Wanted:Varkon

Good luck with that. I'd be really curious what kind of money something like that would change hands for.

I sold my last one about 5 years back for something like $2500. Don't know if it's gone up or down since then, but I'd guess up.
 
Wow! I didn't know these could be had for so cheap!

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or serious. In case you're being serious....

I think what holds Varkon back from achieving Medieval Madness or Cactus Canyon prices is that it truly sucks to play. I mean it is hard to get through one game of it without walking away. At least MM and CC (as the pin guys call them) are fun to play.

Just my opinion.
 
I like it. It's not deep or anything, but it's fun. I've had mine for 5 years now and it took me 5 years to find it. It's worth the hunt for it's uniqueness. There were only 90 made...
 
I think what holds Varkon back from achieving Medieval Madness or Cactus Canyon prices is that it truly sucks to play. I mean it is hard to get through one game of it without walking away.
Just my opinion.

John, I used to fell the same way as you.

I remember playing this back in the arcades. Wasn't anything special to me. I played it at Pinball Expo (or was it CAX?) a few different years too and again, didn't do anything for me.

A couple years ago, I found one as a basket case. I knew it had value and had it beautifully restored. From the time the restoration was done until I sold it was less than a week. I only played it a few times and again, it was nothing special for me.

A couple months ago, I got invited to a pin party and they had one there. This time, I got some time to learn how to play it and I have to say, I really liked it. Enough so that I felt I sold the one I had too quickly as I know it will be extremely difficult to acquire another.

That said, I know of an operator sitting on one and I've been trying to get it out of him for several years. Maybe someday. But there's a good chance I'd keep this one if I got it. (He's also got 2 Computer Space games too).
 
As for Value, When they have sold, they have been from $2300 - $4000. There was one for sale on a website for $6500 but I don't know if it ever sold. There was a time about 5 years ago when I got mine that one sold on eBay for $3700 and other people thought "hey, I could use a spare $4K" so there were 3-4 available then. I was bummed because there was one within an hour's drive of me and it went on eBay because a friend of mine turned it down for $2K. "Missed it by that much..."
 
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