Quoted from Saveleaningtower:

TZ. Wish I still had it.

Quoted from AJB4:

well Diner was my first and I felt that if I got Taxi to sit beside it, those would be my 2 pins. But my wife balked at me buying a second game... So I traded for a Tron pro and now 7 years later I have had well over 60 trades in and out. If she had just let me get that Taxi, I would probably have called it a 2 pin Diner /Taxi collection.

Quoted from zarco:

Gtb SPIDERMAN. That was 33 years ago now and it still gets played
regularly. Never gotten old. It was a fluke purchase and after fixing
and playing it for a while could see that I needed more. The rest
is history!

Quoted from McDoom:

Deadpool pro, but I'm hoping to own the premium version soon.

Quoted from horseflesh:

My first was The Shadow.
My pinball journey was kind of weird compared to most people, I think, because I didn't grow up loving them. I was all about video games as a kid, never even thought about pinball.
So, nearly 20 years ago, I was in a pizza place with my first wife. They had a TOM in there. On a lark, I played it... I was about 30 at the time and I had not played a pinball machine since I was a little kid... and I never played one thoughtfully. Turns out, once I paid attention to pinball I @%#@ loved it! That TOM was clapped out and I don't think the trunk worked properly, but it really spoke to me. You know how it is or you wouldn't be on this forum.
A couple of weeks go by and I am looking up info on the internet and reading rec.games.pinball and I start thinking, I should buy a game... I soon found TS for sale at a local operator... it $1600 in 2002-2003? So I probably overpaid a lot. And I bought it not knowing much about pinball, really. It was just the first one I found that I could afford that had a decent rep. I kind of knew some of the stuff to look at as a buyer, because I am a good researcher. But I was certainly green!
Here's how much I didn't know about pinball: the first time I set off the knocker on TS at home, I had to look it up online. "WTF was that noise?!"
I got more games, as we do... I let some go, and eventually even sold TS to my wife's family. I turned them on to the idea of having games and they ended up with a couple. But I soon missed TS so much I bought another one.
That wife is gone, but TS is here to stay, haha.

Quoted from chris_p:

It was 1995 when I stumbled upon a "rule sheet" for Addams Family. My wife and I were all OMG, pinball has RULES? Not just try to keep the ball rolling? I printed a copy and next time we were at Wrightsville Beach at Johnnie Mercers Pier (it was made of wood then before Hurricane Fran, not concrete ), we had pages of rules. http://pinball.org/rules/addamsfamily.html
Then on a whim I typed PINBALL into ebay.... I had NO IDEA that you could BUY a WHOLE PINBALL MACHINE - OMG ^2!
NOT ONLY was I able to give my wife a used but beautiful pinball machine for her birthday, but it was ALSO her DREAM TITLE and we had no idea such a thing existed! We still have that $1500 Data East Guns and Roses :0
Never swore it would be the only one tho hahahaha....

Quoted from Completist:

Cirqus Voltaire. Picked up up around New Years 2015. I played a bunch of games on Pinball Arcade and kept coming back to it. I knew a guy who knew a guy who had a large collection (50+) and was nice enough to let me play his games. And still liked CV. So that was the one.
By some coincidence i was able to find one for sale locally. Had to be fate as i was living in Ontario where supply was low and demand high. So i jumped on it. Claimed to be HUO, appears to live up to that as its very clean inside and out.
But then it got lonely. VERY lonely. I’m not cruel, how could i deprive it of friends? I still own my it today. Maybe not my best pin but will likely be my last purely for sentimental reasons. And its my kids fav so it goes nowhere. [quoted image]