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Before the first internet bubble of early 2000's when a lot of young people suddenly got lucky rich by being a codemonkey at the right place and time regular people could buy these games.  Once foolish millionaires and Ebay met it was game over for the rest of us.

I turned down a good condition Addams Family in 1997 that was being taken off location by the route operator.  He saw me playing it all the time and we talked as he was pulling it and he said he would shop it and take it to my house with a liftgate truck, for *$1900* Of course I didn't have it.  Popped by his warehouse that was running out of room and could have taken my pick of almost any system 11 game for $750, think he wanted $1200 for Funhouse though.

All I ended up with was a pre-production Whirlwind diamond plate test game.  I could kick myself for not grabbing a Cyclone, Earthshaker and Diner for $2000 at the same time.....$2000 for ALL 3.

Its possible these guys got their games when they were nearly new for a song.  Well, sub $2k for most of the games just 3 or 4 years old.

If interested there are at least 3 Medieval Madness machines on Ebay right now, one as cheap as $16000 for an opening bid.