So would Odin's stove... You're implying that he wouldn't magically "make room"!

In regards to the manufacturer arguments, own what you like and there's no shame in owning multiple kinds of course! My basement is a clusterf*** of Gottlieb, Williams, and my first Bally is going to be Star Jet once it's down there, I love the variety and they're all mixed together (besides the Gottlieb wedgehead row and reserved extra space for that) including SS and EM looking like some variation of a very fun Pinfest row (everything mashed together), lol. Screw the rating system. Like you what like. This is starting to sound like an argument in the DMD forums... "But muh ratings!!!!!"

Definitely.

I truly keep an open mind (not only by buying EMs in the first place at my age, unexpected to most) in buying games. If I see a cheap game that really isn't deemed much fun and I want to jump on it, I do it. (or used to, I'm running out of room to do that now and just buy wishlist games)

I can really have fun on just about any game from the EM era, because if you don't like them most of them are pretty quick anyways. I try to look at this way, no matter how dull the action or playfield is, go for your high score if there's no other good reason to play it. There is no score "limit" to pinball, even if you run out of reels/digits, they'll (theoretically) roll over forever. I use this reference a lot: My first game in my opinion is one of the worst games ever created in terms of playfield layout and I bought it by being new to the hobby and not knowing but I still haven't wanted to get rid of it and I'm looking forward to finally setting it up again after taking it down months and months ago, tuning it up and fixing all of my amateur "repairs", and making it run nice and just having to squeeze every point out of it I can on the last ball and locking the balls for an extra ball, which is really the only interesting feature on the entire playfield (and that's even an overstatement), to really up the points. I guess I'm an overly optimistic kind of guy.

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