Never in a million years when i was a kid would i have believed that i would one day own a pinball... (let alone twenty, that i had at one stage) 
I used to liken them to poker machines, that they would be illegal to own    Glad i was wrong about that 

Not long after i did get my first machine when i was 20 (Stern Stingray which i still have to this day, paid $300 for it) i found out that they were out there to be had, sitting in peoples garages/sheds unloved and neglected.