Gonna have to disagree with you on this one. There is increasingly more pinball found on location to play, especially over the past few years. Several large locations just in the Chicago area. During this time, Emporium went from 1 to 3 locations, Headquarters opened 2 locations, Logan arcade, Level 257, Punch Bowl, Chicago Street in Joliet, etc. Not to mention many of the smaller locations. The evidence suggests otherwise. Maybe you need to get out in the wild a little more

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Playing in the wild is hardly a dying breed, especially when there has been so much recent growth. I see and know plenty of people who get out there and play on location but have very few to no pinball at home and many of them are younger than me. Location pinball will never return to what it was in the 90's though, that much we can agree on.

That's unfortunate and I guess I'm not surprised. With the exchange rate plus import taxes, I don't see how it could be viable to operate new Stern games there which would leave you with more older games and older games typically require more maintenance. Operating new games in the US is expensive enough and the operator has to rely on a games residual value to even make it work here. The days of games fully paying for themselves are long gone. Hopefully things turn around for you over there. Maybe once Heighway get's their legs under them and they start pumping out product in quantities, there will be a more cost effective alternative for Europe than Stern.

Yeah, it's obvious by the responses that it's not universal and Chicago's no Portland, but we have seen a nice bump here. Stern's success can't be exclusively attributed to the home collector either though. And you're right, it's easy to get spoiled with so many good basement collections around.

Now back on topic, waiting for DP to deliver, so we can get out there and play some TBL on location.