I'm older. My 1st job at 14 was working at a swim club our neighbor owed. This was 1974. For $1.50 an hour my duties were to skim dead squirrels out of the pools, fix umbrellas that wouldn't raise and maintain the pins and record the play meter total. Bonus was I could play for free and swim an hour a day and get paid.

When he showed me how to lift a PF to check a dead flipper, I was enthralled. The smell of an EM never leaves you with a PF up. The wiring and all the relays looked overwhelming. Caught that same smell 34 years later when I bought my 1st game "Flying Carpet".

Newer games, amusing but not for me. I'll drop quarters but lose interest quick after 2-4 minutes on ball #1 trying to figure out what I should shoot at next. I don't want to spend 5 minutes trying to decipher what the instruction card says before dropping my coins.

Yeah, I'm old but feel free to walk on my lawn. I won't bitch.