Apparently, they now have emulation programs for pinball machines, going all the way back to the 1950s. Unfortunately, it's only for Windows, but I'm sure somebody somewhere is figuring out a Mac port. I came of game-playing age at the beginning of the video game era, so pinball was endlessly fascinating to me. You just had to compare the graphics and hands-on feel of a machine to the early Pong and space games to figure out why I preferred pinball originally.
From Boing Boing, of course.