Growing up, I was always more into redemption games, such as skeeball, than arcade games, since I liked the concept of winning an award (tickets/prizes) than earning the high score.  One exception was pinball, which I spent many, many quarters on when I was younger.  I guess pinball technically does have a prize you can win on most machines, which is a free game, but it’s definitely not a redemption game.

Anyway, I’ve never outgrown my childhood love of pinball, so I still seek out machines when I’m on vacation or visiting anywhere (like a mall) that might have an arcade.  If my choices at the mall are browsing Old Navy for an hour with my wife or spending that hour in the arcade, you can probably guess where I’ll be.
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