I just got into "real" pins after looking for the past year I pulled the trigger on my first one on Nov 12. It was a really good condition 1986 Williams High Speed.
I also have a full size 3 screen Virtual Pinball cab I built myself earlier this year and can play around 200+ tables from High Speed to Theatre of Magic, Taxi, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Monster Bash, Indiana Jones, etc... No comparison to the real thing but still fun to play. Build thread here in case anyone is interested in it:
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7905
Anyways going back to High Speed, I played it quite a bit that first weekend but got bored of it and started regretting not going with a more modern pin. Luckily I was able to sell it 3 days later for a small profit

The guy really wanted this as it was his holy grail so who was I to stand in his way. Took that money and put in a bit more and bought my next pin.
Then on Nov 19 I bought my first DMD pin, 1994 Williams Demolition Man which I played before at my friend's house. Love it and even did my first repair to it since a ball was not registering in the upper chute due to a broken wire from the PCB. Also changed a ton of bulbs and table is amazing.
Then on Nov 28 I bought another DMD pin, 1994 Bally World Cup Soccer '94 from my collector friend since he was downsizing his collection and needed to fun some of his projects he has had folded up for a while like an Earthshaker and Shadow. I got a really good price and knowing that I bought from him put me at ease since he takes good care of his pins.
Here is what my line up looks like now:
My game room has had an extreme make over in the past 3 weeks and I think I will settle down now since moving pins up and down is a challenge in my house cause it is very tight. After owning my first real pinball machine now I understand why my friend has 20+ in his collection cause it is just silly to have one and perhaps that is why you lose interest in your Taxi cause you need a bit of variety? Every collector I have talked said you can't just have one, it is either many or none
I also have a SFII CE cab which I converted to MAME and I hardly use it but glad I have it as I grew up playing lots of SFII on the exact same cab so it holds a special place inside for me. I don't what it is about pinball but I don't think I could ever get bored of it cause every ball played is not entirely the same where as with SFII you can only beat M.Bison in so many ways such as one handed, blind folded, drunk or high
