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Re: The adventure of your first pinball purchase.
« on: May 25, 2011, 08:39:57 PM »
Great story swinks (well not the $ side of it) but a valuable lesson for other members on the pitfalls of importing single games.

My first pin story is nothing like that for interest. I was playing around with pinmame ten years ago, and one day it occurred to me how much I had loved pinball back in the day, and in particular Time Warp which two mates and I would skip uni to play.

The internet was nothing like the resource it is today, so it took a year to find one - and I kid you not - within two weeks I had five to choose from from five different states!

The easiest to check out was one in Brisbane at a dealer near where my brother was living. He called me from the venue with a thumps up on its cosmetic condition, and played it for an hour with no issues. Shipped it was $1900 to my door, so while at the top end for pricing then, not too bad as it turned up and was (and is) in really nice condition.

.. .. .. then it started breeding.. .. ..  :D

“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.”