So I'm fairly new to the hobby, and one of my motivations to have my own machine has been access to unlimited playing. My pinball machine was quite inexpensive, so my game has already paid for itself from just the number of quarters I would have pumped in for all the play credits - the kids go through games quite quickly as well

Anyone else on here ever mentally factor in the credit "savings" when thinking about their pins? Just popped into my head today and wondered about those with large collections or owning pins for decades.

Yeah, there's an arcade in Va. Beach I was excited to go to based on the pinside map list, but the machines there were terribly dirty and faulty/broken, neglected etc. From what I hear the drive down to Flippers in NC is worth the trip. I'm glad to burn through quarters on machines that actually allow you to play the game