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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shogun00" data-source="post: 286206" data-attributes="member: 1729">True, but you forgot one perspective. The bar arcades that have been popping up lately. There is one about an hour away from me, that actually has the mentality you mentioned above. Every machine is set to free play and you just pay an entrance fee. This arcade was planning to buy a couple brand new Stern pinball machines, but decided to go with pincabs in the end. In their eyes, digital pinball is good enough and they can easily load a new table in them. Actually, they do. They make a ton of money on replacement parts. I just bought another machine (Robocop from Data East) and Stern still makes replacement parts for it. They usually contract a 3rd party company to make a reproduction of the part, but Stern still gets a nice cut from it.</blockquote>

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