I've got to say at least over the past 10 maybe 12 years the hobby has really changed. While I don't quite understand it, it isn't all bad. I mean most of the people that I see that go for them usually go for new games only, which leaves the older games to people like me who still want them. I love when I go to a show or something and a good old 90s or even 60s classic sitting there just like a ripe Peach. While everyone else is crowding on whatever the new flashy wizz-bang thing is. I swear to God if Stern decided to make a Cologuard machine at next convention or show people would be lined up out the door.
Why do people do this? I've talked to quite a few supposed pinball hobbyists, experts Etc yet they don't really know anything before 2010? Talking to one person he acted like pinball basically started With The Wizard of Oz and even that considered old to him.
I mean I know we're in a new golden age for pins, but you wouldn't go to a car show and say I'm only going to look at everything that's 2010 and newer. And not even know what a Bel Air is. You wouldn't say while I'm a Green Bay Packers fan but I don't know who Bart Starr was. The mentality seems off to me. It makes me feel like a lot of these people are just carpetbaggers here today and gone tomorrow yet a lot of them are still here. Don't get me wrong I love some of the new games too, played Godzilla and absolutely love it but I don't think it's the best game ever. Also I found the King Kong to be a little bit repetitive topping some of the similar call outs.
Trying to avoid sounding like an elitist here but my games are worth like $2,500 bucks or so well some people have Toppers more expensive than that and they'll probably sell the machine to buy the next one that comes out from the big dealers