How many people have kept their first Pinball?  

My first pin was a TAF.  Beat to hell, I sent to playfield out to get CC and touched up and it now looks like a million bucks after all the work I put in.  Problem is I never play it and when I do play it I don't really enjoy it.  I would much rather have a TSPP as I know that game will hold my interest in the same way LOTR does for years to come but I just can't bring myself to sell the TAF and buy the TSPP.  Sentimental value sets in and every time I mention to the GF that I want to sell TAF she gives me this look that makes me feel all that more terrible about wanting to sell the game.  

So does anyone else still have there first pin?  If they sold it did they regret it?

Sold mine with no regrets, its was a Gottlieb Lights, Camera, Action

However, i'm not shy to mention that i enjoyed it a lot for over a year, sold it eventually because i found better, and still doing the same today with GnR, which has a way bigger emotional value to me than the LCA had, and GnR is also my wife's favourite and the game she wanted me to keep.. oh well, too bad its MY hobby, she is barely playing once every 3 months..

My First Pin was a robocop.
I don't really regret it

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How many people have kept their first Pinball?  

My first pin was a TAF.  Beat to hell, I sent to playfield out to get CC and touched up and it now looks like a million bucks after all the work I put in.  Problem is I never play it and when I do play it I don't really enjoy it.  I would much rather have a TSPP as I know that game will hold my interest in the same way LOTR does for years to come but I just can't bring myself to sell the TAF and buy the TSPP.  Sentimental value sets in and every time I mention to the GF that I want to sell TAF she gives me this look that makes me feel all that more terrible about wanting to sell the game.  

So does anyone else still have there first pin?  If they sold it did they regret it?

My first pins were a Gorgar and Evel Knevel. Both dead and cheap. The EK was too far gone with serious battery acid damage and the playfield was beat. I sold it as is to a Bally collector.

I got the Gorgar working with help from my Father in Law. Great memories of the game. I sold it a year or so later with a bunch of vids to get my TZ. Obviously, I have no regrets about that decision Cann't believe that was 10 years ago.

I have often thought of getting another Gorgar and, in fact, have bought 2. I really enjoy the game, but only have so much room and it hasn't made the cut.

One of these days I may buy one and actually keep it. Would love to have a Gorgar next to a fully restored BK. Two of the best games from that era.

Duane

still regret getting rid of my cftbl. will own one again when i have room for 5+ machines.

to be fair, my pinball skills have increase quite a bit in the past couple years; its possible i'd find creech too shallow on rules. but i think not - creech isn't about finishing the wizard mode, it's about racking up a monster score ... to me it's an old school game with new school looks & dmd.

My first was a Gottlieb "Swing Along" - you had to push a rod to put the ball into the shooter lane.  I cut my teeth on it (which was a 14th birthday present from my coinop distributor uncle). I learned to fix EMs by the seat of my pants back then, but had to sell it when I moved out East to go to school.  A single EM gets boring after the novelty wears off, but I miss it for nostalgic reasons.  My next "first" 20 years later was a Data East "Laser War" and it remains with me at all times ... well , so far.  

Whirlwind, loved that game as a kid, so it was what I wanted. But it was to beat up, sold it and lost $300 in the end, but I learned a lot from it. Got the confidence to move into WPC and have been stuck there ever since.

My first was a Mr&Mrs.Pacman which I brought back from the dead. It had no MPU, no solenoid driver, the mylar was bubbled all over the playfield, and lots of wire hacks and mechanical problems. I fixed it all up and sold it to Count a few years later.

I was thrilled to have it until I got it fully running for the first time, and heard the voice say PACMAN! in a helium-loaded voice. It was at that point that I decided to sell it once finished. I still have tons of parts for it. I played it a bit but never got into it.

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Whirlwind, loved that game as a kid, so it was what I wanted. But it was to beat up, sold it and lost $300 in the end, but I learned a lot from it. Got the confidence to move into WPC and have been stuck there ever since.

