Pinball is Booming in America, Thanks To Nostalgia and Canny Marketing

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By msmashMay 16, 2023, 3:20 pm149 pts
Twenty years ago, pinball seemed to be circling the drain. In the 1980s and 1990s video games stole market share from the mechanical sort, and home games-consoles stole market share from arcades. By 2000 WMS, the Chicago-based maker of the Bally and Williams brands of pinball machines, then the biggest…

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