# Pinball Machine Sighting in $40 Million Colorado Mansion

**Source:** Knapp Arcade  
**Type:** article  
**Published:** 2022-11-29  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.knapparcade.org/pinball-machine-sighting-in-40-million-colorado-mansion

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## Analysis

A blog post documenting a luxury Colorado mansion ($40M) sale that includes a home arcade featuring four pinball machines: Stern Terminator 3, Bally Addams Family, Bally Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Bally Safe Cracker, along with Skee-Ball and a House of the Dead arcade cabinet. The author humorously notes the arcade is modest compared to the estate's other amenities (shooting ranges, cowboy town, ice-cream parlor, etc.).

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] A 450-acre Colorado estate near Vail sold for $40 million and includes a home arcade with 4 pinball machines — _Blog author citing Wall Street Journal real estate listing; includes specific property details and sale price_
- [HIGH] The arcade contains Stern Terminator 3, Bally Addams Family, Bally Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Bally Safe Cracker — _Direct observation from the WSJ real estate listing by the blog author_

### Notable Quotes

> "Compared to the rest of the place, the home arcade is meager lol. At least they have one."
> — **Knapp Arcade (blog author)**
> _Humorous commentary on the proportional scale of the arcade relative to the $40M estate's other extravagant amenities_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Stern Terminator 3 | game | Pinball machine in the Colorado mansion arcade |
| Bally Addams Family | game | Pinball machine in the Colorado mansion arcade |
| Bally Creature from the Black Lagoon | game | Pinball machine in the Colorado mansion arcade |
| Bally Safe Cracker | game | Pinball machine in the Colorado mansion arcade |
| Knapp Arcade | organization | Blog documenting pinball machine sightings in real estate listings |
| Wall Street Journal | organization | Source of the real estate listing featuring the Colorado mansion |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Pinball machine sightings in real estate listings, Luxury home arcades
- **Secondary:** Vintage pinball machine collecting

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.7) — Lighthearted and humorous tone throughout; author expresses enthusiasm about finding pinball machines in unexpected places, though gently mocks the arcade's modest scale relative to the estate's extravagance

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## Transcript

It's been a few weeks since I've found a random appearance of pinball machines in a real estate listing, but I found one this morning in the Wall Street Journal. I thought that the Yankee Candle and Melissa and Doug family houses that I wrote about a while ago were extravagant, but this one blows them away.

This 450-acre Colorado estate that comes with two shooting ranges, a mini cowboy-style town, saloon, pools, rock wall, indoor tennis court, movie theatre, more buildings than I can count and an ice-cream parlor has just sold for $40 million.

Compared to the rest of the place, the home arcade is meager lol. At least they have one. It includes 4 pinball machines...Stern Terminator 3, Bally Addams Family, Bally Creature from the Black Lagoon and Bally Safe Cracker, Skee-Ball and a Sega House of the Dead arcade shooter.

A Massive Colorado Estate With Two Shooting Ranges and Its Own Ice-Cream Parlor Sells for $40 Million

Located near Vail, it is one of the priciest homes to trade in the area

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-massive-colorado-estate-with-two-shooting-ranges-and-its-own-ice-cream-parlor-sells-for-40-million-11669735843?mod=hp_major_pos1#cxrecs_s

_(Acquisition: raw_text, Enrichment: v1)_

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