Emulator apps let you play pinball at home, but that isn’t the same as throwing coins into a real machine. Sharpin’s virtual pinball machines might be a compromise.
Of all the current mass-produced computers, the Raspberry Pi 400 is the closest you can get to the wedge-shaped home computers of the 1980s. Add a C64 emulator, and the combination of new and old lets you dive into old-school BASIC programming and gaming.
BASIC, one of the oldest programming languages, helped make home computers popular in the 1980s. You can run the old GW-BASIC programs from the DOS era in PC-BASIC, a modern emulator.