I'm sixteen, and my dad was a fifty-year-old pinball nut. He endowed me with a love of the game, and now I have an interest in it. We even have a "Haunted House" machine now. It's fun, has three different levels, and is definately not one of the soulless machines that everyone is talking about. The problem with it is the blasted thing keeps breaking about every two weeks. At sixty bucks a pop for a guy to come out and fix it, that ain't cheap. There's nothing really major with it, but ciruit boards keep frying, bumpers snap, etc. The problem is you have to purchase physical parts as opposed to just downloading a patch from the web. That's the problem. There's nobody with a open source version of replacement parts.
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I'm sixteen, and my dad was a fifty-year-old pinball nut. He endowed me with a love of the game, and now I have an interest in it. We even have a "Haunted House" machine now. It's fun, has three different levels, and is definately not one of the soulless machines that everyone is talking about. The problem with it is the blasted thing keeps breaking about every two weeks. At sixty bucks a pop for a guy to come out and fix it, that ain't cheap. There's nothing really major with it, but ciruit boards keep frying, bumpers snap, etc. The problem is you have to purchase physical parts as opposed to just downloading a patch from the web. That's the problem. There's nobody with a open source version of replacement parts.