Quoted from vid1900:Collectors are still finding heavily routed games in the backrooms of Skill-crane and Juke operators.A few months ago James dragged some REALLY worn TAF, AFM and junkyard machines from a movie theater that had been boarded up for probably a decade.Of course on Pinside, we see all these fully restored games and it becomes the norm, but there are still quite a few routed games out there.
All you have to do is get the "pinball container for sale" pictures from Europe to know that Vid is correct. MM in particular gets very bad PF wear, esp around the lock inserts and the "king" inserts.
Always interesting that a lot of new guys jump on the "BW is best" bandwagon. Because everything you read on the Internet is true. (Cough cough...)
Which is a shame, because they're depriving themselves of some top machines.
All machines wear. All machines break.
I like almost all of the brands. The only machines I don't like are 90s Gottliebs because the software is awful.
My DE/Sega/Stern machines have proven very reliable, some of them I've owned for well over 10 years now.
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