16. Where can you see the hobby in 10 years?
Blokes (as most of us are at AP) my age will hopefully keep it going in their retirement. Aussie Pinball is a great way of collecting and passing on information about pins, sharing and developing collegiality amongst pinball collectors. The younger generation, I mean my son’s age, don’t seem too interested in the pins. Probably because they did not grow up with pins as part of their “wonder years”. I think there will always be a pool of hobbyist. The internet has been a great resource for connecting with those interested in pinball.
I am just so thankful that people like Michale Shalhoub, Tony and others collected machines in the 80s. I think of how many EMs were just dumped when solid state machines came in, then solid states were dumped when everyone wanted Space Invaders, etc.
