And if you compare games, you can see why pinballs are no longer profitable to operators. If you blew your whole 1936 wage on pinballs at 5c per game, you would play 34, 260 games compared to 47, 000 games in 2012 at $1 a pop. This is roughly the same so the relative price per game has not changed much over time. The cost of a machine however has gone up 100 times. Who would want to be an operator with those numbers?
