In 1974, my dad brought home a 1972 Williams FAN-TAS-TIC pinball machine. I thought I had died and gone to heaven! I was 12 at the time and already getting pretty good at pinball. But having our own "real" machine took things to another level. It took nickels, dimes and quarters (10c for one play, 3 for a quarter)
A few months later Tommy, the movie was released and pinball really took off. We were definitely the coolest house in the neighborhood that year. (Among the adults and kids)
Fast forward to about 1976 and I found another FAN-TAS-TIC machine still in service at a small motel arcade. I put 1 quarter in it and played it until I max'ed out the number of credits (which as I remember was 38) and walked away from it. I don't know how many times I rolled the score counter over
Fun times!
We only sold that machine 3 years ago because we were moving my mom (now 89) from "the family farm" into a smaller place. I was sad to see it go, but I didn't have room for it either.