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Message: <blockquote data-quote="msilcommand" data-source="post: 286201" data-attributes="member: 7642">Last weekend I stretched $5 in quarters for an hour and a half on a real AFM. Prior to practicing on emulations of it, I would have needed at least $20 to get that much play; in my adolescence, probably more. Without a free pin to practice on somewhere back in the 80s-90s, or a free-play arcade (which was nonexistent in NJ then), the cost to practice on a pin was very prohibitive for the average person. My allowance as a teen in 1994 was $3.50 (and I had a ****-ton of chores to earn it). That would have been one set of 5 plays and a slice of pizza and a coke a week. I love digital pinball for this reason. All of those years of pins I yearned to play, and I finally can do it, sort of, but it is good enough for me. I have actually found that with the pins on TPA and FX3, my real life score ranges are very similar. So, they have got it down pretty damn close.I wouldn't invest $2000 in building a digital cabinet over putting that $2000 away for a real pin, because the two are separate experiences to me. I plan (one day) on building a multi-cade cab with two seats, and a portrait screen with my pie running the mass of pre-3D stuff I already own, and a PC running the post-3D stuff. I don't see any value in building a digital pinball cab. Just my preference though.</blockquote>

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