Back in the days in France, pinball were a standard part of a Café, usually a couple and a foosball table. I don't remember arcade rooms being full of pinballs, especially when Sega started coming up with some dedicated cabinets that were making money and taking tons of space. This came very true when Daytona USA came out, 4 SD machines lined up everywhere, and coins being dropped in all day long.

At the same time cafes became more like restaurant and less of places to drink, so table space became much more valuable which put the last nail in the Pinball's coffin.

Truth is at 1$ a game for an 8k machine, I still don't think pinball is a very good business, but is surely is tons of fun !

Spot on ! I played JJPPOTC last week at a location, the sound could barely be heard, and it really killed a lot of my excitment, after watching a bunch of live videos.

Oh thanks ! I was so happy to play POTC and already so wowed by how many pinballs you have there, not mentioning their great condition that I didn't want to sound like a spoiled brat !

Playing pinball with gloves, now that's fancy !

Hard to tell if it's a bandage, and hard to tell if she is 14.

Google found the picture, it's the cover for a song Little Debbie. The band is Surgery, so it could be a bandage (but that doesn't tell us anything about her age !)

Sitting in front of Dvd is a 20th century thing. Now you seat them in front if Netflix and you don’t even need to drop your pinball play to change dvds !

I just came out of Free gold watch and played a bunch of game on JJPOTC and Yes the sound was way better !

Thanks