Quoted from Anony:Pretty much every virtual pinball system calls them tables too... I don't get why it bugs the oldschool players so much. I guess just a way of gatekeeping or making themselves feel special?
I'm not that old school but it twitches my eye because unless you live in a cartoon house, an angled table is useless. And pinball machines are angled by design.
Which is not to say the derelicts don't become laundry and parts collectors like any old crap table could... but then that would mean they aren't being used as entertainment and game machines as intended anymore, wouldn't it?
Try playing poker on your pinball machine. No? Well then it's not a table*
*(I guess I could almost get away with that on my Black Hole, but as most BH owners will tell you, that game almost loathes being a functional machine in the first place ha ha)