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Pinball museum auction arcade after closing12/23/2023 The Museum of Pinball recently opted liquidate its collection, attracting far higher bids than expected. It was a dream come true… until the high-rollers showed up. More than 1,000 games went up for sale, representing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for longtime hobbyists to supplement the remote corners of their stockpile with all sorts of offbeat rarities. But over the course of two weeks, owner John Weeks liquidated his entire catalogue due to the pandemic economic downturn. The Museum of Pinball in Banning, California (hence the commonly used nickname for the museum and its auction, “Banning”) had cultivated one of the largest hoards of vintage pinball machines, video arcade games, and other electro-mechanical devices designed to gobble up quarters in the world. The arcade collecting community was anticipating this auction for months. "That piece might be worth $100,000 in a couple of years." "I may have missed out on it," says Blasko. He topped out at an $8,000 purchase of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pinball machine, and claims to have had a huge bid in for Computer Space - widely regarded as the first commercial video arcade machine ever made - before getting out-maneuvered by another patron. What I do know is that Blasko purchased 37 machines at September's Museum of Pinball auction in Banning, California. Blasko is a crypto guy, and crypto guys, in my experience, are famously ambiguous when it comes to their wealth and influence.
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