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Pinball Needs Innovation (I'll probably get flamed for this)

By mrs_mezelmods

9 years ago


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    #120 9 years ago

    If diversity is needed anywhere, it's in the themes. The Walking Dead is a brilliant choice, but it always seemed like it should have happened before. A music pin is probably coming next, and I'm dreading the day Stern picks yet another 80s rock band. Picks like Kiss and Rolling Stones made sense before because they came out in the late-70s or early-80s when they were at the peak of their popularity. We aren't seeing pinball gravitate to the most popular music performers of the day, like they used to. Now it's just repeats of what the pinball audience of the 80s liked. It all goes back to a basic question: Should the pinball industry and its enthusiasts be working to expand the audience beyond the (here it comes again) middle-aged white male demographic that's at the center of it right now? Or should it be working more to cater towards it? Pinball fell really low. There's a lot of room for growth either way. I'm not as pessimistic as others as to the medium-term health of the hobby. I think that the pinball industry will be able to adapt once people get tired of sci-fi and superhero movies. There just needs to be a way to get more new people into pinball to make up for the one's that have run out of space and/or money.

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