was my thought as well. The guy just marked the machine as sold so someone else's problem now. I need to finish my hardtop install in my firepower anyway before I get distracted by another project.

Yep. Definetely had been on location at one point in its life. It really wasn't a desirable title for me, but the price was decent....or at least I thought until I saw the condition and started mentally adding up how much I'd have to put into it. Oh well. Lesson learned. Ask for better pictures next time.

This was the second pinball machine I owned. Had it for about 2 years. It's a very unique and fun game. It's known for having a bad sound track but I never minded the sounds. I put comet fire bulbs under the lava in the center insert, made it had a really sweet effect. I would definitely buy this one again.

I had no problem with the sounds either. I liked all the "jungle noises". Can you ESCAPE?!

Next project, I'm excited to get started on this one.

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