When I clicked the link, I was hoping this was going to be a story about a pinball wizard in &quot;The Who&quot; sense of the word, but this was a great read!<p>I&#x27;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&#x2F;90s---and the shorter lines).  Over the past 4 years, I&#x27;ve gotten into pinball in a bigger way, taking a few blocks of serious study on machines in Local Boston and Berlin bars.<p>I&#x27;ve always felt that digital pinball implementations were a kind of arcade game that had little to do with traditional pinball.  While they <i>may</i> 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&#x27;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.<p>&gt; Budge didn’t find pinball intrinsically all that much more interesting than he did purely electronic arcade games.<p>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 <i>pinball</i> was just another &#x27;electronic arcade game&#x27; to Budge.<p>&gt; “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.”<p>Maybe someday I&#x27;ll get to run a startup with a pinball culture ;)<p>[To date my pinball interest: Born 1985]