In 1996, the number of companies that produced slot cabinets was deficient.
They had to make a decision: Closing the company’s pinball section or switching to another sector. WMS has developed a prototype pinball table with digital displays, but the manufacturing costs were very high. The habits of the players changed: They started to prefer arcade games instead of pinball tables. Despite the success it has achieved, pinball tables lost their popularity during the ’90s.