If you believe these screens are incidental, then you're oblivious. I would suggest they are the key to opening up pinball to a wider market and saving the game. Not only will they help draw in customers because of their visual appeal, but they really are integral to making the game accessible to a wider audience. These games are maps to the game play and explain to more inexperience player what the goals and awards are.

Let's face it--no one on this forum is the average player. We "get it", and if we don't, we can figure it out. Honestly, pinball is somewhat intimidating to the average person who doesn't know what to do, except aimlessly hit the flippers to keep the ball from draining. These monitors spell it out, and will make the game more inviting.

Evolve or die. Make pinball commercially viable via monitors and video, or pack it in. The monitors make the modern complex game appealing and accessible to the average person and are the games only chance of surviving as anything other than an antiquated passtime.

LOL. Yeah, that might help the poor schmucks like us who put them in their houses. But the average person who is going to pump a few bucks in at a time, the price of the game doesn't matter one bit.