Quoted from Blitzburgh99:Here’s an interesting comparison. In collector car world, I can recall see old model T’s going for insane money as an early teenager. 35 years later, those people who had the nostalgia for model T’s from their youth have now mostly passed on and those same Model T’s that went for big bucks are now on lowest end of the price range.
That’s it exactly.. people just see “old car”, and that’s it. That’ll still happen to an extent no matter what with pinball, like “why is this Whirlwind better than that Bad Cats, really? They’re both Old Pinball Machines” or something.. or like your grandkids or great grandkids buying you Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” decades from now because it was ‘probably on the radio when you were young’..
But if they don’t even have any idea wtf pinball really is, it’ll just be bulky, curious, ever-more-worthless junk. Less chance of that being so complete if the game evolves somehow to catch their interest. Like, people are still “car people” and they’d still go for a beautiful model T even if they’re 30 year olds... just wouldn’t pay the premium a person who experienced it first hand would.
I’m not sure if it did happen already or is on the verge of happening (since I’m not plugged into that scene), but I’d thought old vintage jukeboxes had kinda the same thing happening. Prices went up and up, then pretty much everyone who wanted one had one.. and then now those people are dying and they don’t really mean anything to the majority of the next generation that lacks the fond memories.
Damn.. morbid. Well hopefully I live long enough to get a big collection for peanuts