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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Discussion => Your Collection => Topic started by: ddstoys on July 22, 2014, 09:08:19 AM
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Hey Guys how do we all decide what stays and what goes?
My shed had been to the "I can't fit one more thing in here" half a dozen time but with enough rearranging I can fit stuff in. This time my dartboard has been moved down the bar end of the shed because its always un useable because I've always got a project going on in front of it.
Problem is I've had to remove one of my Backglass and Playfield sets :(
How do others decide?????
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Most of the games i've sold over the last couple of years have been games i bought on a whim, rather than games i really wanted. Games that i either didnt play much back in the day, or that i hadn't even seen or played before i bought them.
All were sold because i needed quick $$ otherwise i would've kept them.. plus it it gives me extra room for a couple of others i have my eye on *%*
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I sold a game once, still regret it
Nothing goes, they all stay
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No such thing as a keeper here. They are only games, I like to flip them often and enjoy different titles.
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The luxury of having a building to set up my collection has allowed me to extend it.
My collection consists of ex routed games from Dad's Operating days - Sky Jump, Spirit of 76, KISS and Paragon. These are the cornerstones. Other games I've been chasing are games I remembered on operation - Smart Set, Honey, Captain Fantastic, Fireball, Nip It and Winner. I'm keeping CP, Fireball, Nip It and Winner as they are fantastic machines.
My favorite players are the Paragon (above), Fathom (took 10 years to locate), Medusa, Flash Gordon, Embryon, Vector, Viking, Haunted House, Spirit, Black Hole, Flight 2000, Freefall and CV..
Nothing has really gone over the year, as I keep building the collection up, and I have a place to house them. They just need to be restored !!
I'm still chasing "Rocket Ship" (but I bevel that is now sorted), "Olympic Hockey", "Zodiac" and possibly "Scared Stiff".
I could cull 5-6 if I had to, but I would never get rid of the "cornerstone" games - Sky Jump, Spirit of 76, KISS and Paragon
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I move games on that don't get played any more or that I bought on a whim .
The next game I am thinking of selling gets moved to the 'sell spot' and usually is out the door a couple of months after .
I also only have room for 5 pinballs in my lineup and am maxed out on my budget so will be selling some soon (one project going next week).
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I have limited space that always seems to be full. Not as easy to sell a machine now as they are all machines that I want to hold onto whereas in the early days I was just buying anything reasonably priced that I thought may be a good machine.
Now though I look at machines that don't get played, especially when I have a few friends around. The ones that sit idle make their way to the top of the list of machines to sell when the time comes. There have been some machines on that list that I wish I didn't sell but at the time they didn't get played and were just taking up room and if they were still here today, it would be the same.
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No such thing as a keeper here. They are only games, I like to flip them often and enjoy different titles.
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Yes that's something I've learnt over time variety is the spice if life :-)
Peter
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The first time I sell would be the last, in other words the lot. Not quite there yet. My only suggestion is to build another shed.
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Whatever I can negotiate with the family to not complain too much about me selling.. ^&^
Though I do have my personal favorites I will not even consider (at least for now) selling..
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Whatever gets least play would be top on my "to sell" list. Only having room for a few machines I only keep the ones that get used.
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I have sold games that I like the artwork but not the gameplay
I have also sold games that I liked the gameplay but they were a bit ugly (either worn out or not the best art) - these are the ones that I often look to get another one again
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I had a Super Mario Brothers a long time ago. Clocked it once and got haft way to clocking it twice on one game. It was time to move it on after that.
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had no room in my shed for anything else so sold the biggest thing that was in there , ready for something new to add to my bram stokers dracula,
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As far as inside the house is concerned, I'm almost full (plenty more room really but the wife says enough) I have a little more room in the garage before a car would have to move outside but I'm not keen on that so I'm close to the point where I'm thinking about if I'd sell or store a game. I have plenty of room to store machines away from home but I'd never turn them on unless they lived at home with me.
I'm not much of a spontaneous buyer either so I tend to target a game that I really want for a while before buying it which possibly makes it emotionally a little harder to part with later on. I also get a lot of satisfaction from doing games up so that also makes them feel a bit more personal and also harder to give up so generally I think I'll probably keep collecting and rotating my games around from time to time. I think it's nice to know that if I had a pinball meet night or a weekend planned then I could bring a heap more games home then I'd normally have here for others to enjoy also.
I think it's going to be very hard for me to put a game I've restored away in storage but at some stage I know if I keep working on them then eventually some of my favourites will have to be put away.
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If I and my friends aren't playing it then it goes. Only got one like this in my collection atm.
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I just can't part with them
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No such thing as a keeper, they are just toys.
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All the ones that have gone should have stayed! Except World Cup soccer. Glad to see that one gone.
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All the ones that have gone should have stayed! Except World Cup soccer. Glad to see that one gone.
i agree substituting WCS for T2
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Rule 1. Keep everything.
Rule 2. Only sell if a friend or a fellow member wants that machine badly & you want to share the love.
Rule 3. Buy a replacement when u can for the one you Sold
Rule 4. Buy more machines when u can so u can share the pinballs with as many people as possible.
Rule 5. Always refer to Rule 1 as much as possible.
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Just make up a series of arbitrary rules that appear impressive with a cursory observation, but when placed under scrutiny have no basis in reality.
No such thing as a keeper, they are just toys.
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Spot on.
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Keep the ones with the great artwork! You will never tire of that.
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Easy - let an outsider do it.
Im happy to come down and dictate what you can keep and what im taking out for your own benefit
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Easy - let an outsider do it.
Im happy to come down and dictate what you can keep and what im taking out for your own benefit
^^^ great idea. Lets see how many pm you. *.*
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Space also an issue for me since moving to Melbourne and have to sell as well.
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I recently sold my Tron Pro. One of the games I still played the most in the collection and now an all time favourite pinball. I thought that what I was doing was insane.
My reasons for selling? Running out of space. Newer pins getting more expensive and I was able to afford another top rated game, The Walking Dead Pro. A new game arrives and it is the one that gets played the most. Will now try and rotate games instead of hoarding....and if I ever want to buy it again, they eventually come up for sale.
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The Flash that i sold i bit over a year ago is an example of a game i bought on a whim, that i only ever played once back in the day. I DID like the game but my collecting has evolved into collecting games that i played A LOT back in the day and enjoyed so its all based on nostalgia for me.
Last June i picked up another Flash for a 'fixer upper' for $230, bargain of the century!! It was in pretty decent shape too, but as the goal soon as i found the game was to get it running, tidy it up and sell it so it wasn't kept long. I have two more project Flash's in storage, so one of those may end up in the collection *%*
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I keep adding to the collection, but getting nowhere restoring them. I recently added a Black Knight, Champion Pub and Banzai Run. Still looking for Super Score, Zodiac, Rocket Ship, Olympic Hockey - But I'm not actively looking as in time they might find me !
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Easy for me. I bought Top Card when I was about 14 with money I made from painting houses with my dad. It was the first and I think they will probably bury me in it.
Everything else is expendable...except maybe if I find a really good Firepower, or a Close Encounters or the original Spiderman, or...