Quoted from Zablon:
I would be interested to really know the actual numbers breakdown. I think it would be surprising how much home collectors are keeping them afloat.
Well Gary did say at the BM66 party that home buyers were now over 70% of his market.
That said it certainly helps raise public awareness of pinball in general by having these nicely stocked barcades. Even now most people would say "I didn't even know they still MADE pinballs"
We're a rarefied group people - let's not all turn on each other. Yes people get emotional and hyperbolic but buying a huge expensive heavy machine that you'll probably be bored of within six months is the furthest thing from *rational* anyway.
And I've concluded that's what helps make the hobby great
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