I recently saw one of these ’70s made for the home market pinball machines on Facebook Marketplace offered for sale for $300 – which is rather outrageous since I picked up my 1976 Bally Hang Glider project EM pinball machine for $240.
I suppose a toy collector might find value in this plastic pinball machine but not a coin-op pinball machine collector. Just look how bent over the players are in the commercial trying to play this thing.
Manufacturers have has a sad history of trying to create a stripped-down and less costly version of pinball machines for the home market. The problem is they run up against fine and superior used machines that are readily available if you start looking around.
Brunswick sold a few home pinball machines back in the 70s which were closer to the real deal than the plastic Coleco toy.
Bally tried the home market in the 70s with a home edition of Fireball and Evel Knievel. In total four home pins were released.
Stern pinball has recently experimented with the home market and has released a few titles in their “Pin” line of “new stylish, affordable and fun pinball machine designed and engineered for the home” machines that sell for $4,000 which is a lot higher than some used machines and not that much less than a regular arcade ready machine.