Hard to believe that the manufacture of pinball machines is even economically viable. I used to own and operate a route of them from 1972 to 1981 and repaired them professioinaly for other location operators as recently as 1994, and the "audience" for on-location games was old people, and not many markets cater to old people. My former partner, who is an antique pinball machine collector, tells me that about half of the production of new games is sold overseas.