I always associate it with people people patronizing me and making it seem like I'm immature. The "oh so your a pinball wizard just like that Who song and you have no life because your really good at pinball because you spend all your time at a kiddy arcade". This leads to "arcades have lots of kids....didn't you grow up....are you a pedo".
No I just happen to like pinball, fixing them, the artwork, etc. I still watch football, drink beer and do other "adult" stuff. It's that patronizing element that grinds my gears. Then que the news anchor trying to play. They flail a bit and watch the ball go to the center and give up and roll their eyes and just say "well you know what your doing because you clearly have no life pinball wizard". I mean this is the epitome of it:
I must say though recently it has been getting much better. This came out 3 years ago: