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It is the game everyone remembers from the 90s, even non pinheads. When normal people come to my game room, most everyone recognizes Addams family and the other pins: not at all. People often say they played it at the 7-11 or the college rec room etc. I think it’s that wide recognition that helps make it iconic and valued.
Quoted from PoMC:I never have understood its popularity. Just seems, meh, to me. Fine and all, but not anything that speaks to me. I never played it on location when it was new, or any other pinball machine for that matter in the 90s. No nostalgia here...sounds like that's all there is to it.
Nostalgia is not all there is to it. It’s a great game and it’s special super power is that a huge swath of people can play and enjoy it. It’s mightily accessible, normal people find it fun. Exactly why, I could speculate, but I just know this is true from years of observation. It had a lot to do with the callouts, feedback, fairly simple to grasp rules. It’s fine if you don’t like it (don’t care), but it’s certainly not just nostalgia.
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