Bought a pin, now my vids suck

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Anyone ever buy their first pin only to realize that their vids are no longer fun?

Well, maybe its just a phase, but all my other games seem really lame now that I've got a pinball and soon to be two pinballs. I only have 3 other games and various boards, but I'm really thinking of ditching it all to pursuit pinball.

Who all here has a combination collections? Or possibly sold all their vids and went to pinball?

......................who wants a dedicated MK3
 
They are definitely 2 separate worlds for a reason. I think after the novelty of your pin dies down you'll go back to your vids again, but each of the 2 flavors of games has its high points.

Now you know why there were always both kinds in the arcades BITD!

Enjoy.
 
That's me exactly; I bought my first pin, a Doctor Who, earlier this year and came to same realization. I sold all of my vids except for my Ms. Pac-Man (which is the game that got me into this hobby), Now I have three pins and haven't looked back. I just find pins much more gratifying to collect & play.
 
I have a friend who is a long-time worshipper of Robotron, and describes pins as this:

"pins were cool; and then TV was invented"

I'm not saying I agree with him.. Just using him as an example that there are vid game players and then there are pin players! :D
 
I like them both for diff reasons. For me it does go in phases - I'll get more interested in vids for awhile, then back to pins, etc. But there's always some interest in both.
 
I have both and I feel they definitely compliment each other. One thing I noticed is that people that aren't into video games at all get very excited about pinball. I think the vid's might be a little intimidating to non-gamers, but pinball is universally understood.

I love having both, there is absolutely no way I would only want to have one or the other, though I did have vids for 4 years before I got my first pin. The other thing is that pins are painfully expensive to anyone used to buying vids for under $300. You can have a whole row of nice vids for the price of a middling DMD pin.
 
I can't speak on your point about how vids get boring once you have a pin, but I am looking for a pin fo my collection. I grew up playing arcade games, so I don't think getting a pin will kill that nostalgic feeling though.

Another thing- pins are so damn expensive compared to arcade games!
 
Anyone ever buy their first pin only to realize that their vids are no longer fun?

Well, maybe its just a phase, but all my other games seem really lame now that I've got a pinball and soon to be two pinballs. I only have 3 other games and various boards, but I'm really thinking of ditching it all to pursuit pinball.

Who all here has a combination collections? Or possibly sold all their vids and went to pinball?

......................who wants a dedicated MK3

Totally agree.

I have force myself to turn on the vids. Been that way for over a year now. I'll never get rid of all the vids but playing pong just doesnt compare to the sensory overload of a good pin for me.
 
I really love both pinball games and arcade video games. To me they are from the same world - the arcade. I find it interesting that many pinball guys hate video and many video guys simply "don't get" pinball. From an art and sound perspective, the games of the 80's share a lot of common elements.

However, I have noticed that when I finally die in a video game that I am good at that I feel very frustrated, but when I get game over in pinball, I usually feel more satisfied overall.

Pinball games are more expensive, with some titles having pretty outrageous price tags. I find that the 80's games offer the best bang for the buck as far as gameplay depth goes. They are usually in the $750 - $1500 range and have pretty decent depth, though not as complex as the 90's titles.

-BB
 
I have wanted a pin for a couple years but couldn't justify the money it took to get into it. This year I decided to take the plunge. I had to sell 4 vids to get the cash for my first pin. That turned into 2 pins 2 weeks later and now I have another project pin. My last 2 pick ups were vids so I don't see only having pins because I enjoy them both. I'm just going to keep my 4-5 favorite vids and pickup pins when good deals come along. - Barry
 
I really love both pinball games and arcade video games. To me they are from the same world - the arcade. I find it interesting that many pinball guys hate video and many video guys simply "don't get" pinball. From an art and sound perspective, the games of the 80's share a lot of common elements.

However, I have noticed that when I finally die in a video game that I am good at that I feel very frustrated, but when I get game over in pinball, I usually feel more satisfied overall.

