Haven't pins had ticket dispenser options for forever? My 1990 TMNT had an option for tickets. What is different about this that will make that strategy work now? A topper? Possibly custom animations on the LCD in attract mode? I dunno. I personally think a pin is too complicated to loop kids in with tickets. They might try it once, but if they are just banging a ball around with no idea about what they need to do to get the max number of tickets, I doubt they will stick around. Unlike, say, those timing games where they keep trying to achieve the (fake) high payoff of hitting a button at the exact right time to maximize tickets. I've seen kids just park on the simple games they can understand trying to buy their jackpot.

Maybe Jack has figured out a way to simplify the process for operators, but this sounds to me like he is just offering a standard option pin makers have been including for decades, not suddenly offering something that will save location pinball.

It looks like all of the tickets are self contained in that unit, so at worst my guess would be drilling a hole for some cables to connect.

As for timed games, WhoDunnit had timed games. As did safecracker. I am still skeptical if attaching ticket spitters to traditional pins will make them that much more attractive to younger redemption-addict kiddie-gamblers. It still is totally not obvious what actions to take in order to maximize ticket wins (unless the playfield is redesigned), and it still looks like one of those "Old pinball thingies" that kids ignore.

Now replace the playfield with a screen, and then your dynamic playfield art can suddenly very clearly tell you what your simple goals are for maximizing tickets. Make that screen interactive with the ball, showing the kind of interactive gameplay these kids experience every day on their touchscreen devices, and I think you might have a pinball redemption winner!

Now if only there were a platform that had the versatility to offer deep games us traditional Pinheads love, technology kids love, and gameplay options that can dynamically change to adapt to both groups, thus satisfying the widest range of audience possible, and offering us unlimited possibilities for the future of the Hobby.

Surely all of pinside would be talking about that and not excitement or disappointment over which decades old theme the latest game offers.

Sigh.