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Video games have not had the skin of pinball machines, which from the 60s to the 80s were an institution in cafés. New models come out every year, pinball has its aficionados of all ages.
A steel ball catapulted in all directions with a crash, a noise that one might think of another time, which nevertheless seduces a new generation. However, they have become rare pinballs in bars. The owner of one of them kept it for the atmosphere and to please the nostalgic. “We no longer have the older children, who come at 7:30 p.m. after work and who are diligent”says Hugo Catoire, boss of the “Canon of the nation”.
A café without a flipper was unimaginable in the 80s. No bistro would have missed out on this financial windfall. The clientele, mainly male, then comes in groups and connects the parts. For Georges Heliot, manager of Top game, the return to grace of this game is due to former players: “It is essentially today the individual who wants to find this atmosphere that he once knew, that is to say the forties”. Paying for a new pinball machine has a cost: 8,000 euros for a first price, so rental is on the rise.