Quoted from japespin:

When most people come over to my house, they ooh and ahh upon first look at my pins, maybe play a game or two, then move on to the Skee Ball, arcade cabinet, and slot machine for the rest of the night. In general, I think awareness of the pinball hobby is growing, but gameplay is still too complex for most people's tastes to want to delve deeper into it. They flip for a few minutes, have no idea what's going on, then move on.
I try my best to get my friends and family into it, but they just don't get it the way I do. It is what it is.

Quoted from grantopia:

I think part of what people experience with kids is a factor of their kids growing up around games. I started collecting games before our son was born, so he has been around them his whole life. He will occasionally play, but there just isn't any novelty to it for him. His friends will come over and think its cool and love to play, but it's just another day to him ha.

Quoted from Pinfidel:

My 16 y/o daughter's boyfriend's (God I hate saying that) parents came over our house about 4 months ago for the 1st time. They walk into the game room and their jaws hit the floor.
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED PINBALL MACHINES! EVER SINCE I WAS A KID! I HAD NO IDEA THEY WERE STILL BEING MADE! WHERE DID YOU GET THESE!?
I gave him the generic... Oh, you can find them on Craigslist, Ebay and a few sites out there.
Fast forward to last night, I got my GnR LE all set up and the boyfriend sends his dad a few videos. Later that evening as he's saying goodbye I get, "What's the website you use to find your machines? My dad wants to know."
Now I know this guy is serious and not just nostalgic. He's got money, so he'll be buying a few machines.
This was the point I made on page 1 of this thread. There are tons of people out there who don't even know pinball machines are still being made. And when they see all the RGB LEDs and the video screens and the under cabinet lights popping off, they go nuts!
So I definitely believe pinball is making a huge resurgence. People just have to see the machines that have been made over the last 10 years with all of their technology.
Can you imagine what pinball machines will have in them for technology and gimmicks and toys and interact ability 25 years from now?
Yeah, this hobby isn't going anywhere.