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?
Ooh.. i like the expanding of the figures!!
It can be argued that the Bally Bumper was a much simpler game than that of modern day, but i deliberately chose it as it introduced the bumper to the machine and so tooling, labour and extra materials have to be factored into that price.. despite this.. it was affordable and priced to SELL
