If you’ve been doing this for awhile, you’ll eventually run into your first set of “killer stairs” and vow you never want to go through that again. Also, the next time you ask a friend to help you pick up a game, they’ll suddenly have something much more important to do, like get their back waxed.
This just happened yesterday so it’s a timely addition to pinball stories. Got a call from a friend who had a bead on a retired guy who had two games in his garage. We’d each take one of the machines. What does he have? We don’t know – mystery game time!!
As we all know, pinballs can be unpredictable. But what happens when you arrange a sale and then things go wrong? Can you salvage the deal? I try…
A very common source for pinball machines is from storage lockers. And when you help someone clean out a storage locker, you never know what other kinds of deals there might be. This is the story of getting a pinball machine and something else (that makes a pinball machine seem puny).
Sometimes going after a pinball machine takes you on a weird and wacky experience. Here’s my story of running into a really weird character who did a number on me.
This is a story of one of those really rewarding moments when a rare game shows up, and also you have it given to you. Being in the right place at the right time pays off!
This is a story about finally acquiring a game I’d been looking for for the entire length of my pinball hobby. It was one of my grail games, and I wheeled and dealed until I managed to get one. Here’s the story.