Winchester Mystery House
game"there is not a single person that has offered $20,000 for a Winchester Mystery House. My friend is trying to sell his... I would say 18. The game walks."
Winchester Mystery House is worth about $18,000, not the $20,000 some claim
"The shots are really hard. And for some of you, that might be what you want, and you're going to get that. But even watching these guys play, you can start to see just the difference between the two. Just a higher level of frustration in how often the ball drains on the left side, but more than that, how difficult the shots are. And I think they made a really tight game. And that's going to be appealing to very good players, and it might be very frustrating to the more casual player."
Winchester has everything needed to find buyers despite difficult shots, and the tight gameplay appeals to good players but frustrates casual players
"I would take like five to seven grand sell your spot... you just got a $12,000 Winchester for five grand because you just sold your spot"
People should scalp their Winchester Mystery House spots for $5-7k profit
"I don't know what they're doing over at barrels. I sometimes it feel like they need to just slow down a little bit. Pause like do it right. I called it the spaghetti incident. What are you what's happening underneath Winchester?"
Barrels of Fun needs to slow down and fix production quality issues
"I think everyone looked at that topper preorder as a bad move. You know, I don't really see people say that a lot about barrels, but I do feel like David's move there, it was uncharacteristic of him. And it's not how this company normally operates. And it does feel like a weird cash grab moment where there's like a cash flow issue."
Winchester topper preorder was a bad cash grab move
"if you can get $5,000 on top of the MSRP for Winchester's Mystery House, you sell it. You pocket the $5,000"
People should scalp Winchester Mystery House spots immediately for $5000 premium rather than hold
"That is not the game is on the line. That is a staged representation of what a pinball line is. That's not on the line... They just put playfields in a line on rotisseries and are telling us the game's on the line."
Winchester line video was staged marketing nonsense
"Sell the damn spot. Put the $3,000 in your pocket and just sell the spot because you will be able to get this game in four months for less than $11,600... If people think this game is not going to show up for sale down the road, you're wrong. If people think this game is going to go up in value, I think you're wrong."
Winchester buyers should sell their spots for profit rather than wait
"This is good. This is healthy for pinball. Y'all need to stop complaining when someone is willing to pay more money for our games. Isn't this what you want to buy something that is so damn hot that someone will spend thousands more for it?"
Winchester scalping is healthy for pinball
"On the boutique front we just got Winchester's Mystery House. A lot of excitement right. Sold 525 games in two days. That is a great indicator of where the market is at."
Winchester's Mystery House sold 525 games in two days, showing strong market demand for boutique games
"I think there's a starving bunch of collectors out there that would have slept with any girl that bought them a drink at the bar. That's what I think. You know what I'm saying and like when a girl walks up to the bar and you haven't been laid in months and buys you a drink. If that girl is a six you're looking at her like she's a nine. Now I'm not saying you know Winchester is a six. But what I'm saying is you've got thousands of pinball collectors that haven't been laid by a game in years. And Winchester's mystery house just bought them a drink."
Winchester Mystery House was perfectly timed for desperate collectors
"If I were a guessing man, and this is just my guess, I think this game is going to lose hype the moment Beetlejuice comes out. And I think this game's got a while to go in the code department."
Winchester Mystery House will lose hype when Beetlejuice releases and has code completion issues
"We are finally getting a limited game that feeds the exact thing that collectors are starving for. And when you're starving for something, you will eat something that is off the ground."
Winchester Mystery House success is due to collector starvation for limited/unique games
"Everybody's observations of what it's like to play this game are very, very premature. Nobody's had this game in a home environment, in an intimate setting. Nobody's put an hour uninterrupted on this game."
Winchester Mystery House hype is premature - nobody has really played it enough to give valid opinions
"You are not going to hop on this game and have a kinetic connection the way you felt when you played Elton John or Harry Potter. Trust me, it doesn't shoot that well."
Winchester Mystery House doesn't have immediate kinetic connection like Keith Elwin games
"So yeah, I would say like for 95% of people, Winchester will be a far more rewarding, rewarding at the end of the day, pinball ownership experience."
Winchester Mystery House will be a more rewarding ownership experience than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 95% of people
"I think the phrase I heard, and I've been saying this to people when they ask me how the game is, it's a car all game. Like it plays like a Karl DeAngelo game."
Winchester Mystery House is unique, challenging, and nails the haunted house theme but plays like a difficult Karl DeAngelo game
"For those of you wondering if it's worth 11.6, I think it is... This game is 100% what I love to look for in a pinball machine, which is a world under glass... I think this game is going to go up in value."
Winchester from Barrels of Fun is worth the $11,600 price and will increase in value
"the art on this Winchester game, it's all right. It's not great. Like if Stern made this game or Spooky made this game or JJP made this art package, y'all be railing on them. But all of a sudden, it looks amazing."
The Winchester Mystery House art package is mediocre and would be criticized if made by major manufacturers
"This game is not going to go up in value. This is not going to be the next Evil Dead... I think people are going to regret committing the money before seeing Beetlejuice."
Winchester Mystery House will not hold its value and people will regret buying it when Beetlejuice is revealed
"The light show is beautiful. The world under glass is amazing... But even watching these guys play, you can start to see just a higher level of frustration in how often the ball drains on the left side. But more than that, how difficult the shots are."
Winchester's Mystery House has excellent production values but shots are too difficult for casual players
"I would take like $5,000 to $7,000. Sell your spot because a year from now when all these games are out and Barrels moves on to their next game, I don't think Winchester is going to go above, much above like $11,600. What happened to you guys? Get some guts. Do some scalping. It's fun."
People should scalp their Winchester Mystery House spots for $5,000-7,000 profit instead of being honorable
"it looks like old spooky pinball like glue gun days with wires going everywhere. There's not even like wiring harnesses keeping this stuff together."
Winchester production quality looks amateurish compared to other manufacturers
"I think that is hugely indicative of how the collectors in this hobby just want something unique. Want something different."
Collectors want unique and different games, evidenced by Winchester's sellout and lack of resale