TAF. It was the game I fell in love with as a kid. It was the game I dreamt about buying for years and years till my now wife convinced me to just buy one.
It was the game that broke the first week of ownership and led me to Pinside where I learned to fix and rebuild and meet other fun pinheads. It was the first game I put on route and everyone loves playing it and it makes me happy to turn on so many new pinheads with the game I loved first. Eventually it will come home from route and I will restore it a second time for myself.
FT was a game by pops loaned me the money to buy so I could do a full restoration on it. It is the ACTUAL fish tales I grew up playing in the cabin resort bar basement as a kid. That game was operated at that one and only bar for its entire life. I probably paid for it 3x over with quarters as a kid while hanging with my pops as he drank at the bar. Once I was in the hobby of collecting pins for myself I spoke to the operator and convinced him to sell to me. We actually played a game and the price was lowered by $100 since I beat him. Super nice guy and he has sold me a few games since. Well I completely restored the game and it won 1st place for best DMD at Midwest Gaming Classic. Made my pops super proud to see how I was able to take it from a route queen to a beauty and I put a lot of work into that game.
All the games I own have some degree of personal value. They each have a story; where you got them, the work to bring them back to life, the travel to get them, etc... But those 2 games have real sentimental value for me