<..>how,s that....taking those e.m pinballs to the tip ,the operators probably made plenty of cash off them,& then updated to newer pinballs ,i remember in the early 1980,s they were selling electromehanical gottlieb pinballs in the newspaper classifieds for $120 -$150 in working condition ,I was 13 yea ^&^rs old ,& begged my parents but they said no...

could not even give them away in the old days. In fact, Dad "gave" them away at school fetes and charities. He once asked me to pick out my "best buddies" and he gave them an EM each. Friend of mine STILL has the GTB "Surfer". Seriously - system ones were thrown away - no one wanted them.