Pinball will never go away.

There will always be someone with a stack of pinball machines in their house, just like there was in the early 90s when I started. There were like 4 “pinball guys” in NZ who’d buy all the old pins up. I bought all the Sys11s.

Now there are 50 serious pinball buyers in NZ.

Will all those dudes still be buying every pin in 10 years? Probably not. But 10-20 of them still will be.

Will there still be 10 manufacturers of pinball machines in 10 years? Probably not. But there will probably be a couple still making them.

Remember, in the recession of 2008-2012 is when the pinball hobby in the US took off. Exactly the opposite of what you’d think would happen.

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