The Asheville Pinball Museum is a single admission price (currently around $15) and unlimited play on more than seventy working machines. Most of them are pinball, ranging from a 1948 Joker to current-production tables; there is also a back room of vintage video games. Everything is set to free play.
The collection covers the whole arc of the form, from electro-mechanical 1950s tables that ding and clank to modern licensed games full of LEDs and screens. The owners are obsessive about keeping them running, and at any time several machines are being serviced in the back. Plan on an hour or two — adults usually want to stay longer than they expect.