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Unboxing brand new 25 year old Jurassic Park pinball machine
- Thread starter Gowans
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WOW. I'm super Jealous. This is the first pinball machine I fell in love with, and I really want to have one of my own eventually.
Great vid. As someone old enough to grow up going to arcades and being very interested in the care and setup of these machines I found this video especially fascinating. I've never seen one NIB before.
Nah, that's a $2300ish machine. Pinball machines are almost always sold on private sites. Do not trust eBay.
That's actually doable. Never looked into it seriously, but I assume most of these machines are probably not in the best of shape?
What a find!! Miss seeing these beasts around at pizza places and bowling alleys. Not that I ever really played them, but they still had a presence.
Reminds me of the time a bunch of still boxed Amiga 1200's were found in a warehouse a few years back (2012 I think?)
No, perfectly fine shape. Top end of a NICE BoP is probably $2700-2800. $2300 may need a cleaning or a shop job. $2000 or so is probably one that needs parts fixed or repaired. Pinball is expensive, yes...But it's not as miserable as it could be!
That was almost 10 years ago and they were found by Petro Tsychtchenko and he sold them for like 200 euros shipped. They were part of a caritative project aimed at giving poor indian students computers so they could learn (and came with a word processor and so on)
They never made it to India and he found them in an old wharehouse. I was in contact with him at the time and he offered me a few units but since my two a1200 were fine I (foolishly) passed on it
Wow, fascinating. What do you mean they never made it to india? Did somebody take advantage of the charitable low price to snag them and resell them?
No they weren't meant for sale. They were supposed to reach India back in 1995 and were part of a new A1200 run by Amiga Technologies.
Petro found them a decade later and sold them. I believe they were just forgotten (never got the whole story and he wasn't in the best of situations back then)
Petro is an all around amazing guy though
Ah, I see what you mean now. That's a great little story, thanks for sharing.
What the hell, I literally just watched this last week haha. No idea why.
It's fascinating to see it in such mint condition, I'd love to own one of these! Pinball machines look like a fulltime job to upkeep though...
It's fascinating to see it in such mint condition, I'd love to own one of these! Pinball machines look like a fulltime job to upkeep though...
I love this machine, there's a place a few blocks from me that had it but had to remove it because it was breaking down too much.
I always wanted Fun House. Or actually one of the Mario or Simpsons machines. I have always been fascinated and intrigued by pinball machines. There's just something about them.
Sorry if off topic...asking for a friend...how much is a decent shape Sopranos pinball?
That's probably in the $4200-4800 range. Doesn't pop up much, either.
I guess I will stick with the PS2 game if I want some licensed James gandolfini (RIP)
They have one of those at a local (chain) restaurant. I'll have to play it next time I'm there.
Having a pinball machine would be great, but I would have to do tons of in person research before dropping cash on one.