Kid??? Who you kidding? Or are you talking this Whirl-wind:

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?.....amp;searchtype=quick

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Duane who bought HP5P's Funhouse and hope he knows I'm razing him

  

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Kid??? Who you kidding? Or are you talking this Whirl-wind:

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?.....amp;searchtype=quick

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Duane who bought HP5P's Funhouse and hope he knows I'm razing him

  

My house is a Gottlieb free zone, but that was a good one, I am in my forties, not late fifties.  

Hope you are enjoying the Funhouse. Is the gameroom done?

Nope. I had a Camelot I bought way back when I was 12 years old when even Enzo was still a kid.

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My house is a Gottlieb free zone, but that was a good one, I am in my forties, not late fifties.  

Hope you are enjoying the Funhouse. Is the gameroom done?

Sadly, the game room is not done. The Funhouse is also not done. Shopped it and put it back together, but I have a couple of wires that are loose and I cann't figure out where they go. I'll get to it. Hope to work on it this weekend. It cleaned up really nice and I cann't wait to place the first game!

Duane

My first was a  Flight 2000 that I bought in an arcade in '85. I kept it for more that 10 years, not knowing that it could be repaired, that parts were still available. When I moved I let the machine there, but it was in a very bad shape. I regret it very much. If I knew that there was a group like this at the time, I would have kept it and have it refurbished...

the first I had was pinbot ... (gone twice) ... the first I wanted was funhouse... and it's still there

My first pins was  F-14 Tomcat  I bought it in  1998  from a clasified ad in local new paper,I always have it.




Jacques

First one in was first one out..  No regrets..  (1977 Hot Tip).

Mike

My first game was a 78' Bally Playboy, still have it, and I still love it. I learned alot with that machine.

I'll add the first DMD I got was a TZ. Still have it after 10 years and it will never leave.  

Duane

First Game Demolition Man
Still got it and no plans to sell

My first was a KISS in 1996 and it'll be the last to leave.  

My first game was Funhouse, drove all the way to Ottawa to get it.  Still have it, and it's in the que to be fully restored.

Problem is, I just can't stop buying more games.....

D

I still have my first and second and third and.....

My first game was a WCS94 bought retail for my son and it all went downhill from there     I fell in love with pinballs and starting getting them for both of us and now I just get them for me . My son still claims ownership of the WCS tho which will never leave both because it is his and also because I could have bought 2 of them for what I paid . Lesson learned but no regrets as it started me in this great hobby and all the new friends that I've met.  

ME

I bought two pins at the same time from a local operator. Both Gottlieb, a 1970 Baseball and a 1979 Pinball Pool. I still have both. The Baseball I still play a lot, a simple game that only lasts a couple of minutes. The Pinball Pool I played a lot when I first got it but it has some problems now I hope to get around to repairing.

My first game was Gorgar - pure nostalgia; it's gone now and I kind of miss it...  Had to make room for DMD's.  My first DMD was JM and it too is gone.
If I had the room (which I don't), EBD and Royal Flush would be in my collection from a nostalgia point of view.

I still have my WH2O. I'd only get rid of it to make room for a better pin. Haven't found one yet! (That I can afford, and is available)

My First Pin was an Atari "Superman"! Bought it waaaaaay back in about 1985 (I think), Still have it, Great game!

Dave

I seem to be the loser - overpaid for a The Professional - an Evel Knieval overlay.   I enjoy the early SS chimes and gameplay.   Might sell it - but who would buy it?  

Hippochrome has a better idea - make my own plastics / playfield overlay / etc.    A project I'll never get a round to, but a good idea.   Jen won't allow it in the gameroom its so ugly.   Trying to make room to setit up in the workshop...

First pin was a Cyclone - ended up getting it in exchange for helping out a local operator in oakville while i was in college, spent my saturday nights parting cabs, fixing machines, cleaning, helping change machines on route, and they gave me a really nice Cyclone, which is still in my collection right now and will never leave, but that was only in 1998 (i'm only 29) so still pretty new into collecting.

Eric

My first machine was a DE Back to the Future, which I got a really good deal on and will never be leaving my collection.

