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The lit playfield of the X-Files pinball machine, with Mulder and Scully art beneath the flippers

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Pinball Trader has been moving machines since 2018: wide-bodies, Stern licenses, and the odd one-off nobody else would touch. Here is what David is hunting, how he ranks the tables worth owning, and what has already found a new game room.

Buying

Most Wanted

Games David wants to buy or trade for. If one of these is in your basement, let’s talk.

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Rankings

Top 40 Collectable Pinball Games

David’s ranking of the tables most worth owning.

  1. Legends of Valhalla 2022 · American Pinball
  2. Houdini 2020 · American Pinball
  3. Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure 1993 · Williams · Wide Body
  4. Medieval Madness 1997, 2015 · Williams
  5. Theatre of Magic 1995 · Bally
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  1. Ghostbusters 2016 · Stern
  2. Led Zeppelin 2021 · Stern
  3. Demolition Man 1994 · Williams · Wide Body
  4. Monster Bash 1998 · Williams
  5. The Munsters 2019 · Stern
  6. Creature from the Black Lagoon 1992 · Bally
  7. Indiana Jones (& the Crystal Skull) 2008 · Bally
  8. The Shadow 1994 · Bally
  9. Ripley's Believe It or Not 2004 · Stern
  10. Star Wars 2021 · Stern
  11. The Twilight Zone 1993 · Bally · Wide Body
  12. Mandalorian
  13. The Addams Family 1994 · Williams
  14. X-Files
  15. Apollo 13 1995 · Sega
  16. Judge Dredd 1993 · Bally · Wide Body
  17. Scared Stiff 1996 · Bally
  18. Star Trek: The Next Generation 1993 · Williams · Wide Body
  19. Metallica 2013 · Stern
  20. Lord of the Rings 2003 · Stern
  21. Walking Dead 2014 · Stern
  22. AC/DC 2012 · Stern
  23. Tales of the Arabian Nights 1996 · Williams
  24. Who Dunnit? 1995 · Bally
  25. James Cameron's Avatar 2010 · Stern
  26. The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard 1994 · Data East
  27. Disney's TRON Legacy 2012 · Stern
  28. Congo 1995 · Williams
  29. Maverick 1994 · Data East
  30. Cirqus Voltaire 1997 · Bally
  31. Johnny Mnemonic 1995 · Williams
  32. Spider-Man 2007 · Stern
  33. Road Show 1994 · Williams · Wide Body
  34. Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 1993 · Data East
  35. Family Guy 2007 · Stern
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Sold

Games Sold

Machines that have already found new homes. Kept here as a collector’s reference.

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Pinball Wizard Blog

Stories from the Playfield

Pinball in the movies, the first flipper games, and the strange machines in between.

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Bigfoot Games

Bigfoot Games

By David Hatcher Childress Bigfoot in Pinball The story of bigfoot in pinball begins in 1975. This is when a...

Early Flipper Pinball Games

Early Flipper Pinball Games

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