...What do you keep?
I was thinking about this last night.
While I'm sure this thread has been done before, it got me to thinking what of my current collection would make the cut.
Here are mine;
1) Starship Troopers
2) Batman Forever
3) Johnny Mnemonic
4) Revenge From Mars
5) Judge Dredd.
What would be your 20% keepers?
I would end up with a fifth of a BSD 
AFM and Tron
10th pin in collection is a hyperpin on steroids of course.
First I'd have to buy about 20 more games, then cutting it down to 20% wouldn't be quite as difficult.
A consider this often and the truth is the one I'd cut seems to change week by week. I guess when that day comes it will be pretty much a spin of the wheel, whichever is on my Sh-list that particular week.
Assuming you have owned each of them long enough to enjoy them, I would just let the market decide. Offer them all for sale and stop selling when enough are gone.
Hmm, lemme think. Current collection is:
AFM, BK2K, BSD, EBD, FP, Hyperball, JP, JD, MM, MB, NGG, RS, SM, ST, STTNG, Tron, TZ and 20% would be three games.
Well the MM was the one pin I kept when I cut down from 20 some in 2001 to just one, so it would still stay.
Twilight Zone is a definite keeper, so it's #2.
The third one would be hard. The wife's favorite is Monster Bash so it would probably get the spot but my third favorite is a close race between BK2K, BSD and Tron.
MY gut instinct going from 10 to 2 would be keep IM and LoTR...
The Third would be Star Trek, then Paragon, then WPT. WPT is my newest game so I would play the heck out of it prior to selling, but that is my gut feeling right now.
The rest of my games are VERY nice to have, but if I had to downsize say my Firepower 2 would be leaving much sooner than my WPT, even if both are fun when I play them.
CFTBL My wife would kill me if I sold that one.
Quoted from tamoore:What would be your 20% keepers?
What 80% of my collection are you after, tamoore? 
Quoted from tamoore:...What do you keep?
I was thinking about this last night.
While I'm sure this thread has been done before, it got me to thinking what of my current collection would make the cut.
Here are mine;
1) Starship Troopers
2) Batman Forever
3) Johnny Mnemonic
4) Revenge From Mars
5) Judge Dredd.
What would be your 20% keepers?
That leaves me with less than one whole machine!
But if I get to keep one it would be STTNG.......but you already knew that.
If I got to keep half of my collection it would be STTNG & JM.
Good choices on your keepers BTW.....I agree.
I am pretty full at three. Can't imagine having fewer than that. Now I look at a machine I want and have to decide if it is worthy of replacing any of the games I have. Whatever I do find will have to beat out Black Knight. It is #3 right now.
Quoted from Pafasa:Now I look at a machine I want and have to decide if it is worthy of replacing any of the games I have.
Start replacing furniture.
Since only 4 of the 8 listed are 'mine' at my house, I guess that means that I get to keep 1. I always said that I'd never get rid of my JP, but for as little money as I've got in my Spiderman, I'd probably have to keep it since I'd never be able to buy it back at the going rate.
My mom has said before that out of her TAF, Flintstones, and PM, that the last one to leave would be Pinball Magic.
Quoted from o-din:Start replacing furniture.
I have a big ass pool table that is taking up WAY too much space. Although right now it is holding my JM playfield.
Part with:
1. Sky Jump
2. Revenge from Mars
3. Sopranos (but still have to become the boss)
4. White Water
5. Road Show
6. Safe Cracker
7. Twilight Zone
8. Attack from Mars
9. Cirqus Voltaire
10. Lord of the Rings
11. Monster Bash
Keep:
1. Medieval Madness
2. Cactus Canyon Continued
3. Big Bang Bar
After the first three, it would be very hard to let anything go. I've had most of my collection for quite a while and except for the least favorite three, it is comprised of my holy grail dream games.
Quoted from hlaj78:Part with:
1. Sky Jump
2. Revenge From Mars
3. Sopranos (but still have to become the boss)
4. White Water
5. Road Show
6. Safe Cracker
7. Twilight Zone
8. Attack from Mars
9. Cirqus Voltaire
10. Lord of the Rings
11. Monster Bash
Keep:
1. Medieval Madness
2. Cactus Canyon Continued
3. Big Bang Bar
After the first three, it would be very hard to let anything go. I've had most of my collection for quite a while and except for the least favorite three, it is comprised of my holy grail dream games.
What if the three you keep you can never sell or trade.....would that change your choices?
keep afm and totan , xmen will go to my grandson and woz to my grand daughter some day so don't have to consider those two.
Quoted from Astropin:What if the three you keep you can never sell or trade.....would that change your choices?
Good question. I still think that I would keep MM and CCC because they are the most fun and still are challenging to get through the whole game. CC would not have been on the list, but due to Eric's fantastic new code, there are a lot more things to do in the game. I would probably take BBB off the list even though it would be damn near impossible to replace. It is a lot of fun and wild when you get to the end, but it's not that challenging. Either Lord of the Rings or Monster Bash would replace it. Value of the games is not a consideration.
Jim Morrison said it:
"Five to one, baby, one in five. No one here gets out alive."
I agree: death before an 80% reduction!
But, I'll still play since I just happen to have five, which reduces to exactly one. I would have to keep my ST:TNG both because it's such a fun and challenging game and because of the bond I established with it during the year it took to bring it back from the brink into perfect playing condition.
Your list is 25%... 5 of 20 is 25%.
Here's the 4.5 machines I would keep.
High Speed
Space Shuttle
Fireball
Tron
The playfield out of my Elektra
Quoted from o-din:Start replacing furniture.
I barely have enough furniture to seat everyone now. Me, Wife, 6 kids and 2 dogs. Maybe I can get rid of a few kids? 
Keep:
Indiana Jones (Wms)
Tron LE
Spider-Man
Big Bang Bar
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Medieval Madness
Theatre of Magic
X-Men (LE)
Jurassic Park
Monster Bash
Lord of the Rings
Simpsons Pinball Party
Quoted from Pafasa:I barely have enough furniture to seat everyone now. Me, Wife, 6 kids and 2 dogs. Maybe I can get rid of a few kids?
Teach them to stand. 
Quoted from o-din:Teach them to stand.
* laughing *
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