Quoted from tardis:Forget expo overpriced and no fun last year they had to bring in a bunch of em's just to make the free play area look full for the kind of money I paid to get in I dont need to play em's. If you want to have a great time go to pinball life's open house. Its free to get in it has all the games to play including new prototypes free food free drink and a discount on parts what else do you need. Everybody who is anybody in the industry shows up there and last year they even had a blues band playing in the loading dock. There are lots of shows with seminars and if you need a tour of stern drive over there and ask to look around. Expo is dinosaur dying a slow and terrible death the sooner it gets new management the sooner it can return to being the premier show it used to be.
It's the chicago pinball expo, EMs are pins. If you didn't like them you could have played the other 150 or so games that were there by random people who sacrifice their time and games to make you happy, or in your case unhappy. Thank the flying spaghetti monster that it's not the Chicago tardis approved pins only pinball expo. That would be boring AF.