InterGame looks at how pinball defied the odds.
We asked Gary Stern how many pinball machines there are in the world today. He said: “There must be millions,” and we know he’s had a pretty good couple of years at Stern Pinball, but suggest it is something of a Gary-ism.
The last estimate we researched and used in our 2020 Yearbook was that North America – the US and Canada – had just over 40,000 pinball machines in public places. A usual rule of thumb we use suggests whatever exists in North America, it is not unreasonable to double that for the entire market.
Read the full article in the February issue of InterGame
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