Quick answer: Stargate - 1500$ Yes or no.

Frax

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This girl is holding this for me, I just went to her house and looked at it. I want it bad but $1500 is a huge stretch for me at the moment. It will wipe me out fun-money wise and then a little bit more.

I was the first to contact, so she's thankfully allowed me to go look at it and gave me 24 hours to make a decision.

It's mylared, there's no PF wear, hardly any cabinet wear AT ALL , DMD looks good, translite is good, the button battery hasn't leaked. She said they had a service guy come out yesterday and do some maint. I would not be surprised. It played great, has the factory original coinbox, is clean as hell inside the head and cabinet. Play counter is at 26,000 plays. Sounds like a lot, but like I said...the machine appears to be completely functional with only VERY minor things like probably a flipper rebuild just to get them back up to full strength.

Cabinet isn't faded at all, nice deep purples and blues. Unknown if rope light is working or not, I didn't think to go into test mode.

I think I've got a steal on my hands. Opinion?
 
Buy it. SG is a great game. If for some reason you don't like it, you should have no problem breaking even at that price.
 
Buy it, I saw the ad too, sounds like a good deal for this machine in that condition. I played it a few times at Pinballz in Austin, fun game but not on my must get list. Like another said, if you dont like it, you could probably sell it pretty easily with all the collectors in the Dallas area.
 
the next words you should post are here are pic of it in my home. if and when you get bored of it you will at least break even on it.i would love to have that pin in my home.
 
Just got one after looking for some time, underrated and compared to other pins price wise I think this title is best bang for your buck you can get, I love mine and Ill never sell it...Hands down Gottliebs best dmd IMO:D do it
 
If I was near Dallas, you wouldn't have the chance to ask this question because it would be in my basement now.

Gottlieb System 3's best game. Should be a tank once it's dialed in and maintained properly.

Go get it now.

RussMyers
 
Post pics. I wanted to like this one, but didn't in the few games I'd played on it at the PHOF. I could have been distracted by the 100 or so other games I wanted to play, so I'm curious if you end up liking it or not.
 
Really? Everyone here thinks $1,500 for a Stargate pin is an incredible deal? Remind me to post here when I have another game to sell. It's not a bad game, but $1,500 is a few hundred overpriced for a Stargate IMHO.
 
Really? Everyone here thinks $1,500 for a Stargate pin is an incredible deal? Remind me to post here when I have another game to sell. It's not a bad game, but $1,500 is a few hundred overpriced for a Stargate IMHO.

Depends on condition, of course. A lot of Stargates I have seen are wrecks - horrible lifting and clouding on the mylar, bad inserts, heavily corroded lamp sockets and metal assemblies under the playfield.

If it's overall nice and working 100%, you could sell a Stargate around here for 1500 all day long.

1500 is not a steal, but it is a reasonable deal.

Pins go for less in the Midwest than the coasts, IMHO.

RussMyers
 
Really? Everyone here thinks $1,500 for a Stargate pin is an incredible deal? Remind me to post here when I have another game to sell. It's not a bad game, but $1,500 is a few hundred overpriced for a Stargate IMHO.

No, you're right. An average Stargate should be in the $1000 to $1200 range. It would have to be in primo condition for me to pay $1500. They've been hard to find around my area though (been looking for quite some time now). Last one I looked at the guy wanted $1K for, and it was a complete turd.... I didn't even bother to try to haggle on price... it was in such sad shape that I wasn't interested at any price.
If anyone has a decent Stargate in the NE, I'll gladly pay $1200.
 
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If you decide to get rid of it, ill make you the same trade deal I made her. My who dunnit for the stargate or a centipede caberet, raiden 2 and a dartstar spectrum dart machine for stargate.
 
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