I wouldn't have considered buying my first game if not for my son, who played his first location game before he was 3 years old and was a pinhead for life before ball 1 drained. Now in high school, he recently had a birthday party that happily ran hours late because attendees wouldn't leave the pins alone. Many of them had never played before, certainly not without having to credit up. Every game in my small collection ran constantly. One of the moms was trying to buy my EM from my wife. It was sheer madness!

In my experience, as long as they're able to see and flip, most young people are at least neutral-positive about their first exposure to pinball. Before the first arcade video games, pinball was a unique experience. Its basic essence has charmed young people for many decades now, and that magic's power is undiminished despite all the modern frills. Physics FTW!