Off the top of my head (because it's a small project that I recently had done),
I was able to get my 1930 payphone to work properly with being in the hobby
being a big reason. I already had a transformer, a bridge rectifier, and made a
small wiper and wiper board work in such a way so incoming calls and transmitting
calls by dropping in a dime works perfectly just as it did in the old days..

Pinball has improved my problem-solving abilities, and I have a lot more friends now.

I don't know if it's pinball or my boxing equipment, but in my mid 50's and the last couple of years my reactions have sped up to the point that i rarely fail to catch the things i drop. Knives caught by the handle, food caught before it hits the ground.

I can't remember being this fast before. I mean i probably was when i was a kid, but it is very noticeable.

It's made me better at scarifying other enjoyments in life in order to be able to afford it. Expensive passion that's for sure.

My pinball experience made me much better at flipping people off

I made many new friends in this great hobby.

For me its been the social aspect. Meeting and becoming good friends with
a wide variety of people. Mostly at shows and local collectors.
Steve

Agreed. it's making me a slightly better person to be around and i think a little more of others feelings than i used to. Being a host of a weekly comp will do that.

scarify1
/ˈskarɪfʌɪ,ˈskɛːrɪfʌɪ/
verb
1.
cut and remove debris from (a lawn) with a scarifier.
2.
make shallow incisions in (the skin), especially as a medical procedure or traditional cosmetic practice.
"she scarified the snakebite with a paring knife"
Definitions from Oxford Languages

Hope you are not using the word for the second meaning.

It probably helped get the job I have today. Much easier than fixing pinballs.

Having games has made me popular with a younger crowd who like to come over and play late into the evening thus keeping my wife awake with the racket.
Spending hours on fixing games has interfered with completing the projects in my house.
I wouldn't give them up for anything.

Hang on, don't you fix people nowadays? Or did i get the wrong impression?

You probably got the right impression.

I fix the things that fix people.

That's cool. I used to work for an American company here called Technicon. Blood analyses and stuff.

I have an easy life. I do have a customer dropping in this morning on a Saturday morning to pick up one of these stills, but packing all the parts up for an hour and loading it on his ute will be all i do besides emails all weekend.

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