![]() ![]() “Even though a lot were made, there’s only ever going to be less and less of them over time, unless it gets remade,” says Verwys. These days, a vintage Addams Family pinball machine will set a person back roughly $10,000 on the resale market-and that’s not including the cost of maintenance and upkeep owners need to spring for if they want to keep the game operational. “They might be married with some young kids, and they’ll think, ‘I’m going to buy a machine and put it down in the basement in my man-cave.’ And then of course they get another one because you never want just one.” “People who were in college 10 years before now have discretionary income,” says Sharpe. Now, much of the buying power in pinball is held by players with a bit of nostalgia. That’s a marvel not just because other “hit” games at the time were selling between 8,000 and 14,000 units, but because back then most pinball games were being sold to coin-op distributors or arcades rather than private collectors. Released in March 1992 by Bally Games and inspired by the 1991 live-action movie of the same name, The Addams Family is, to this day, the most popular and widely sold pinball machine of all time, moving more than 20,000 units. To game lovers, though, the best of all that ephemera is The Addams Family pinball machine. First introduced via a single-panel cartoon in The New Yorker in 1938, Chas Addams’ creepy clan has spawned multiple entertainment properties, including a surprisingly short-lived 1960s TV series, two beloved live-action movies from the ’90s, two recent animated kids films, an upcoming Netflix series based on the life of young Wednesday Addams, myriad books and collectibles, and even a Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and Morticia Addams. For more than 80 years, the Addams Family has enjoyed a delightfully macabre existence. ![]()
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