Caltrops - Caltrops Pinball





	[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"]if customers are paying 50c per game, that you need 11,398 plays on the machine to break even. [/quote]Yeah, but they are on location at bars, typically. If I buy a gin and tonic for $4.75 and it costs the bar a dollar for that drink and I only went to that bar because they had a pinball table, then the profit in the alcohol will start to cover the price of the pinball table. I suspect that bars get tables for a little bit less than what Stern places as the MSRP, but I'd be surprised if it were more than a couple hundred bucks off that figure.[/quote] Oh, that does make some sense. Being a lifetime teetotaler - I've never liked the taste of anything alcoholic - I've never gone to bars, I had no idea that a pinball machine might be the "killer app" for a particular bar, one of the things that draws people to a bar. I mean, I know unattached women who are sexually available are a killer app for <s>some</s> <i>a lot of </i>  bars, but I hadn't thought of pinball machines as being that much of an attraction to them![/quote]