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Ahh back in the day

stumblor said:
Those were called 'fags' when I was growing up in Oz and had a red lit end and everything. When someone at fags hq realised it probably wasn't cool marketing candy homophobic cigarettes to kids they rebranded them as 'fads', removed the red lit end, and very quickly went out of business.
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We had those in Blighty, in a cigarette type pack & with the light brown sugary paper wrapped round the candy stick that disolved when wet and the red end!

"Look at me mom, I'm smoking a fag!" (This means something completely different if you're American BTW....)

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Anyway back to the pinball stuff this thread is really going sideways now...
 
Nice Chris. I remember that catalogue well. As Phil says, those were top end prices of games in refurbished condition. Great to see it again.

Always found it interesting how Phil championed Shadow so much over other games. Made me really want one
 
The ones that interest me the most are the ones that are no longer sold 'due to customer reports'... Popeye is a no-brainer but for someone like me who can only look back in retrospect, seeing that for Congo, Safecracker and Dirty Harry, Not sure what the story would have been - Congo and Safecracker could have been duds for coin drop, I could imagine that a bit, but Dirty Harry? I used to see that machine a lot...
 
Meanwhile over in the other thread everyone is talking the prices up :)


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Neil McRae said:
Meanwhile over in the other thread everyone is talking the prices up :)


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I think people need to accept prices have gone up. I mean I love the good old days of cheap machines, but prices were only going to go one way.
 
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Alpha1 said:
I think people need to accept prices have gone up. I mean I love the good old days of cheap machines, but prices were only going to go one way.
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Spoken like a true seller.


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All relative really.
Avg. new house price in 1995 - £62,000
Avg. new house price today - £255,000

And I'm not sure where you'll be buying one for that money either........

(Glad I'm not Tony Blair!)
 
That’s a great find well done Chris, you can’t beat a bit of nostalgia. Had one hell of a collection back then Addams, TZ, SS, IJ, SWE1, RFM, STNG, DW, CFTBL, FS if I’d of sold them all back then it wouldn’t of been enough to buy a GNR now 😳😂🤪 mad hobby but still love it 👍
 
Always fun to look back at old receipts and price lists. Some pinball things have actually gone up relatively small amounts. Star posts for example are probably cheaper now factoring in inflation/cash worth. Found a few death leisure receipts from 1997/9 era. Also the pinball game price increase isn't linear across years (as we all probably realised now)

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If you look at my receipt for a new spider from 2007, the new price isn't that much more than the new gofers in 1997/8, so not much increase in 10 years. A lot of increase from 2007-2017 though!!

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1998 - buy your first house. Immediately put your all time favourite pinball machine and 7x4 Superleague in it ...20210501_071943.jpg
 
Solney in Burton were the resting place for many unloved pins in the late 90s - off by the container load to South America or Eastern Europe. £200 cash per machine very few questions asked but they would refuse Gottlieb and Data East if they had too many. They often had 200 plus pins on racks ready to be shipped out. All the way up to games like Theatre of Magic but very few Addams Family as it kept earning even as pinball commerically died. Its ironic that the internet which could have seen the death of amusement games led to hobby forums and of couse auctions giants like eBay. Before eBay you had exchange and mart or the POA mag that became very infrequent from about 1995 and only reached the hard core not the masses.
 

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Was Admag for me... yellow Saturday was usually better than pink Wednesday. You'd see machines pop up every few months. It was like buying a scratchy.. 1 in 4 chance you'd find anything..
 
strobey said:
Was Admag for me... yellow Saturday was usually better than pink Wednesday. You'd see machines pop up every few months. It was like buying a scratchy.. 1 in 4 chance you'd find anything..
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Just remembering the Exchange & Mart song - If you liked it you shoulda put a ring around it
 
I can still remember the music on hold for admag.. "pick-it-up, and pick up a baaargain" (cue baseline loop..)
 
I had Star Wars in E&M for over a year for £250 and no interest. Times definitely change
 
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