About Poll: How much did your 1st pinball game cost?

[sleepy]

I saw this on the Nirvana front page and I couldn't vote on it but I would.
My first game of pinball cost 5 cents in 1958. I was 4 years old.
The tables were in a leaky corrogated tin shack in the back of a
Kiddyland Summer Carnival-style amusement park along with my first look at an arcade shooting gallery. It cost 5 cents too.
I can't remember the two tables I played that day by name or manufacturer,
but I remember they were lit up like a Christmas Tree and were designed to return your nickel if you won but
no more than your nickel. It wasn't a payout/gambling setup.
If you continued on until you hit the next winning score then you also earned a Replay.

5 cents wasn't among the choices in the poll!
Folks, you really should go Back to the Future.

 

[tiltjlp]

Something must not have shown up right for you Sleepy, because 5 cents is the first of 13 choices. Possibly only 10 choises show up when the poll is displayed on the front page. 5 cent games in 1958 probably were fairly uncommon. While I did play a few 5 cent games, they were either in 1949 or the early 1950s. You might be able to access the poll, and all the choices, from the left menu bar here.

 

[JonPurpleHaze]

I just finished fixing the poll John, 5 cents was there previously but it got deleted somehow, I added it back. Someone actually had voted for 5 cents previously. It's entirely possible that sleepy couldn't vote in the poll, I have it set to no close date but it was showing today as the close date.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

my three games cost $100 each in 1995. they were all EM's from 1974-1975. i was able to recondition gottlieb's atlantis and william's big ben but william's magnetron had some funky wiring that i could never get sorted out. my buddy still has the PF to big ben and hopefully i'll turn it into a coffee table one day.

oh, you meant... duh.

okay, i got into pinball very late in life- somewhere around 1993 i remember getting hooked on STTNG and CFTBL for 25¢ a play.

 

[zerhino]

50cents, I'm pretty young...

 

[tiltjlp]

I just finished fixing the poll John, 5 cents was there previously but it got deleted somehow, I added it back. Someone actually had voted for 5 cents previously. It's entirely possible that sleepy couldn't vote in the poll, I have it set to no close date but it was showing today as the close date.

Thanks for the assist Jon. When I saw Sleepy's post I used the left menu to look at the poll, and it still showed the 5 cent option. I would never have thought to see it was expired.

 

[davidsss]

But the poll didn't include 20c which was the price in Australia for years. I'm old enough that they were 10c or 3 games for 20c when I first played them.

DS

 

[tiltjlp]

But the poll didn't include 20c which was the price in Australia for years. I'm old enough that they were 10c or 3 games for 20c when I first played them.

DS

I probably should have done a little research on world currancy before I made the poll. There are other invalid amounts there too, I'm sure. Next time I'll know better.

 

[Popotte]

In France, 0,20 FF until about 1965, but I really don't know exactly how much 0,20 FF gives in $ (about 0,05 $).