Same here. The smell takes me back to when I was a kid "helping" my dad work on his machines.

I like both EMs and SS games, but I'll say the good about EMs for this thread.

As someone mentioned earlier, they're good for multiplayer games.
The combined sound of several EMs being played at the same time is a great sound (SS have good sounds but NOT together).
EMs are better if you're listening to a jukebox in the background.

I think it looks good!

I saw a youtube video where the man dressed up an old Chicago Coin game with LEDs. He had bulbs behind the title in the backglass that flashed and were color changers. I was more impressed with the high flash rate than the color changes.

Makes it fun.

My dad likes my 72' Olympic Hockey where the goals are on a separate reel and whoever gets more goals wins. Points don't matter.

I agree. If you the space a "parts machine" is a good resource.

I'm surprised we have the parts availability today. If you would've asked me 25 years ago what I was going to do about getting replacement pinball parts in the year 2015, my guess would be that I'd be SOL.