My point has been and always will be who will take up pinball after we are gone?
Kids today are just not interested in it the same way we were as kids, even my kids get jaded with the pins quickly as they would much rather play the playstation or xbpx or ipod whatever.
Maybe this might change but I think we will be the last generation of full on pinball collectors. I just can't see that many people getting into the hobby after we are gone.
if kids are exposed to it, they will have those fond memories, the same reason we buy them now. as i stated before, kids walk into our shop holding iphones, they catch a look at the pinball, and down goes the phone and in goes a dollar. and every time they come in next time with their parents they beg for them to give them another buck to play.
That is interesting, whenever I take the kids to timezone in the city or on the gold coast the only people playing pins are adults and this happens all the time.
Maybe your right but I just don't see it at the moment.
maybe this is where stern should use their brains as far as making a arcade only machine, and have ticket spool, so kids play it,
thats in an arcade situation, as arcades now are like gambling for kids and a pinball isnt,
they do need to adapt to that.
but all you guys talk about the cafe that had a pinball in it being a fond memory. its not really that different today, they do put their phones down to at least look at the pinball machine and try and figure it out. if they dont have the money to play it they sit their pointing and making up a game in their heads. its prety interesting, i think it was STEVESE from this forum came to our shop, he was amazed by the amount of interest in pinball, and Beaky when he comes to work on the machine in the shop he is just harassed by kids asking him how it works lol.
the problem with pinball isnt iphones is exposure, and in the case of arcades they haven't adapted. i bet if a pinball had a ticket spool that at the end of the game pooped out three tickets every kid would choose that over throwing a ball in a hoop to get three tickets.
expose a kid to it now like you all had, and bingo you keep it alive for longer.
