If you look at EM's through an aesthetic lens they have a much deeper artistic value. It's like most modern things; it's entertainment vs. art. I'll take the peril of risk over the comfort of distraction any day. Why do people collect vinyl records and spend crazy $$$ instead of owning a digital version at the fraction of the price? It's not purely nostalgia or affordability that creates vintage markets, it's our desire to connect to something that is mechanical, analog and tangible, that also preserves the feeling that it was made and designed with basic instinct vs profit. The pins from the 60's & 70's are flawed, but vibrant, and you can feel the human element in every aspect of the layout. I personally prefer wood over plastic, reels over digital and chimes over speakers. If you want a lot of stimulation, I've heard video games are pretty nifty. Pins should respect primitive for a reason, they are rudimentary to our core instincts. The artwork on those old EM pins is sure sweet and much better than the blatant advertisement and commodity of tv shows and movie themes that dominated later machines.