Has this Been a light, average or grear year in new pickups

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Has this Been a light, average or grear year in new pickups

This year I have probably done less with my games than any other year. Not to mention I haven't picked up anything new. I have been looking havent found anything worth picking up. Just wondering if it was just me?
 
2012 for me was a 'maintain' year. I spent most of 2011 building my collection.

I did manage to score a great price on an EDOT though. Vader1979 is finishing that one up right now (he bought it from me.)
 
Grabbed two rare vectors this year. That's about it. Starting to sell some others off so I have a manageable number of games.
 
exteremly light.
Been working too much, too many bills/no money, games around here are rare anyways, and somebody is spamming the hell out of rockford craigs with wtb ads so i miss basically everything im interested in.

Sigh. At least i have a van now.
 
Light in number of machines, but probably my best year overall. I finally added STTNG and Area 51, which were the last of my most wanted games.
 
Taxi, Defender and Asteroids... Not a lot of pickups, but quality-wise, definitely my best year since setting up a gameroom. 2012 is also the first year I completely stopped grabbing games just because they were available and focused on specific titles.
 
Heavy. Every game in my sig except afm and dkjr were added this year. 2 years ago I sold 3 pins to buy a viper. Sold the car early this year and with pin prices so high I am getting back into vids. I abandoned vids in 2001 for pins, good to be back!
 
this year

this year so far got some really nice additions like mappy, jr pacman, baby pacman, granny and the gators, tron le, tapper, timber, rotj, dot ur, ff, are the highlights. also got my first pinball, meteor.
have been pretty lucky getting some hard to get games. i think it is a very good year so far i could say i have pretty much every game i have wanted with the exception of a few.
thanks alot to klov classifieds and fellow klovr's.
 
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I thought it was going to be a crap year untill I picked up a T2 (pin) Galaga and Pole Position all in one transaction!
So it turns out everything was all good.
I felt bad because Pole Position wasnt on "my list" but it was a condition of getting the pin so it had to be done.
I also bought a nice Judge Dredd and a Demo Man, so wait this year was AWSEOME!
 
I wasn't planning to do much of anything this year, but 2012 has been my busiest game room year yet. I bought several vids and then later wound up selling almost half of my collection to grab some pins.
 
I haven't bought anything this year. Several factors have let to that decision...

(1.) the family's focus is on our 8 month old daughter,
(2.) a lack of space,
(3.) generally low on funds,
and (4.) I traded my F-150 for a Hyundai Accent last year.

All of which adds up to game snagging being a near impossibility right now. But I still have a game room I'm damn proud of, with a nice selection of titles and manufacturers, so I have that going for me... which is nice.

Kyle :cool:
 
Heavy. Every game in my sig except afm and dkjr were added this year. 2 years ago I sold 3 pins to buy a viper. Sold the car early this year and with pin prices so high I am getting back into vids. I abandoned vids in 2001 for pins, good to be back!

Those must have been three hellacious pins. :D

It has been a good year for me with about the same movement as usual but much better titles.
 
well, I just got into arcade collecting about this time last year. Actually, I was looking into building a MAME box about this time last year, then in November I picked up a NeoGeo for cheap instead... and to this day, I still dont have a MAME box, but I have picked up 4 other games this year instead.

Sold 2 of them to make room. Now am pleased with the ones I have left, but would still love a MAME box to be able to play a lot of the classics, and also many of the old SNES/NES games I loved.
 
This is my best year so far. Got a Battlezone mini, Ms Pacman, Defender, Neogeo, Punchout, Pacman, a Pepsi Machine, and 20 machines i picked up last weekend. My garage is packed. Need to sell off some machines. Luckily of the 20 machines i just picked up i'm only keeping Street Fighter 2 and Heavyweight Champ. Total out of pocket expense....... Maybe $400. And once i sell off a bunch of games i don't want i'll be making a profit.
 
Those must have been three hellacious pins. :D

Black Spider Man, Addams Gold, and a sample Scared Stiff. It was an 04 Viper with 12k miles, paid 38k for it. Came up with a little more than half of it selling the pins. I'm from Detroit and my Dad made the molds for the first Vipers so I had always wanted one. The car is ridiculous, it really shouldn't be street legal. I was regularly going 120+ on the freeway and realized I needed to sell before something really bad happened. It was a blast while I had it tho!
 
I've picked up 20 games so far this year, roughly half are going to be worked on over the winter months. I've also committed to 2-5 more that I'm hoping to get before the end of the year.
 
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