Quoted from MrMikeman

There are no new players.  Most kids/teens don't even know what a pinball machine is.  The only way to attract them is by having the machine "look" familiar and you get that with themed machines.

Sad but true.

Mike

I'm new, kind of. I only got into pinball a year and a half ago. Would I have pumped quarters into a pin before buying my own pin? I have no idea since I hadn't run across one in the wild for at least a decade.

Quoted from jonny_eh

I'm new, kind of. I only got into pinball a year and a half ago. Would I have pumped quarters into a pin before buying my own pin? I have no idea since I hadn't run across one in the wild for at least a decade.

You never played them as a child or grew up playing in arcades?

Quoted from Vengeance

You never played them as a child or grew up playing in arcades?

Maybe once or twice, but video games were soooo much COOLER!

Seriously, when I decided to get into pinball in late 2007 I posted here, got invited to tuborg's who showed me his machines. At first I didn't even know how to start a game, I figured it out quickly (don't think he noticed), but it took some looking.

Although, I have been a big fan of video pinball for a recent while. I loves me some Metroid Pinball! I've also noticed that Pinball video games still sell well. The 360 game has been a big success, and the same guys announced a brand new game for the PS3. There's also a bunch on the iphone, some are pretty neat. If there's any hope to get people into pinball, it's through video pinball.

I was the exact opposite growing up, I played way more pinball than video games, I always felt that I got more of my quarter's worth out of a pinball machine. They were a little harder to find back in the day than vids were, but I pretty much knew where every machine was in my home town when I was growing up.

i grew up on video games as well, the arcades I spent time in had pinballs but I was more interestead in the arcades.

But that is the diffrence, there arn't even arcades anymore for anyone to get that exposure, a passing fancy for pinball just doesn't hold it anymore, they need that imediate draw that the license can bring.  

I played pinball in arcades a lot during my youth.  I did switch over to video games for a while but I found myself always returning to pinball.  

Quoted from machine.slave

Thaaaaaat's a little creepy.. is that Glen in that picture?  

I shoulda put Gary's face on the girl's body.  

Quoted from machine.slave

Thaaaaaat's a little creepy.. is that Glen in that picture?  

I can understand you making that error, few know that Gary and I are twins.

It's much like that movie a few years back except I would be likened to the Arnold Schwarzenegger brother and he to Danny DeVito.