Of course most people I know are not as enthusiastic about pinball as we are, but I have experienced some exceptions:

I have successfully infected at least 4 people so badly that they bought pins.

When I introduced my godchild to pinball she was so keen on it she announced on the way home that she wanted to be a pinball designer when she grew up.

At my church there is always either an EM or an EE pin that I provide and swap out after about a year. The first one was Surf Champ and I wondered whether any of the kids would even look at it. In fact it was so popular I often couldn’t get on it myself. And equal numbers of boys and girls play. One point to note is that most kids at my church don’t have unlimited access to smartphones and games consoles so their attention span is long enough to acquire a new skill. And they still have this sense of wonderment of these amazing mechanical machines.