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Re: The Shadow...any good & what is it worth??
« on: April 22, 2011, 02:33:31 PM »
Pricing seems to be around the $2K mark, a little more for really nice ones, but with the market flat maybe $2K is tops for the moment. If the ebay one is within collection distance an offer at $2K might be worth a try, best to look first of course. Might be able to negotiate something on the spot, you never know.

As for what's it like - a really fine playing game. But there is of course a BUT, and it's a big one. Pinball is as much about aesthetics as it is about gameplay (otherwise we could have been rid of the back box by 1980) - while you don't play the translite, it is almost too ugly for words - Baldwin looks like he's just sucked a lemon or is taking one for the team, I don't know. If that was the look they were going for, then what was in their minds is anyone's guess.

Playfield however is quite nice, an art deco sort of look. A good package and quite hard to master apparently (I've only ever played on site so never got deep enough to know).
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”