When I clicked the link, I was hoping this was going to be a story about a pinball wizard in "The Who" sense of the word, but this was a great read! I've alway

When I clicked the link, I was hoping this was going to be a story about a pinball wizard in "The Who" sense of the word, but this was a great read! I've always been into pinball since a young age (I imagine I was interested because of noticing my parents preference at arcades in the 80s/90s---and the shorter lines). Over the past 4 years, I've gotten into pinball in a bigger way, taking a few blocks of serious study on machines in Local Boston and Berlin bars. I've always felt that digital pinball implementations were a kind of arcade game that had little to do with traditional pinball. While they may converge with the advent of VR, I think pinball and digital pinball in the past are two different games; this has been highlighted a couple times I would tell friends about how I've been playing a lot of pinball recently and when they would join me at a bar with a machine some would be surprised I was not talking about a video game. > Budge didn’t find pinball intrinsically all that much more interesting than he did purely electronic arcade games. I guess my observations about pinball and digital pinball can be traced back to Budge and Raster Pinball, as from this article, it seems like pinball was just another 'electronic arcade game' to Budge. > “They were students of the game, talking about catches, and how to pass the ball from flipper to flipper, and they really got into it.” Maybe someday I'll get to run a startup with a pinball culture ;) [To date my pinball interest: Born 1985]