Pinball games are more expensive, with some titles having pretty outrageous price tags. I find that the 80's games offer the best bang for the buck as far as gameplay depth goes. They are usually in the $750 - $1500 range and have pretty decent depth, though not as complex as the 90's titles.

-BB

You can get lots of modern/90's-00's/DMD pins for well under $2000, and they tend to have a lot more depth than the 80's games while not costing much more. I got a very clean World Poker Tour (2005 game) just a few months back for $1800, and a fully-working and cosmetically nice (just needed some cleanup) Last Action Hero (Data East DMD) for $750. I think many of the Data East games give the best pin bang-for-the-buck. They tend to have lots of modes and ramps/mechanisms, and tend to be closer to $1k.

Pins are usually more effort to maintain than vids, as there are lots of moving parts! Most stuff involves minor physical adjustments or part swapping, and the electronics aspect is probably no tougher than fixing flaky monitors.
 
Don't sell your vids just yet.

I was all vid... got a couple pins and decided I liked pins better. Got a couple more and got bored with them and went back to vids.

I'll hold on to 2-3 pins at a time, but that'll just about do it for me right now.
 
I have always been mostly a vid player, but I like to play Pinball as well. After owning several pre 1985 pins, I don't think I will ever like those enough to own one again. The only 80s pins I own are High Speed and Pinbot, and I think I will stick with just those. I would like to add 2 or 3 DMD pins, but that will take a while due to cost. The rest of my gameroom will be vids. That is how I remember the arcades; tons of vids and a few pins, and I like that ratio.

Most pins play pretty much the same for crappy players, so it is hard to make a huge investment when you don't understand the reason for it being that way. My pins have 2 and 3 ball multiball, and I still suck at it. :)

IN general, it seems pretty common for collectors to move all the way to pins once they start, and most pinheads that I know actually have an extreme hatred of vids.
 
Don't sell your vids just yet.

I will probably store them at a friends arcade so he can enjoy them until I decide what to do or find someone to trade with.

BTW. I picked up a Millionaire pin that is fully working, but needs some tlc. The guy that I got it from was overly nice and willing to help with future repairs. He also has an Older Playmatic Rio for sale that is in decent shape and working as well.

I would buy a decent millionaire playfield if someone had one.
 
While I like them both, I think it is telling for me that I can spend much more time in front of videogames playing them than time spent playing pins. I get tired of the pins much more quickly.

It's probably one of the reasons my collection has always looked like an inverse bell curve. Heavy on the penny arcade machines, and heavy on the videogames, but light on pins.

At least 1 or two are a good addition to a game room though.

And yes, I know several people that have sold off their collections of vids and started collecting pins. For some of them a few token vids and a multi- or mame- setup seems to feed the fix.
 
I own both; prefer pins more. More complex play and fixes.
No two game sessions are alike. No such thing as a "pattern"
 
I enjoy both, though I actually prefer to play vids and fix pins. Pinball machines are more "satisfying" to fix, since there are mechanical elements, not just a circuit board (and I'm an electrical engineer...).
 
Yeah, I like them both too but space obviously becomes an issue with both. Right now, I can comfortable fit 12 pins in my basement and could probably fit 7 more BUT then I would have to get rid of Ms Pac, Asteroids, Super Sprint, my pitch 'n' bat, SF2:CE, and my EM gun game. No way. Not right now anyway.

However, as blasphemous as it may sound, MsPac will eventually become a 60-in-1 and my Joust is almost a 19-in-1 (although Clay's new board looking much better). Asteroids will likely be replaced by a Space Duel (w/ ZVG mame) and I have a Neo Geo on the way. SF2:CE will become a fighter mame. The only dedicated, non-multigame vids I'll have are Warlords CT and Super Sprint.

*My* arcade needs balance of both worlds. If I owned a mansion, I would consider dedicated vids but I don't so compromises have to be made. But I would never go one or the other. If I did, what would I do with my Baby Pac???
 
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