After 2 years on r.g.p, decided it was time to bite the bullet and get a pin.. The nicest pins in town were in old montreal on st. paul street arcade.  They had a  nice funhouse. called the owner up and i was in luck, he wanted only $1500 for it:  which was my budget. i asked him if he had any other pins for sale (because there weren't any others that i liked), he said would i be interested in twilight zone.

would i?  i'd been pumping at least 2 dollars a day since august 93 on TZ.

i didn't have the extra $500 that he wanted. forgot what i did to get the extra 400 that month. remember being misty eyed walking in the warehouse with all the pins/videos.

that was july 95... TZ ain't leaving.

My first machine that I bought from AMX was HIGH HAND my only regrets is that I didn't know how to do touch up and restore all the machine and I sold that for LAST ACTION HERO second error.If my basement would be bigger I would find high hand just for nostalgy

My first pin was a Stern Magic I won on Ebay for $320, working... I sold it 'cause I ended up moving, but managed to get one off here from Pinstocker!  It's in much better shape!  And thanks to Cooke, it lives again!    I won't be selling this one.

Played TAF all through high school, decided about 5 years ago I wanted one so that's the one I got.
Good shape but dirty, learned a lot just taking it apart to clean and put back together....looked at 3-4 other TAFs before getting this one.
Still have it, won't ever leave!

Charlie's Angels Gahn no regrets

Sorcerer was my first pin after about a dozen vids. Wish I still had it, but it currently has a good home with a maaca member.

Now, 20ish pins later, I've come to terms with the fact that nothing lasts forever and pins will come and go. The ones I really like just stay longer than others.  

cftbl was my first and it will never leave. Machine slave I'm glad things worked out with the magic

Mine was a starship troopers from a starburst auction.
Sold it to Nick,
Who sold it to Tom and Jennifer.
So I know where it is.
Likely should have kept it, a great game.
Tim

Less than a year in the hobby so I still have my first games.. Meteor: have learn a lot, have to rebuild the power supply and repair a hacked G.I.... now I only have to do something about the playfield.. the other thing I learn it's I will probably losing some money I will decide if I keep it or not when fully restore, but probably trade it... nearly roll the score at my second game and I'm not a good player.. maybe with a faster playfield..

In the same time, I found an old Zig Zag project. The guy said it was store the last 12 years and he tought the last game played on it was over 17 years. EM game is a lot of works to restoring, I'm still cleaning it. After that, a big playfield job and impossible ti find plastics Again will never get back the money put in it but cost me less than school and I will remember more things

My first was T-2 and I still have it.

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I've come to terms with the fact that nothing lasts forever and pins will come and go. The ones I really like just stay longer than others.  

Well said

Mike

My first was Bally Flicker. Bought from Jim on ebay. I always wanted a pin and this was the same one I grew up playing every summer at my cousins restaurant in rural Nfld when I was 7 - 10. However, once I got it I quickly got tired of the slow game play. Then I bought CBW on ebay from Jim - loved that pin. Traded them both for his SS.

I miss CBW (don't laugh) but not the Flicker - though I really loved the backglass. I thought really hard about getting rid of the pin and framing the backglass but decided this would be sacreligious!

TZ will never leave.

My first Pinball was a Who Dunnit.  I had played some pinball in the arcade during university but had never really understood the depth of the rules.  

I got lucky on that game as I bought it from Regent but they couldn't get the CBW I was supposed to buy working so they swapped in the Who Dunnit instead for the same price!($1500 in 2004)  Needless to say I got very luck not to overpay on my first pin as the price tag they had on the Who Dunnit was $2799!   After a few months of playing and realizing that the only way to really get high scores was to bet on the roulette wheel(My High score was 16 Billion that started from a score of 5 B and 3 spins later I hit 16) I decided that I needed something that required more skill to get high scores.  

So It got traded for a Getaway which I ended up hating, and then that turned into a shadow which I got bored of(SUPER VENGEANCE!! for high scores!) and finally turned into my Whitewater which I absolutely love!  

I found a Who dunnit on Location a few months ago and was really digging the game again until I had one ball that I was able to play about 10 different multiballs on and then proceeded to lose all the points i had earned on one spin of the roulette wheel.  I said "10 minutes of great play and nothing to show for it, this is why I got rid of my first game!"

But my Second game Whirlwind will never leave the house so that is close enough