>>129875744
Pinball was literally video games before video games. It was huge, so huge in fact that it became a source of revenue for organized crime and developed a bad reputation and was even banned in some areas.

>>129875820
It was banned because it was basically gambling even though pinball makers insisted they were skill games. Pinball itself was invented specifically to skirt anti-gambling laws IIRC. It was the American equivalent of Pachinko

>>129875841
I guess that’s true. There’s only so much you can do with two flaps.

>>129875744
i went to a laundromat when our laundry room was being renovated and there were pinball machines there.
i'd never played but holy shit it was awesome. you gotta try it its got a whole level of fun you don't get in vidya

I envy those rich boomers who have their own pinball machine at home.

>>129875937
I have an old coin operated jukebox, but I wish I had a Pinball machine. Boomers cornered the market and they're just so expensive now

>>129875744
Pete Townshend specifically used pinball as a way of bribing a good review out of a newspaper critic who just happened to be an avid pinball player couldn’t shut up about it. Though to be fair, he did also suggest that the album was a little too heavy and dour and needed one really upbeat anthemic track, which is probably true anyway.

I wish lifehouse was the album that came after Tommy

>>129875744
Pinball is in a renaissance right now. Some badass new tables are coming out that push the boundaries of what's possible

>>129875841
there is a lot of skill to pinball, retard.

>>129875744
There's some shitty hipster barcade in town that I went to with a few friends one night on a weekday. Normally on a weekend it's pretty packed but that night it was just us and the employees. We were fucking around with the pinball machines and this old long hair boomer starts playing on them. Not really sure what I felt but I felt something watching him play it while drinking alone.