Quoted from cfh:Is there any interest in pre-ww2 games? specifically 1930s stuff? or is that just a waste of time and space to most people...?
To me, the wood rails right when you walk in are interesting from a nostalgia stand point. One of the helpers there showed my wife and I how one worked without flippers and how it was mostly mechanical with little electronics and showed under the playfield. That was interesting and great of that person to show that to us and explain it. But I was also eyeing that the "Junk Yard" game had just opened up and wanted to go play that more.
My personal opinion is that those really old ones are good to look at and get a tour of how they work once. But then on to the more modern machines to play while time permits. For the show, even though it is many hours, we want to fit in as much gaming as we can ... while we can. If, as MrBally said, there is another new building added, maybe make an area for the wood rails and older pins as more of a "museum" type setup with someone like we had that would show and explain how some of those old pins worked. Every once in a while, people need to take a break and a old time pin tour/seminar would be something really good to see during that "break time". Just a suggestion.
Like others have said though, if you are space limited, make room for more of the solid state era pins would be my vote.
Please keep doing it. Machines that had something go wrong with them or got out of adjustment were fixed quickly. My wife and I played many, many games from open until close both Saturday and Sunday with only a half hour break for lunch each day. We took it all in, had a blast, now we hurt from playing so much - something we will do over again next year and each year after that.
