I really don't know if it's fair to say that it's too complicated for kids today I think in reality pinball is just plain too complicated and too hard period to attract a super wide audience. There are no levels in pinball -- it's on hard mode from the first plunge. Rules are super complicated -- even when I just played The pinball arcade I had to go back to the rules page over and over and over again -- and these were for the simple williams games. Both these things are huge barriers to getting into pinball -- of course it's these same things that make it so fun and addictive once you do get it.

Back to the kids -- , I think pinball has been non-kid relevant for close to forty years, basically once the atari 2600 came out. No longer were games constrained by needing to generate revenue by quarter sucking -- and therefore high score chasing became a minor aspect of the hobby/activity. I remember our big christmas present one year was a beat up Genesis pinball machine. We all thought it was neat, but were kind of confused by it. I think it was only when we got in our 20's that we first revealed the robot underneath the table -- it was very shocking! I'm 52 and even back when I was a kid pinball machines were these weird/hard devices that frustrated me whenever I tried to play them compared to video games. I felt like a moron playing them.

Anyway, long story short -- I don't think this is the best example of how kids these days are different. If this was 30 years ago, I think you'd have the same experience.

I really miss my TNA. There are times where I think I should sell my two pins and go to just this one -- it's such a great game if you just play pinball every once and a while and great to play with friends and family. So many great tense moments where you have the ball cradled on your flipper, trying to get to your farthest reactor and having no safe shots.

The only negative to this scenario is that I would break it in two at some point. It made me such an angry human -- I think I'm not evolved enough to handle this game

P.S. Rocket league is awesome!

The thing is that these kids will eventually be our age. I had no nostalgia for pinball and only got into it by playing pinball arcade. Pinball has a lot of weaknesses, but its strength is that it's actually a fun game that stands the test of time -- not just something that taps into nostalgia like arguably a lot of older video games. Not saying pinball will thrive in the future, there are a lot of things working against it, I just don't think old people dying off is going to be what kills it.