Just stick a few Pokemon characters on the backglass and all the kids will be playing pinball.

My boys used to play some but never anymore. Any other kids that have come over got excited at first, plays for a few minutes, and then never again. No use trying to explain any rules because they are just trying to keep the ball alive. Adults are the same and honestly I was the same when younger even with simpler games. It would be a waste of time and disaster trying to design pins for non pinheads. If you are going to be spending $7000-$12000 on a pin, you want the features to match the price.

Right, and there is no point in trying to market pinball to people that are not interested in pinball. People that are interested in pinball, want real pinball machines that takes skills to play. If you have little to no interest in playing pinball, it makes no difference what theme is on the backglass or how wide the ramps are. Would any of you buy an expensive pin with dumbed down rules, kiddie theme, and basic layout? No. The argument that it will be successful because everyone else will buy it is ridiculous.

Same here. I just plunge and try to figure out things as I play. That's pinball. While I agree that it would be nice for games to be a little easy to understand, I don't want games to be dumbed down to novice level. The attraction to deep, complex code is that there is always something to learn and explore for months or even years. Not much fun when you beat the game and see all the modes on the first day of ownership.

The display does gives you a lot of instructions but most people don't look up when playing. Even if the display was right on the pf it's hard to keep reading instructions while playing. More callouts might help but don't think I want to hear "shoot the ramp" or "shoot the whatever target" over and over and over. Plus, sometimes there are a lot of things going on at once. Rarely is there just one thing to shoot. Most games have a whole variety of objectives you could be going for at once. A game that forces you down a linear path is not good. The only thing I can think of is to have a novice or advance game mode selection at beginning of the game. The novice game would have simple rules and objectives. However, that wouldn't be the real game and don't think anyone besides little kids would like that.