Kids love pinball. Whenever the relos kids come over they bash away for hours at them. My wife met up with a freind recently and her kids loved them as well. Ever think kids maybe over video and looking for something new? I have kids simply amazed by my machines, most hadnt played a pin before.
Agree with lazy OPs putting kids off them. At my local superstrike there is TSPP, filthy, missing a flipper rubber, and other rubbers about to fall off. Kids wont put money in that a second time.