Crap, I love pinball, it got me started just before Pong came out. At least I have a pinball game on XP here. I even have it on the old Atari. B-P Dang, OBummer is really killing us now. I remember Dad taking my into bars when I was 3, 4, 6 years old and I always played the pinball machine.
Younger than you, but my Dad always brought me to a bar (his idea of male bonding) gave me a handful of quarters and cup of 7-UP and I would play pinball. Just played some today at the student union. Machines are pretty cheap on ebay and a while ago I saw an awesome Ted Nugent one going for a couple hundred bucks.
End of another manufacturing era in the USA. Sad.