Poolesville, MD
Mine is heading to a new home in a couple weeks - but it's a great game! The final with Germany is always an adrenaline rush!
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Quoted from DEWSHO:As others have said, this was one of my favorites in the 90's. I seem to remember the goalie traveling farther to the left than mine does. I have a very hard time hitting the Penalty Shot as it seems the goalie is not far enough left. I played WCS in a tournament in March and had no problem hitting the Penalty Shot so I'm pretty sure something is up. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for quality of video.
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Yep he's not moving far enough to the left .. just compared it with mine. It's not a huge distance off, and honestly, I'd probably prefer mine be more like yours to make it more challenging.
Funny thing on mine with the Penalty Shot - the goalie moves to the left, stops for about 1/2 second, then moves over a little bit more. It's the only time this happens (the stop then move a bit more).
Quoted from DEWSHO:I was so geeked when I found pinside and saw that estimate! Oh well, still easily worth double that in my book.
Worth more than double if it's in decent condition.
Quoted from Whysnow:It already surpassed flavor of the month a few months back it appears. It went up for a short bit and then dropped back down the past few months. There have been a few that have sat unsold on pinside for quite a while and they were advertised/sold at prices lower then they were selling for a few months ago.
Fun game but with almost 9000 made it is still readily available and the theme kills it for some. Luckily, I think WCS falls into the category of game that has not been impacted too much by the past years trend. It does actually seem that things are starting to settle down on many of the 'b' listers. This is great from my point of view because 'b' and 'c' listers are my wheelhouse
I actually think the interest is going back up again - at least it seems that way in just the last few weeks with people wanting one, and there aren't many/any readily available right now. Yeah I knew about the 9000 made and that honestly shocked me quite a bit, as you don't see them come up for sale too often, and don't see them out in the wild. Perhaps a lot went overseas? But I do see this pin creeping up more towards the $3k mark if things keep on the same trajectory. I think it's just as fun as NGG and NGG shot up recently, although they now seem to be in the same predicament (coming back down a bit and harder to sell for some reason).
Quoted from Whysnow:Neither NGG nor WCS has shot up recently... Enough with the silly cheerleading!!!
Heck, there has been a decent NGG for sale on here for a while and the price seems to drop a hundred every week and still not sell (last I saw it was down to 2700 for a game that would have easily sold for 3k this time last year)
WCS can be found on ebay any day of the week for ~3 and it IS NOT SELLING. WCS can be found with minimal effort for 2300 for a NICE example (here you go >> http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-cv-wcs-and-diner-in-nw-suburbs-of-chicago) and it sat for 1 month.
1800 for fully functioning (http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/very-nice-wcs-for-sale-in-sw-ohio-1900)
AND these are pinside prices!
Sorry, my definition of recently is more like in the past 12-24 months in terms of life of the pin. I wasn't talking like in the last 8 weeks. I think just about every pin value has dropped recently in the past few months. I still say games like WCS and NGG, time proven classics that consistently top the value/fun charts, stand the most chance of still increasing in value. It wouldn't surprise me to see NGG become a $4k game in the next 1-2 years, and WCS near $3k.
And as a disclaimer, this isn't cheerleading - I want a NGG and have never had one, and I recently sold my WCS. I have no vested interest in seeing any of these machines go up.
Quoted from ryan1234:I love WCS..... but I have lost to Germany enough times I am starting to feel Polish.
Hmmm... I'm not a pro by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd say I lose to Germany maybe 1 out of 20 times, maybe even less. The key is to just keep plunging the ball - when I first got the game I would forget about the ball in the plunger and would be about 50/50. But now you just keep plunging all the time and it's pretty easy to win since the plunged ball goes to the flipper.
Quoted from ryan1234:I have my "final match difficulty" set to "Hard" for the exact reason you described.
I was trying to be funny......another fail for me.
Excellent point! *goes to set difficulty to Hard*
3 years later
1 left on Ebay, 25 sold :
ebay.com link: Bally World Cup Soccer 94 Pinball Replacement Soccer Ball New
1 year later
Quoted from enkiktd:Can someone tell me what goes in this hole right behind this pop bumper? I don’t seem to have any pictures that show it.
Mine has a post there and a rubber ring around both that post and the one right next to it that is clear on yours. Mine doesn't have the clear plastic, it has another post.
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