Number of games played a concern?

[in2pin]

Just wondering how much weight is given to the number of games played on a machine?
Is there a number where you say the machine has seen better days?
Back in the old days a car with 100,000 miles on it was considered a "high miler"! Just wondering if there's any guidelines/rule of thumb for pinball machines?

 

[WARLOCK]

If everything works, you enjoy it and it is fun, go for it.
If it has minimal playfield wear, or you don't care, go for it.
If you like what you see, you want it and can pay for it, go for it.

It doesn't seem to matter the mileage. If you like it and the price, play it.
Do what you want, when you want, if you can afford it and fix it once it breaks.

Pinball is a hobby and a fantastic one at that. I have never turned down a pin due to mileage.

 

[in2pin]

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Dave

 

[thewebexpert]

I personally only look at the playfield, I do not care how many plays, as long as the playfield looks good.. anything else can be replaced with ease and little cost .... (relatively speaking)

 

[bstock]

Number of plays seems to be a newer concept. New Stern games that have spent their lives in a collectors game room generally don't see a lot of wear. A lot of people who collect these newer games expect them to look brand new. Low plays is often a good indication of that.

When it comes to older games from say the 70's, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a game with low plays. These games were money makers. People didn't buy them and put them in their homes commonly like they do now. Also not many games of this era even had a way of keeping track of how many games were played.

As suggested above, the important thing to look at is the playfield. If the game was kept clean and well maintained, it should be in good shape. The easiest way to wear out a playfield is by not keeping it clean and not replacing pinballs regularly.

If the machine is a high miler that hasn't been well taken care of, it will show.


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[Chris Bardon]

The other thing to keep in mind is that anytime people use the "mileage" in an ad, it's immediately suspect. Resetting the audits on a game is pretty trivial, so there's nothing to say that it's actually an accurate measure of the number of games played on a machine anyway. That being said, I like being able to audit my games just to see how many plays that I've put on them, but that's more just for my own interest.

 

[mwong168]

The only way to sort of tell if a game has low or high plays is observing high wear areas such as pop bumpers, ball drops and the infamous shooter lane pic. Audits can also be reset when updating code via USB on newer Sterns or swapping out a ROM chip on older B/W games so don't use this as a gauge. Buying a game based on number of plays is as stupid as caring if a HUO game comes with the original bill of sale.

 

[luch]

Condition is king !

 

[meegis]

I look at the game physically. As already mentioned. If the game has 1500 plays on a dirty playfield and old balls, it will be worse off than a game with 6000 plays thats been cleaned and properly taken care of. I have seen (and owned) routed games that are cleaner than HUO games that get left alone. I have seen some overly lagre HUO collections that sit for too long at a time causing issues of dirt, dust and other stuff.

Even if audits are true, the proof is in the pudding.

 

[Malibu-SS]

I purchased an Avatar from a friend of mine,He bought it new from Stern.It has over 10000 plays and still looks like it is brand new playfield,cab etc.
The only thing he had to replace was one switch that failed