This is getting to be a very short list these days. You are mostly limited to some of the least popular segas like space jam and the premier stuff. Frankly most of these games are pretty bad.

As others have said might want to up the budget to 2500 or so will open up a lot
More options.

I don't really think so. The point people are making is that you can't really make a "want list" of sub $2K DMD games anymore.

Sure, there's an occaisional Party Zone for $1900. Or there's a Space jam that needs a display for $1850. Yeah, you dug an NBA fastbreak out of someone's basement for $1,500, lucky you.

The point is you really can't go "shopping" for a sub-2K DMD anymore, unless you are really into 1990s Premier games (and I really wouldn't recommend that!). They just aren't out there.

Almost every other game I've seen listed here is either no longer easy to find at $2,000, is no longer even close to a $2,000 game anymore, or is a rare deal that the OP is unlikely to find.

$2,500 is the new $2,000 when it comes to DMD games, and if the OP understands that the search will go a little smoother without false expectations.

It's all true, but lets face it, a rising tide raises all ships.

Fact is, DE games really never lagged very far behind your average W/B game in price, just in critical estimation. Now that there's so many more collectors all the DE stuff got snapped up too.

I used to avoid them like the plague but I'm happy to have given DE another chance. Some of their games are solid for sure, even if the total package is really never as good as the WB stuff.