Im 21 and I own 4 pins. None are the new big dollar pins, but it's still something... A lot of my friends doesn't even think of pinball as something that's still in this world.. However they all enjoy and gather around when they are at my place... But paying big bucks (Hell they think my pins are expensive(and so do I)) is something that I don't believe they would do.
I don't know if video game themes would get them to play the pin.. Why not just keep playing the video game? It's also a matter of space, many young ones doesn't have a house either, and jamming a few pinball machines inside an apartment can be tough.

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Why do people associate video games with young people? The target market for video games is 10-50 year-olds. The target market for pinball machines is 40+ year-olds? Maybe that's what's wrong with pinball. I'm 48, and I love God of War, Castlevania, Uncharted, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, Arkham, Assassins Creed, Mortal Kombat, Injustice, Infamous, and so on. I know a lot of guys my age who do, too. I don't play online, but I still play the "stories."

Because the majority isn't the 40-50 year olds.

I would so be into this, but yeah i dont think the demographics match up yet, maybe a few more years and more accumulation of disposable income for the younger crowd. But a WoW pin, RE, Zelda, MGS, MK, all would be AWESOME, i would so be in on these.

Halo, definitely.

Cool topic Strange....I'd definitely be in for a full fledged Samus Aran pin.....plenty to go with on that one!

I am a big fan of modern shooters (not FPS's) but bullet hell awesomeness and some classics of the genre.....so much to work with as far as art and rule sets. Sure we have F14 and Airborne....but something more fantastical would be balls out cool.image-688.jpgimage-999.jpg

How about a pin based on the videogame,The Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection?

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Missed that post.

How about Contra?

Uncharted would be another excellent option.

I think it would be cool to have a classics team-up sort of pin. Centipede, Robotron, Burgertime, Dig Dug, Galaga....

It seems like someone would try to capitalize on the Lego or Minecraft stuff too for the family friendliness
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Don't forget Gorf , Zaxxon, 1942, Donkey Kong, Sinistar, Defender, Tempest, Time Pilot and Gauntlet.

Classic Duke Nukem quote when you try to play the Duke Nukem pinball machine in the game:
"Don't have time to play with myself"

Shit, sorry modern games, ah f@ck. I mean ah shit.

Clash of Clans I guess.

I've been really getting into the messed up storyline of this game:

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I think it would be interesting to poll pinside and see how many also play video games. I think it would be a very large number. I agree with others that 20 year olds won't buy pins but there are some really cool ideas with artwork and stories already established in popular video game series. I don't think the target audience for the Tron movie was a 55 year old man but Stern still made that pin. Video game pins would be no different than the comic book pins being made now.

I think out of what was mentioned. DK country, Halo and Zelda would all translate well to pinball. Some of the others would likely need JJP. Some of those titles would need the extra monitor for progression. IMHO.

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OMG I could not imagine having that Aperture Science song stuck in my head from playing the pin all the time.

This one for sure!

Define younger. Most people see me and think I am in my 20s....though that is starting to change.

OMG Donkey Kong Country. That would be killer. The soundtrack would be awesome! And... oh my all the toys and gimmicks that could be done with this.

But only if the former Gottlieb didn't put their stink on it SMB could've been so much better... sigh.

19-29.

I never service anyone in this age bracket with new model pins.

Timeshock, by pro pinball or pinball Fx tables.

What about final fantasy
Great music
Great theme

Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War

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If they had Big Dick why not Custer's Revenge?

This.

But only if Cranky Kong was complaining about how bright the LEDs are, how the scoring is too unbalanced, and how in his day they didn't need software updates.

At your age you should be careful who you service.

Should have been a Mortal Kombat pin 20 years ago, never figured out why Williams didn't do one, seemed like a natural especially when Gottlieb did SF2.

+1 for Time Pilot.

I don't know why this has not been done already. There are a ton of people gaming in their 40s.... we all grew up video games. Pick one of the big franchises... Halo, Call of Duty, GTA, Mario (or mario kart.... that could be cool). No need to create any new sounds or art, I would think you could lift most from the existing stuff and it would look pretty good. I have never really considered buying a NIB pin.... put Halo in front of me and I might be tempted.....

Oh, and if they do a video game based pin, I want them to figure out how to let us play deathmatch against each other across multiple pins.

It's worked sooo well in the past, super Mario world and street fighter are like the best pinballs eeeeevvvvvveeeeerrrrrr

I would love to see a real "Sonic pinball table"

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I definitely think our generation of "older people" are still in to video games (I'm 43). I was 10 - 12 in the huge arcade boom of '80 - '82. I'm playing different games on the Xbox than my kids are though. Definitely more entertained by GTA, Gears of War, etc.
My kids who are 7 and 9 on the other hand will play Minecraft for hours on the Xbox (and Lego games, anything Mario and Luigi on the Wii U, etc). I think if you are trying to pull kids into pinball on location you would have to go with one of those more kid friendly video game themes.
It's definitely two different markets trying to appeal to the adult home collector and younger people on location.
This is definitely starting to change with the rise of the barcade now. We've got a second one opening in Cleveland this summer and that demo is definitely going to be 20 - 30 somethings... and me of course. If I'm not at home this summer, my wife will definitely know where to find me

yepper! Would love to even just have a new video game "Sonic Spinball" man I loved that game!