what game(s) have you gotten your money's worth out of?

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what game(s) have you gotten your money's worth out of?

what game(s) in your collection do you feel you've gotten your money's worth from? I don't mean buying and flipping, but playing the heck out of and the quarters you would have spent justifies the cost? For me that game is my Crazy Climber cocktail.. Thanks to the CC high score thread, I'm pumping credits like no tomorrow trying the "climb" the leaderboard. I've definitely exceeded the $300 I picked it up for, mebbe even the extra $350 I paid for the legs to make it complete :D Its nice to have 1 game earning its keep, the rest of the collection is just eye candy, heh. Once I get a fully working boardset, Pole Position will probably be a close second.

What about you guys? What's been your meat and potatoes game(s)? What do you play the most and have pumped enough credits in that has made it worth it?

Tom
 
I guess the only game I have that I have played enough that it would have paid itself off is my CarnEvil. I have played through that game more times than I can count and so has my wife and so has my nephews.
 
That would have been paid for restoration cost included and all? Nothing. Nothing I own probably ever will. I don't think I could put my games in the wild and reach that point on any of them... :/

Quick figuring on Assault:

cost to obtain $175
NOS joysticks ~$300
stereo upgrade stuff ~$25
HSS/multigame stuff ~$40
manual/flyer ~ $25

And I got a repro CP ($65 I think?) and 2 spare PCBs w/ multigames installed (~$200) and spare joystick stuff (~$100). Plus the repro CPO will be out soon (~$40?).

By that calculation I will need to play about 3,880 times for it to have been worth my while. xD And the above totals are pretty generous.

That may have to wait a bit tho, when all is said and done I'll need to put several thousand games on each of my pinballs. :/ lol/cry
 
I've probably gotten close to 1/3 of the money back on my DK cocktail just by bringing it to shows and getting free admission :D (most shows give you free admission if you bring a playable machine)
 
Ms. Pac-Man for me. I play it at least once everyday I'm home, and sometimes 10-20 games a day. Although now that I can finally get over 100,000 points on it my games last longer and I don't play nearly as many times a day.
 
put alot of credits into Gunsmoke , if the sky rained the coins i would of put in ,,,

It is the gunsmoke pcb , i use in my upright cab

Also 1942 , my friend beat that on 1 credit , with 7 men left !!!!
but until then it got pumped .

Digdug , Galaga , xevious , Qix
 
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