Quoted from JudeRussell:

I remember playing that (when it first came out) at Fun 'n Games in Framingham, MA. Kind of a bucket list thing (you need to try it, but it was not really that fun to play).

Quoted from JudeRussell:

It's hard to admit that but you are right - video games were all the rage and I certainly put a lot of quarters into Battlezone, Dig Dug, Pac Man, and all the rest. But there were still plenty of pins in the building - as compared to present day. Fun and Games is till open, much smaller, and no pins in sight. Solid state, voice chips, ramps, multiball were all fairly new and I remember having to wait for the newer games and being a bit frustrated at the comparatively deeper rule sets. Now I prefer the older EM games.
I guess I look to that era as a bit of a golden age for me personally (high school, I had a job, car, and ended up in the arcade a lot) but looking back pinball was in decline. In some ways games like Hercules were the pinball designers throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick in hopes of beating back the video game demons.