Omaha, NE
Quoted from sturner:I agree with you on that. It has to be something that can hold up for years without servicing. Maybe it's impossible to build a machine like that, maybe they just did a crappy job of it. I just don't think their aim was people looking to pick up pinball as a hobby, it was to get some clueless parents to pick this over a ping pong table without looking at the long term problems. Probably safe to call it predatory selling if it breaks as easily as some here claim.
For what they charge for these, if they're not going to be serviceable, they should be some form of Hyperpin-esque table. Even if it's proprietary and limited to one title, it'd be a better idea than The Pin. The intended market would be more wowed by the technology of it than they would care that it's "not real"...(but 95% of them would also go buy Pinball Arcade or a Zen table for $10).
