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The holy grail of the sale could be a Pirates of the Caribbean collectors edition pinball machine from 2018, associated with the Disney franchise, which the auction house said could fetch up to $35,000.

The collection could be worth as much as $7 million, according to the auctioneer handling the sale, which includes some machines more than 60 years old. The auction will be conducted both online and at the museum itself, where in 2015 a Guinness World Record was set for the most people playing pinball simultaneously: 331. Now, the Museum of Pinball in Banning, California, one of the largest museums devoted to pinball machines, is about to do something that once might have seemed inconceivable: It will start on Friday to auction off more than 1,700 arcade games. Inside an unremarkable warehouse near Palm Springs, California, hundreds of pinball machines once beckoned arcade game aficionados from far and wide, their blinking lights and coin slots a throwback to a time long before Xbox.īut then came the coronavirus pandemic, and the game, one that the museums owner said was already a losing proposition because of the economic climate and the cost of real estate and insurance, was over.

Pinball museum auction after closing its