Quoted from Sparky: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."
Quoted from Strange:That's the million dollar question. I bet you anything you will find video gamers that are pinheads and didn't even know it until their dream themes came to pinball. People need to realize is that there are millions upon millions of people playing video games and the average gamer age is somewhere between 35-41. You might be surprised how well some of these video game themes might perform.
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.
