I was the disappointed third, you bastard. Congrats though.

Holy shit what the heck is that???
Never seen one.

It's a good one and was well worth the wait. A great player with most unique rules.

And like the rest of these, won't be leaving to make room for any others.

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They only made 675 of these!

WTB: Gold Strike

Do you need to add a ball?

Haha

The list is very long for Solid State and beyond games.

But for EMs pretty short.
1000% Fireball.
Bally’s Big Foot would be definitely top of the list. I had proof of its existence I’d be hauling it right now.
Loop The Loop was incredibly fun.

Probably any machine made by Rally. I love those games. They’re so cool, and I love Nixie tubes too!

Oh and probably Balls-a-poppin because that’s the most ridiculous game I’ve ever seen.

The worst thing about buying an EM is having to listen to the seller's Beach Boys cd as you roll up.

I am not an EM guy, but that changed after I played Beat the Clock. I first played that at TPF and I probably put a hundred plays on it!! Also on my list is a Medusa, really enjoyed watching high end pins do that one. I would also really like to have a safecracker.

There's always that one exception

AFM before the remakes were ever a reality. Played it back in 1995 at Q-Zar, remembered it all the way to March 2016 when I finally got one for $8250.

Now that I have it, I dunno if I really have a grail game anymore. Maybe Champion Pub - maybe. It's a bit of a unicorn in that many weren't made and you don't see them often.

I have not 1 but 4 GRAIL pins !

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Hi every body.
It was my two grails Gemini and Solar ride, now it's a Mermaid.
Good day and take care.

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Where are all these Gemini's popping up? I'm trying not to be too terribly jealous!

Funny grail pin, for sure, it's a nice mix of EM solar ride and vulcan lightbox !

I miss having a grail pin. I used to have them, but now I’ve owned them. Some are still here, others have been sold after thousands of plays. I still buy games I like, but I’m not on a quest to find that one game anymore.

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I collect 2 player Gottliebs, but I simply have determined that I’ll never own Space Walk because they will not come up for sale and be REASONABLY priced if it ever does.

Looks beautiful and congrats on that beauty

If there can only be one grail for me, it would be Strange World. El Dorado comes in at a not too close 2nd, but since everyone has seen and played an El Dorado, it has less of an appeal for me.

Yes,you have the eye of tiger Andrew.

First it was Atlantis, then I got it. Then it was Firepower, then I got it.

Now it's Old Chicago and/or Flash Gordon. So if anyone wants to sell either...

Atlantis and FP are never sells for me. Love both of those games.

Only grail I am yet to own.

Well, like most of these listed, it has to be somebody's grail.

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Rockola World Series or Jigsaw.
Steve

A TKO would be nice. Fat chance of finding one locally, or even in Canada.

Just got my MMRRE. Been trying to get an MM since 2005. Could never justify the silly prices for used ones.

Now I’ve got her. My Alpha. My Omega. AND! NIB. Fantasy pipe dream in 2005.

A friend of mine mentioned that Astro was his grail pin, so ever since then I have been on the hunt.

My wife might just divorce me if I brought another pin home now, but if a C37 came up for sale locally at a fair price....
I kid, I kid.

I thought about listing my top 5 but had to go with 6; Kings & Queens (I have a Wade playfield, but no game), Pleasure Isle, Double Barrel, Star Jet, Big Hit, & Strange World

My grail right now, although not an EM, is a Nascar as nice as the one I sold several years ago.

What comes around, goes around.

Fast Draw turned out to be my all-time grail pin, but when I got it 30+ years ago I didn't know it yet. I know it's unlikely I'll ever find an EM I never get tired of playing all day long like FD but I could go for a Joker Poker or Royal Flush/Card Whiz. Or find another Flip A Card or Jacks Open to replace the ones I sold like an idiot. I don't like to think too much about the great ones I let go. The ones where you say "I'm never gonna sell this pin!" but somehow or other you did.

For me,my grail WAS "The Beatles"until Stern went to a girly re theme and destroyed it

Melody!
I love everything about it.
The artwork and gameplay are awesome!

I got one a few years ago.
Pics are right after I got it home, before I did any work on it.

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Cosmos, you dont see it much, I am not em pinball guy but this pinball was the first I saw as a kid growing up and one of my dad's first pins in the 70's now I own it and won't part from it for anything.

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A HEP El Dorado for me. .

frenchmarky - I have a Card Whiz right next to my Quick Draw...and I love them both! It would be hard to pick a favorite - if you find one, pick it up - you'll be glad.

Question: If they made a Monty Python and the Holy Grail pinball, would it be anyone's "grail" pin?

Just have him get a Jetsons. Astro comes with it.

Well, KaPow could have directed the theme.. but honestly, the game is a blast to play IMO.

When I bought FD it was just another pin in the back of my pickup truck to me, I remembered playing it in arcades and thought it would only be decent or so-so in the house, being that it wasn't even a single player like the EMs I had bought a lot of. Never dreamed it would be my all time fave. One can have a grail pin but you probably haven't played it that much in the past or even at all, so you're not really sure it's going to be a keeper for a loooong time. I've never played Joker Poker but it gets bragged up a lot and it looks like a great layout so I'm just going by that, for all I know if I had one it wouldn't knock my socks off. I learned that maybe it's better to discover that any ol' game you just bought is the grail pin.

Since I brought home my Fast Draw in February (after a 10 hour drive), it gets played twice as much as my other 5 pins and I play all of them a lot. The gameplay is just simply fantastic.

It can be brutal IMO but also brutally addictive.

My grail pins that I got. Not a particularly desirable title but I wanted them for sentimental reasons.

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This is SO hard for me to answer. I used to say "Atlantis" but as I've been considering having to sell my entire collection lately (I lost my workshop and just don't have a good alternative on the horizon) I find that every game in my collection is one I love:

Atlantis
Quick Draw
Melody
Bank-A-Ball
King Pin
Lucky Hand

And even the Big Hit and Jacks Open I'm finishing up to sell will be hard to part with.

Technically it would be everybody's Grail pin.

Mine would have to be #abracadabra ... Every time I go to Museum of pinball in Banning,Ca ... I always spend a great deal of time playing various EM’s there... one day I’ll get mine.

Just acquired my first EM Bronco. I’m slowly shopping it right now.

goldenboy232 - Sorry to hear you lost your workshop. Was that due to all this virus madness? I've enjoyed reading about you restoring your machines and asking questions in the forum.

frenchmarky - All that is true - one man's trash is another man's treasure, and thank goodness, or we'd all be after the same machine! I find that I get attached to machines in proportion to the amount of time I've spent restoring them. By the time I decide to get a machine, I'm pretty familiar with the pf layout, played it virtually, read what others think of it, and finally pull the trigger. By the time I spend weeks or months restoring it, I've usually fallen in love with one aspect of it or another...I'm full of biased opinions.

I'm willing to trade my wife for a Canada Dry. Doesn't have to be working as she doesn't either

Square Head. A guy on my floor at school in 1976 had it in his dorm room, and I've always wanted that game.
Still looking.

Captain Fanastic would be nice, too.

Would you be willing to add a little cash on your end?

Oh, never mind. I don't own a Canada Dry and really don't have the space for a wife

I have 2 Canada Dry and I don't need a second wife, What do I do ?

Can send pics

If she's over 40, you don't really need to bother. Or let's say I already get the picture.