I owned a pinball machine for many years. However, I would never intentionally buy one again. A guy I used to work with owned a DK machine. One thing we both agreed on we were quite relieved they were not in our possession anymore. I came out about even on the deal he had to give his away. I enjoyed having it but the thing was just a pain to move around.
I have considered building one with an LCD but I would be just back where I started with a giant thing that I rarely use. I would rather any sort of thing like that be in the possession of someone who genuinely wanted one and could take care of it. I have been toying with the idea of getting rid of my 35+ years of console collection, with 50-200 games each. Just to have my space back.
One major downside to what you are talking about is HLSL is starting to get to the point where if you had the right info you could simulate each monitor type and set the defaults for games to be 'factory'. But the boards and the monitors and cabs for many items are now three different things if they even exist anymore. Probably only a few popular/unique games would still be in one piece. But many others may not even exist in their original forms anymore and are little more than boards.
Even back in the heyday of arcades you would see 'the generic' basically some other game stripped of its original artwork refurbished controls and the operator would just swap boards in and out. Just to keep from having yet another box in inventory.
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Re: I can kind of understand why so many beautiful classic arcade cabinets were smashed and trashed.
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