Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: USSEnterprise on February 28, 2007, 05:47:52 pm
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I have found both machines relatively cheap (Sub $250 each). Both are in great cosmetic shape, but don't work. Now I've dealt with EM pins before, but never a video. Especially considering that the Williams "Paddle Ball" is pre processors, just basic logic, how difficult would it be to repair? How bad are late 70's CC EMs to repair?
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You'll get more play on the pinball, though it depends if you are a collector, or a gamer :)
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Plus, if the playfield and glass are in decent shape, that's an amazing price on that pin!
If you go the pong route, let me know so I can grab it! ;D
I currently only have one pin, an old GL sing-along, and would love to add another :)
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A non-working Pong clone is not worth anywhere NEAR $250. Working ones go for under $200. Get the pinball machine. I have owned a few pong clones. They usually look great sitting in your living room (they are usually in this pornographically mint condition due to the fact that the early 70s cabinets were built a lot better than later cabinets and they usually only got a few years worth of use), but you just aren't going to play it.
You see the thing about Pong clones is that they all require at least 2 players, and finding two people who want to play Pong, at the SAME TIME is going to happen so seldomly that you will be lucky to get in 10 games a year on the thing.
I sold a minty working 4-player pong clone to one of the posters here a while back, and I don't even think I charged him $250. It was $100 or $200, I honestly can't remember anymore.
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Nevermind probably on both. Found a working original Ms. Pac-Man cocktail for for very little money compared to what I see them on eBay for.