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So I collect both pinball and vids. But I often think about my 4 Wurlitzer Jukebox collection and how I learned quick it wasn't possible to continue and be in that "hobby" as it has become scarce and impossible with so few that service or sell parts or even (as the average age is much older) use social media which makes it hard to share and sell and get advice etc. I have 4 jukes of which 1 is
in running condition. Pins are fun as so many new ones and new tech in them and I mix the old with the new.

Anything we can do to make arcade hobby not
go the way of the jukebox? 10 years from now can we buy side art? Parts? Will enough new people come into the hobby. Will Pac-Man become the phonograph?

While it may be wishful thinking I feel like arcade cabinets and games are different and I say that as I see my young nieces and nephews running to play my Circus Charlie or Galaga and of course Ms. Pac-Man and Tapper. We make it fun by competing with high scores and yes they get lost in their Nintendo switches and PlayStations but somehow always go back to the dedicated stand up arcades from the 80s when they visit me.

Maybe we need companies to consolidate for arcade parts, cabinet art, heck could a company be profitable making crts again? Ha probably not but at some point cars with combustion engines will be like horse and carriage in a battery EV car world but somehow it's hard to imagine classic cars going away.

Anyway just a thought and wanted to hear if others that have been in the hobby for a while or new to the hobby have thought about its future and maybe what would be an injection to keeping it going. I guess in some ways Barcades did that a few years back. IMG_1471.jpeg
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