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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sfchris" data-source="post: 62571" data-attributes="member: 2282">Older dude, but first time poster here... I used to participate in many Usenet pinball discussions in the 80s and early 90s. Back then, on usenet and in person I never once heard people say "Pinball Tables". It was always "Pinball machines". I am sure a few pockets of  people in the industry may have used that term but it was not widespread or at least I never heard it.There seems to be a bit of a resurgence of pinball occurring now and I am finding machines turn up all over the place in bars again, so I have been having a blast lately. Talking to the early 20 kids playing them was a little weird at first because they all kept saying "pinball tables". So I decided to google the term... didn't find much, but I did find this site.Being interested in linguistics, I thought I would ask you guys what year  approximately this term took over, and also I am curious what has caused pinball's resurgence. I am not complaining, I love a good pinball game with my beer and now I can play again!</blockquote>

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