what was the first pinball you owned

[FreePlay]

Hit The Deck - my brother and I went halves and got it for a christmas present. My parents weren't keen at first as said there was no room. They knew we were keen when we dug out about 2 foot of earth under the house to make room for it. It never went there though, was in the laundry for a while and then in our bedroom

Driving past Pinball Mania the other day and was shocked as they have one in their window - recognised the backglass straight away

[spacejam0]

Just came across this old thread and really enjoyed reading through it some great stories in there worth a look if you haven't seen it (one member used cooking oil to try to give his playfield a nice shine).
My first machine solar city a $1600 dollar eBay purchase 6 or 7 years back that started or at least rekindled an obsession.....wish I never sold that game and not sure why I did but I made a $250 profit from it so not all bad.

[lanternau]

Bally Camelot...Still love the old girl . gets a run every other day.

[PinPal]

Bally Strikes and Spares, bought it for $700.00 bucks back in 1985.
Sold it 4 . years later for a Williams Firepower.

Pinpal......

[rustalan]

Atari Superman when it was almost new from a friend that worked at leisure and Allied $200 

[dealers choice]

Not sure if I've mentioned it before, my first machine was a Williams dealers choice. Only regret never getting it going before I sold it.

[Wiked]

The first one I bought myself was in 1988 when I was 18 and it was the Hankin FJ as I played it in the early 80's at the squash courts in Ballina.

I gave it away when I moved from Sydney to the Gold Coast in October 2002. Compared to the 90's Williams/Bally's that I had I thought it wasn't worth playing every again etc.

There was one my Dad bought for me when I was 12 but I cannot remember what I was. I think I remember it had the W logo on it and it was a single player EM. One day I will look up what one it was. I thought maybe a western or card theme.

[4_amusement_only]

Bally's Black Rose - found it in the paper version of the Trading Post - caught the train down to Montrose and had the bloke deliver for me 23/12/05 - 2.3k. Hardly ever let me down either

[v8racefan]

+ 1 Bally 92 Black Rose, great game still have it, can't see it leaving my collection any time soon.

[spook]

A great thread .... first time I've seen it. Some terrific first pins in the mix. My first was a Williams Flash. Still have it and I don't think I'll be letting it go.

[The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan]

Gottlieb 71 Playball

[ralph67]

That's a hard one , I owned this machine when i was 17 , Bought it from a work friend who's Dad was a operator , The game died not long after and i sold it for $20 
 Cant remember the exact name now , all i know was it was a 4 player Williams Em , With a Card Game theme
If i knew then what i know now , Id have it working aaaaah  such is life

[Goingpinsane]

My first was a popeye saves the earth. Total basket case. It kinda half worked for a couple of days and died. Really wanted to fix it but a mate said part it. Found another popeye that wasn't working and used them both to make one. So my first two machines were a popeye!

[Crashramp]

Mine was a Data East Starwars. It didn't work and was hacked to death but the playfield was nice under all the grot once it was cleaned up. The problems with that machine was how I found this forum, made some good friends because of it too so not all bad in the end after all.

[pinsanity]

Williams Indiana Jones in the mid 1990's for $600 from an old operator who was scaling down his route.