If we are talking EMs as this is in the EM hangout, I've had quite a few and ended up with most of them.

The last true EM grail for me was Williams Beat The Clock, and I scored a nice example less than a year ago. Not much left to wish for after that.

That would be cool. There was a list of what to get if I could find them in decent shape and that was one of them, but at the end of the day, I only have room for so many, and so many have come and gone and now I am down to only good ones that still get played a lot.

There was a nice EM Black Jack at the local auction a couple of years ago, and it went for decent money, but not excessive considering the rarity. I played it, but that in itself didn't make me want to bid on it. There also seem to be more than 170 EM Mata Haris out there as they come up for sale pretty often, and I myself have seen several examples over the last few years. Too many to be that rare.

I remember when Fireball and Joker Poker EM were my grail electro mechanicals. Seems like ages ago and glad my tastes have improved since then. But also glad I got it out of my system and had a chance to own nice examples of both and then move on.

None at all.

Being it had been decades since I had played the EMs I played as a kid when I started buying machines, I took the easy road and went after games I remember liking when I was younger of which Fireball and Joker Poker EM were two.

So many better games that I had not played have made their way here since those two hit the highway years ago. I don't need reminders of my youth now, and none of the EMs I currently own do I remember playing with the exception of perhaps Pit Stop. And that would be a very fuzzy memory.

Out with the old-

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In with the keeper-

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Which one?

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Sorry, they both went out the back door several years ago.

As I mentioned, they only stay if they get played regularly or aren't taking up otherwise valuable space.

I had a SS lined up when I sold the EM, and a nice one, but even that didn't last very long. Easy game to get played out on pretty fast. And although it certainly wasn't his worst, I didn't really care much for the artwork after a while.

It's all relative, you start bringing in more stylish games to your liking, and some of the others just start looking not so good and you just want them gone.

All I can say is have fun with it, and if you ever get tired of looking at it or playing it, there will always be someone else out there looking for something as rare.

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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Do you need to add a ball?

Only grail I am yet to own.

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

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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.

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

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

I can believe that.

I live in the land where women move to to age fast, it seems. I learned long ago you gotta get them when they first arrive, or import them yourself.

I do apologize, but I can only imagine some of the things they have said about me.

Carry on...