Los Angeles, CA
Quoted from statsdoc:Face it, pinball requires skill and patience to learn that skill. That patience is mostly missing from today's kids. Even when I was much younger, pinball seemed like a game in which you randomly hit the ball around. It was frustrating to see it drain so quickly. I wasn't much interested in spending money on that option compared to Asteroids, Galaga, or other video games in which I could see how my skill and scores increased quickly. The same is true today. Pinball takes too much time to gain the necessary skills, so it will be ignored for the game that a player can see more immediate benefits. JMHO.
Yeah, there's some truth to that. But then I see kids playing their first-person shooters all day or those sports games that you need to go to school to learn (I spent a summer trying to learn FIFA 08 and my brain almost melted). If they can handle that complexity, why not pinball?
The reward factor for starters. I go nuts losing a buck in under a minute sometimes...
