I'm not sure his examples are particularly good. Video games are vastly more affordable than pinball machines, offer more things to do, are more visually interesting, etc.<p>Comic books losing was also pretty much inevitable. Thirty years of backstory, infrequent (once a month- that's a year to a 14 year old) releases, you can finish one in ten minutes. Sure, video games are much more expensive. But they last so much longer.