Metallica (Premium)
Stern, 2013
Scared Stiff
Bally, 1996And no this doesn't mean I'm planning to get rid of anything.
I had an interesting offer and am just pondering. I have a super clean scared stiff. I like it. A lot.
Was offered a nib met premium.
Or I could take my Afm proceeds and keep scared stiff and buy a premium.
It's funny I happen to love the bw machines. I love the themes and I love working on them. But something to be said for playing the sterns. My tron gets more play then anything in my stable.
Pretty even swap in my view. I think it depends really on the condition of your SS. The MetLE will be stunning and has color changing LED's tied to the software and some of the nicest art Stern has ever done (only XMen LE's come close to it from Stern). MetLE is a faster game than SS with less stop and go in my view, big pluses.
As others have said though, SS is getting to be a hard title to find though and has been on the rise in price somewhat recently. If you get rid of it you may struggle to find another to replace it should you decide to change your mind.
Having played both, I would definitely keep the SS.
Quoted from Pinmeister:Scared Stiff getting hard
I'd do that in a heartbeat only because I don't love SS as much as most and I really enjoy playing the Metallica Premium.
Tough call. On one hand you've got an old machine based on an old horror host, and on the other hand you've got a new machine based on old rock stars that aren't getting any younger. I'd call it a tossup.
Lol nope typo was supposed to type taf not afm.
Afm for me could be 500 more the ss and I would get.
I do like ss but at ukpp 2013 there was an acdc prem met prem and ss all were fun but I enjoyed Metallica due to it being simple fun and funny
Because I liked the machine I got me a pro translite to frame
Quoted from j69:Wow, in the UK SS is like £2k, Met Premium is £6k!
I was shocked like I could sell ij4 and diner and get a nib Metallica premium
I like SS a lot, it's a fun pin. But it's definitely on the easy side. MET is going to be way more challenging and will have that "just one more game" pull to it. I didn't find that SS had that one more game pull.
From a value standpoint, if they are offering a straight trade, that's a pretty damn good offer.
SS is a Great Game,MetallicA Prem/LE is going to be one of the great games when code is finish!
Play wise I prefer Metallica. Long Term Value I would go with SS.
After seeing how CCC turned out, I'm leery of getting rid of any of my old B/W pins. I know SS is easy, but what if someone does a redo on the code sometime? That could make SS really awesome. But then again, it may never happen. As it is, SS is an easy game compared to many, but it is just great fun IMO. The whole art and sound package is just awesome as well, but MET Premium is no slouch in that department either with DD's art work. I'm sure the code on MET will turn out great, and it should provide quite a challenge and have lots of longevity in any collection.
SS is a favorite with family and friends when they visit me. They may revolt if I ever sell it, so I keep it around.Tough choice.
I'd go with keep the SS, but I could be swayed the other way with enough thought.
I like both games but to help answer your question, SS is getting hard to find and makes a great "collectors" game to have in a collection. I would keep the SS and pick up a Metallica in the future which is being mass produced as we speak. Wont be hard to pick it up later on like a SS will be.
That would be my game plan.
Quoted from John_I:SS has collector value. Metallica is a much better game all around. Depends on what type of collector you are. You want a show car or super nice daily driver?
I think this is a very fair assessment. Put a stock SS next to a stock Met LE/Premium and the difference between the two would be readily apparent. Met looks like it is going to (eventually) have much deeper rules, it already has faster paced gameplay with better flow and more shots.
SS is a collectors item game. Not many nice examples of this 17 year old classic around. It also has really good humor to go with the nice boobs (and is a fun game to mod out with the horror theme). 
Tough call, but if it were me I'd go with Met LE/Premium. As others have said the value difference in the game is in Met's favor as well.
bag SS and get Met/prem
Some good points above, if you want a piece for your collection keep the SS, if you are buying pinball machines to play and for fun value, get the Metallica.
I have been down the road of buying to have the collector machines, and found myself playing the collector pieces less and less every day. Buy games for fun factor IMO
I have SS and Metallica and I would say keep SS. Metallica is an awesome game, but as others have said, it will be readily available for years to come. SS is getting hard to find. Both games have a very high fun factor, but Metallica isn't even proven yet. I'll bet that if you had posted this same question shortly after Transformers or Avengers came out, with regard to trading for those games, you would have had a bunch of people telling to you to dump SS for those too. Wouldn't you feel like you made a bad trade today? I'd hold off on this one, imho.
Brian
Quoted from bigdaddy07:Totally disagree, at least using posts in this thread as the guide. What I counted:
15 for SS
12 for MET
The rest neutral or no firm opinion. I'm seeing just the opposite.
Post the poll. MET would have a big lead. 
If I had unlimited money and space, I would still have at least 90% of the games I have gotten rid of - including Scared Stiff. When I answer questions in threads like this it is with the assumption that the OP is in the same position I have found myself in many times; limited by space and/or budget.
If you have the money and space, keep the SS and buy an NIB METP too!
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