Most of my friends/family/kids don't care about pinball either...welcome to the club...most people just don't "get" it...

I have however gotten 2 of my close friends addicted, and they both own machines now

He can and will. You just need to use the right bait. With guys, it's easy. First start by consuming numerous beers (make sure your friend has a few too). Then, because you're dealing with a game, just introduce gambling in the equation. Bet him $10 he can't score 10M on LOTR in 3 games, including extra balls. Make sure to mention that he can play the extra balls. That's your hook. Even if he has no clue that pins award extra balls, just the thought that he could get an extra one will be enough to suck him in. Guys really are suckers. If you sell it right, he'll be all over it.

same here,except that don't own any

You really shouldn't be all that surprised at this. Just because he likes video games doesn't mean he'll enjoy pinball.

My guess is it's a familiarity thing - he has none. No experience with pinball, doesn't understand the rules and thinks even if he did he'd suck at it and you'll kick his ass.

He needs an opportunity to try it without any pressure. Even then it just may not be his thing but you got to give him an opportunity to find that out. Get him started while you're off doing something else for a while and see if there is just a little spark there.

This is where a game with simple objectives is nice. Less intimidation and obtainable goals are the ticket.

Good luck!

Sounds like you left console games and he stuck with it.

A friend of pinball is a friend of mine.
Not a friend, then not of mine.

Most of my friends/family have never tried pinball before, my first game was IM and only 2 friends were interested in the game for a week maybe, after that they just lost interest.

I saw one of my friends playing and I asked if he knows what to hit, and he said No, even if I try to explain the rules, they start yawning lol

Most of the time all it takes is one game to get the uninterested, interested. Seems to be the case with my family and friends.

I thought I had friends like this, but I slowly worked them into liking pinball. You can do it, just make it a competition and give him a hard time about how much he sucks at pinball. Maybe he will want to prove you wrong?

My gamer friends love my machines. Wish some of them were good...freakin high scores have been sitting for a long time.

I have converted many friends into the magical land of Pintopia. It takes clever coercion and sometimes just the right machine to spark their interest.

My long life friends are all the same, they'd rather sit at home on xbox and talk over headphones. I have no interest in doing so. I've accepted it and just play myself at night when i get home from work.

You nailed it. I just challenged them one night over some,many beers and now they ask to play a few times a month. One of them has even expressed interest in buying one.

I have a ton of video game friends that are not into pinball at all and a ton of pinball friends that are not into video games. It's just how things are. Different interests for different people. The number 1 thing you shouldn't do is force the issue. If he tries it, cool. If he's not interested then he isn't interested. Believe it or not, pinball is not the end-all-be-all of game based entertainment.

I do play the most pinball in my family, and sometimes my father plays, but everyone else in my family could care less. When guests are over, I do invite them to play pinball.

I work pretty hard at converting old friends to pinball. I have a couple converts who have bought machines and even more that love to come over and play. I think if each of us currently players convert two non-players into guys that have a pinball machine in their house then you are a good emissary to the hobby.

It's pretty much 98% me and one other Pinsider that play my machines.

My son will fire up WCS once in a while. Wife and daughter don't touch them.

Uh-oh... I feel several price discussion threads lurking that way....

Make a Gears of War pinball, or retheme a pin to be Gears of War. It doesn't even need to be a *Real* pin, a future/virtual pinball Gears of War pin that he can play on his computer may be a good bridge from vids to pins.

I don't get the need in having everyone love pinball. We all have different interests, video games are his and pinball is yours.
I would say most of my friends do not like pinball, not even a little. They see ACDC and Tron and say "Hey, those look cool" but do not have an interest to play even one game.
I also have arcade games and most people will play Donkey Kong, Pac man or Tapper right away and do so for hours.
Different strokes for different folks.

I love gears.

i stopped playing xbox to play pinball. actually if i do play xbox i am playing pinball. its a pinball world for me

until Terraria comes to xbox

In best Yoda voice - "Wars not make one great . . . mmm"

Who has Bioshock Infinite already?

As the token Microsoft employee on here, tell your friend I truly appreciate his support of Gears of War. Now download some Pinball Arcade

Put new Pinballs in Tron, X-Men and X-Files last night. Didn't have time to even pull the plunger.

Tonight is family board game night. After the last couple of sessions Settlers of Catan, my son wants to play Risk.

Internet went down for us last night around 8:30 or so..... Got out my mi-fi.... watching clock get closer to 9. Put son to bed. Robbed Mame machine of USB wireless stick, put in PC. Bioshock unlocking was painfully slow..... Played Bioshock Infinite until about 12:00 (wife having Criminal Minds marathon thankfully!).

Best of luck on getting him to play some Pinball. Until I recently experienced it myself, I didn't believe their were people in the world who wouldn't even try pinball on free. But they're out there, I've seen them!

Very impressed with just about everything on Bio-Shock Infinite so far.

My bro's Limited Edition box came yesterday, some sweet stuff in there.

You should fill up your car or sumthin'. Tssss...tsssss...

Double gas-caps!