I owned a pinball machine (Stars). It was interesting at first. Another guy I worked with owned a donkey kong machine he bought from some prize money. We bot

I owned a pinball machine (Stars). It was interesting at first. Another guy I worked with owned a donkey kong machine he bought from some prize money. We both sold these things. They are seriously cool to own. But after awhile the attraction of them is not worth the burden of owning one. Also they are not really meant for home use. These things are tanks. They weigh a decent amount. So moving them around to clean them up is a chore. Depending on the condition of what you get you may need to be doing a decent amount of that. If you move you need to set up some decent logistics on how you are going to get it out of your existing place and into your new one (seriously stay ground floor if you can if you own one). Then there is maintenance. The machine I owned had at least 3 different parts that were decently difficult at the time to source (internet probably changed that). It had another 5-10 electrical/mechanical issues that needed to be fixed because of the previous arcade owners shoddy work. Also some of these things are getting up to 50+ years old. So they are going to need a decent amount of rework for parts that have finally given out way past their EoL. Some of them which no one makes anymore so you have to part scavenge more broken machines. Also you really better really like that pinball game. As unlike a say a cab you where with some work you can switch out the game. Now with something like the VP tables with a nice screen and some decent switches you can get close to the real thing and switch the game out. Its nice but not the same as the real thing. I drop a quarter into a machine every few years and remember why I dont buy these things and just rent them for a couple of quarters for a few mins.