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I Am Happy With the Pinball Industry as it is Today

By o-din

7 years ago


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    #24 7 years ago

    It's been a long, long time since pinball has been this healthy. I think you have to go back to the early '90s to find a time when pinball manufacturers were so stable and there was an expectation that the next game(s) coming out would be good. In the early 2000s, things were so wildly up and down between releases, and the economy was just as shaky.

    I think a huge part of today's resurgence comes from the '70s and '80s arcade brats coming into money as well. I wonder if the '90s kids will keep things rolling and expanding the market or if the '70s and '80s kids will need to be the majority of the market. I would think that people in their 30s to 50s now could be in pinball buying mode for a good decade or two.

    #28 7 years ago
    Quoted from o-din:

    If you don't like spending a dollar to play a newer game, there are still plenty of older ones that can be played for a quarter or fifty cents.. And at my place I even have some that takes nickels.
    If all that's too rich for your blood, then it may be best to find another way to amuse yourself.

    We have nickel arcades with pinball too (modern games are $0.15), but I don't think that's common for most the world these days.

    #30 7 years ago
    Quoted from o-din:

    Modern games are fifteen cents? I didn't know you could set them up for that. Then you'd need custom cards as well. I guess where there's a will, there's a way.

    It takes one nickel per credit, set to 3 credits per game. It probably reads as 75 cents, I haven't paid attention.

    #61 7 years ago

    The IFPA has been a massive driver for growth in the hobby.

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