After our first league night with quite a few beginner players my friend who has all DMD games said to me that he didn't think everyone would have as much fun playing his games than they did playing mine. He said that the EM games are easier to learn and understand than his modern DMD games and felt that most of our new players might be intimidated by them.

I got into EM's by accident. I bought one to gut it and turn it into a virtual pinball. I ended up loading the virtual version of that game (Aztec) on my computer and played it and liked it so much that I spent a year trying to find another project machine so I could get it playing again.

What I like about them is they ARE pinball. Skill AND luck. It seems modern pinball design is all about predictable shots and if the ball has any sort of random return to the flippers then it's bad design. They seem to try to take all the luck out of them. Modern pinball seems to be more about skill and knowledge and if you don't know all the rules you can't compete at the same level as someone with the same skill and more game knowledge.

I'll always have EM's in my lineup and I'll NEVER sell my ACD.

Hell, most of the instructions are painted on the playfield

Score it like Bowling. We do this with ACD. you get 2 balls to knock down 10 targets. If you do it in one ball it's a strike, 2 it's a spare. We play 5 frames.

Me and the kids have fun playing for dollar games but since they have no concept of money they usually end up leaving the money laying all over the pins when quit to play more minecraft or something.. win win for me

Once I met a guy in a storage unit to buy a pin and used an inverter in my car to test it out. It was only 300w peak, so it kinda worked. I think if the apocalypse comes I'll be too busy adding armor to my VW beetle to play any pinball