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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 240279" data-attributes="member: 446">Well, I'm not wrong, but I do hope you're right that a golden age is coming <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.  (Though as someone who lived the 1990's golden age, I'm not sure if my heart can take that much fun again as I'm not a kid any more...)Have you ever asked those barcade owners why they're not buying more new Stern machines?  Are they that much more expensive than a restored/refurbished WMS/Williams machine, assuming that those are the legacy games you're talking about?  Or have they tried Sterns, and the hipsters (it sounds like we're talking about hipsters here) don't want them, but the WMS machines instead?I'm no economist, and I guess there hasn't been that much inflation in 20 years, but I remember new WMS machines costing around $5000 back in around 1996.  My point being that new Pro-edition Sterns probably aren't more expensive than new machines were in the 1990's, if my facts are correct anyway.</blockquote>

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