I don't mind legitimate pinball cabinets but my favorite machine is one that isn't a "real" pinball game. It's a machine that was at my family's favorite pizza place back home that I played all the time growing up. A pinball gets launched down the middle of a baseball diamond and you are just pressing a button to hit it with a "baseball bat" lever. The pitch can come out really slow, really fast, and have some spin on it. At the back of the machine are spaces that you need to try to hit it that register as an out or a base run. Then if you are doing well, a ramp raises up and can allow you to hit the ball over those previous spaces and into the standing where it is a home run.
Pretty simple stuff and I imagine there's been more than one of these machines with different names. The reason why it was my favorite though was depending on how well you did, you received baseball cards from a dispenser underneath it, like getting tickets from an arcade game. As I got older and started taking my card-collecting more seriously I knew that they weren't cards that were worth anything; they were older cards from the 70's and 80's but not anything that would have been valuable. Still. I really liked collecting baseball cards back then, so I was all about that machine.
