{"id":12264,"date":"2018-05-31T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:52:36","slug":"museum-to-sell-surplus-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2018\/05\/31\/museum-to-sell-surplus-games\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSEUM TO SELL SURPLUS GAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have a collection of nearly 1,300 machines it&#8217;s almost inevitable you will have a number of duplicates.\u00a0 The Pacific Pinball Museum is in that position, and with around 900 unique titles that leaves nearly 400 duplicate machines in their collection, all of which take up valuable storage space.<\/p>\n<p>So the Museum has decided to have a clear out of their surplus games by holding a sale on Saturday 23rd June, 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12268\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale-1024x547.jpg\" alt=\"Pinball machines in storage at the Pacific Pinball Museum\" width=\"850\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale-850x454.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/ppm-surplus-sale\/01-surplus-machines-sale.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinball machines in storage at the Pacific Pinball Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time of writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificpinball.org\/games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 130 machines<\/a> are available, ranging from a 1948 <em>Triple Action<\/em> &#8211; the Steve Kordek design which was the first to feature two flippers at the bottom of the playfield &#8211; through to two copies of the 1989 cocktail game, <em>Night Moves<\/em>.\u00a0 The machines are keenly-priced, with <em>Night Moves<\/em> machines going for $450 each and the others ranging from $200 (<em>Soccer<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Little League<\/em>,\u00a0<em>4 Aces<\/em> and <em>Monte Carlo<\/em>) to $1,500 (<em>Capt. Fantastic<\/em> and <em>F-14 Tomcat<\/em>).\u00a0 All prices attract the standard Californian 9.5% sales tax.<\/p>\n<p>The sale will take place at the Pacific Pinball Museum&#8217;s warehouse annex at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/V3Uek77nfjE2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1680 Viking Street<\/a> in Alemeda, California, starting at 10am and continuing until 4pm.\u00a0 Machines are sold as-is, and while they can be held for up to 30 days after the sale, buyers are responsible for pick-up and delivery.\u00a0 Proceeds will go to benefit the Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have a collection of nearly 1,300 machines it&#8217;s almost inevitable you will have a number of duplicates.\u00a0 The Pacific Pinball Museum is in that position, and with around 900 unique titles that leaves nearly 400 duplicate machines in their collection, all of which take up valuable storage space. So the Museum has decided &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[156,104,153,154,167],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alameda","tag-california","tag-pacific-pinball-museum","tag-ppm","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12270,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions\/12270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}