I loved pinball before I loved video games. My early arcade memories are from the mid-late 70's when arcades were still mostly pinball machines with a few arcade games scattered in between. My brother was really good, he could play for an hour on one quarter and watching him make that ball dance was amazing for a kid like me around 7 or 8 years old.
Video pinball is one of my favorite video game genre's although I guess you'd put it in the "simulation" category along with pool/billiards and Atari 2600's video pinball, although not even remotely a real pinball simulation, remains one of my all time favorite video games.