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Offline The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan

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Seeing Joker Poker sell for over $2400 not working, got me thinking.  Some of these titles are dirt cheap in the US and Europe, so what would you bring in if you could?  Im not talking Kiss or Playboy or any of those as they are expensive no matter where you buy them. 

I am taking titles that are cheap OS but would fetch decent coin here...I am not thinking of doing this by the way but thought it would be interesting to see what people think.

I will start the list off:

Joker Poker
Strikes & Spares
Evil Knevil
Black Knight
Gorgar
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Offline Retropin

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Capt fant
Joker poker
 jacks Open
Paragon
Centaur
Xenon
EBD
Fathom
King Of Diamonds
Surfer


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I spent a lot of time researching this, and that's how I developed my list - "hand picking" and highly sought after ;

KISS
Playboy
Fathom
Star Trek
Centaur
Xenon
Eight Ball Deluxe
Viking
Eight Ball
Medusa
Paragon
Hot Doggin
Joker Poker
Haunted House
Spirit
Rocky
Star Race
Circus
Black Knight
Solar Fire
Pharoah
Flight 2000
Freefall
Split Second
Lightning

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Wizard
Nip It
Captain Fantastic
Knock Out
Kickoff
Old Chicago
Klondike
Surfer
Spirit of 76
El Dorado
Winner
Zodiac
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Offline ajlaird

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Not much to add, except to say that Eight Ball Deluxe certainly fetches good money here in Australia.

Offline vinito

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I think all games look to sell in AUS for nearly twice what they would sell for here in the US.
But the games KISS, Eight Ball Deluxe, Haunted House and Captain Fantastic seem to fetch an inordinate amount of coin here for what they are, i.e. technology, features, etc. Similar games from the same era sell for half of those titles. So for pure investment purposes, those titles would have a smaller margin since they cost quite a bit more here than they really ought to. My opinion.
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Offline Ric

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I second Nino's list

would also add Embryon, Vector, Flash Gordon, Volcano, Orbitor, Pharoh

Some more obscure titles, but great art and play

Offline Extra Ball

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reminds me of a US ebay auction not so long ago for 3 Joker Pokers complete, and a spare cab/backglass. The lot sold for about 1k USD.