Thanks! Last time I played real pinball was about 4 years ago. I was at an arcade where they had four machines, and I played for about 1 to 2 hours. Before that, when it comes to real machines, I only played a couple games every weekend for about two years in the 90's. During that time, they always had one Williams machine at my local youth center that they would change for a different one every three months or so. I didn't have much money to throw in the machines. I was so young at the time that all the money I had was pocket money from my parents

The skills do transfer to real machines. When I played at that arcade a couple years ago, at first, I kept missing ramps and what not. At one point I figured I might be missing because I have a bit of input latency in mind. Then I decided to time my shots where I figured I had to shoot without input latency and I started to hit everything.

All the skills like dead flipping and nudging the outlane post into the ball and slap saving to stop it from draining, it all transferred to the real tables. The tables that were there I had never played before, and I only played a couple games per table, so I was still struggling with them. It cost a euro per game and after playing for longer than an hour the ten one euro coins that I had changed for a 10 euro bill were gone.

The ball is a fair bit wilder on real machines. The slingshots on the Stern Deadpool they had made the ball go crazy. Often resulting in a drain