why not... let's dream a bit... you wake up Sunday morning to find out you've won the 6/49. So what would you do? Hobby-wise?


One of the things I would do is show up at Allentown with a few semis... fill'em up, boys...

I will start looking for a new house and have a full equip workshop and enough place to store a lot of games so I can restore between trip around the world

Pffft !  You guys are thinking way too small....

With $43M  I would ...

1- Buy the 4 houses next to mine
2- Knock 'em down and build 200,000 sq/ft  Arcade/Museum/warehouse/Workshop
   (...yah, I know, I'd probably need to get new zoning bylaws approved... )
3- Build an underground tunnel so that I could walk from my house to the "Arcadium"
4- Buy every single solid state pin ever made  (...I'm not so much into EMs... )
5- Get the top 100 vids of all time
6- Throw-in some pool tables, driving games and generous amounts of 62" Plasma screens.

Have MAACA parties every week-end...

(...oh, and I'd tell the Execs at Nortel to kiss my a-- as a gleefully use their stock as toilet paper... )



Steph

I would pay off my current debt load of 42.8 million dollars and put the balance in the bank. .  Seriously?  Although I know I'd have a heck of a lot of fun with my hobby, I would first and foremost figure out what I want for me and my immediate family +future consideration and then I would "share the wealth" with family and friends.  It sounds corny, but a lot of people would be happy. Maybe not all millionaires, but happy?  Yep.

Buy a Global 5000 and then declare personal bankruptcy trying to fill the tanks. It would make a good pin hauler though.



or rent Paul Allen's boat by the hour. That should last me for a half a day.

I would have to choose between Grand Cayman, Nassau, St-Thomas... Decisions, decisions. And of course I would have to consult you guys to know where would you accept to go to repair my machines...since I'm a poor technician.

I'd have to hire a few of you guys to be my live-in repair guys, that's for sure  

What I'm going to do when I win, is go to Toronto to collect it, give Machine Slave's money doubled over
in cash that he lost, smash the two games and fly to Calgary, no reason, we've just always wanted to go to
Calgary.....

Once returned I would Pay for Ethous's basement/house renovations. no joke!

Then spend a few weeks working on a price with Regent execs to buy the business. Once they put the proposal together, I'd politely decline and tell them that I've always really wanted to be a female, and need the funds to do so, instead of getting an operation, obviously, I'd go snowboarding.

Last, but not least, I'd buy everyone a brand new 19" vid monitor even if they thought I was a jerk, I'd put 1 new 19" monitor in every home arcade here.

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Once returned I would Pay for Ethous's basement/house renovations. no joke!

Screw that... I would just get him a new house...

As for Calgary... I would fly there too... take a picture of Machine Slave's ''Buddy'', then find a couple of big guys with a mean streak and baseball bats, shove the pic in their face with a few bills and say ''sick'em, boys''... then I would get Brock a new pin.

Ok, ok... seriously...

- quit my job, and take the time to make myself healthy again
- give some money to family and close friends
- build a dream house for my wife and kids
- visit Ireland, and then tour the world a bit
- take my 89-year-old ailing grandmother on a nice cruise
- create a small foundation to help sick kids
- buy season tickets for the Habs in the reds
- buy a Tundra pick-up for daily driving, and a muscle car for play
- buy my dad a 1967 Beaumont convertible like he had a long time ago, and still misses
- buy a chalet up in the Laurentians by a lake as a retreat
- build a MAACA headquarters / workshop / warehouse
- buy a loaded Navistar RXT with a box in the back to haul pins on long trips, and a couple of pick-up trucks for the guys
- hire a few MAACA members as employees (finally get Goodick out of Thunder bay! lol)
- buy pinball rights, either GTB or the WMS rights... after Wayne loses them folowing the expiry of his 5-year term and negotiate with Gene C. and all distributors to make good things happen
- start a Canadian arcade and pinball convention, just like Allentown, and make it big


and other stuff I can't think of right away.

Some how I'd go here:



..if even just in my mind (or my basement).  Ah 1978 - 82 it was a smokin'  good time!

[And yes Cooke, I've had a drink.  But this is one spot I think you'd join me for another.]

43 Mil.... hhmmm.

~I would get everyone I know (and like) out of debt.
~Buy me a private island as my winter retreat
~My husband would buy the plane(s) he's always wanted
~We'd travel the world
~We'd have the best arcade in Canada
~Also buy a few muscle cars
~Adopt a bunch of kids
~Buy a lot of property
~Retire
~Invest the rest