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The games cost 25-50 cents a play. over a year ago. Hundreds of Pinball and other gaming devices to play or just browse as there a large number of antique games to look at. If you might be considering buying an older machine for your game room, this is a great place to first check it out and compare to other machines.
Pinball machines are expensive to build, due to the materials they are made of along with the number of people involved in the design and creation process. There are also licenses to take into consideration, and this all leads to very expensive pinball machines.
If you have a newer pinball machine it is likely worth between $3,000-$5,000. If you have a vintage machine it could be worth anywhere from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands depending on the condition and game that it is.
Tim Arnold
It shut us for 12 weeks and restricted us from our ability to raise money,” explained Pinball Hall of Fame owner and operator Tim Arnold. “We’re only about 30 to 40 percent of where we were.”
Pinball was banned beginning in the early 1940s until 1976 in New York City. New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia was responsible for the ban, believing that it robbed school children of their hard earned nickels and dimes. La Guardia spearheaded major raids throughout the city, collecting thousands of machines.
Let’s hope you live in Las Vegas, because the greatest pinball machine of all time – Bally’s Pinball Circus – is perhaps the rarest pinball machine of all time, and isonly available to the public at the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame Museum.
There’s a lot of pricey Kiss merchandise available on eBay (and from the band’s own website), but one of the most sought-after and expensive items, a fully-restored, autographed 1979 pinball machine, can be yours right now for a mere — gulp! – $25,000.
Top 10 Most Expensive Pinball Machines in the World
5,913 sales covering 1,186 unique titles The “Kelley Blue Book” of Pinball! We are proud to announce our new free price guide page layout that allows BOTH mobile and laptop users to see ALL available data. Simply search the pinball on our “Price Guide” page, then click!
That includes $5 million in 2019 and $6.0 million in 2020. We estimate that this may only represent ~10% of all used pinball sales. About Us: PinballPrices.com launched just three years ago because there was a real data gap and understanding of what pinball machines were actually worth.
We only include pinball sales that are judged to be verified. More than 1/2 of our 2019 database is from Pinside.com sales. Ebay is also a good source for verified sales because lots of data are captured at the time of purchase including price, seller name, and seller location.