It’s cool but I also roll my eyes when these companies act like they can replicate real pinball or replace it. That will simply never happen. These are simulators at best.

“We are doing digital pinball. It’s a growing category. Like home-arcades, we saw a big slice of space. We are taking the skill play of a $10000-$12000 machine and putting it into a box that can retail for $500-$600.”

Thanks for sharing. I think this could have the potential to bring new people to the hobby. However, as someone who has an Arcade1Up arcade machine, they are okay but not great. I guess you get what you pay for.

"I caught up with Scott Bachrach, the enigmatic CEO of Tastemakers"

LOL

These machines aren't meant for 95% of Pinsiders. They are doing very well with casuals who wouldn't otherwise own a real machine. The only negative you are going to see from these on the enthusiast level (Pinside) is that perhaps some of those B/W game prices will creep up when more people who started out on a virtual pin want to have the real thing.

Forbes has a system of unpaid bloggers that they call Contributors, similar to Huffington Post. It's still interesting that this made it to their system, but this is essentially just a bigger name on the top of this one guy's blog.

https://www.joshsteimle.com/writing/how-being-a-forbes-contributor-works.html