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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt McIrvin" data-source="post: 31921" data-attributes="member: 590">The price discussion inspired me to wonder and poke around some more about historical pinball prices and how they varied with inflation. It appears to me that something close to 75 cents in 2012 money is actually a pretty historically typical price for one pinball game.In the 1970s, there was high inflation that basically halved the value of a dollar over the course of the decade, and in response, around the time the first solid-state machines came out, pinballs went from two plays for a quarter to one play for a quarter. The result was that in the late '70s the cost of a game returned to roughly $0.75 in 2012 dollars. In the early 1990s, you'd often find them set to 50-cent play, which came to about the same amount.(It's not entirely apples-to-apples, since the old EMs often gave you five balls... but with the EM style of pinball design, those five balls often didn't last very long!)If we think of 75 cents or 50 cents as high today... well, that's probably part of the problem with pinball as a financial proposition.</blockquote>

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