Team building at Corporate Meetings: Pinball Wizard!

If your corporate destination meeting is looking for an alternative to GPS scavenger hunts and augmented reality, we have a retro team building idea that is taking New York City by storm:

Pinball!

What makes this so appealing?  For starters, attendees love its simplicity.  They say their lives are so "connected" with hundreds of daily group emails, endless social media updates and continuous information rolling in on their mobile devices that it's refreshing to "take a break" at a corporate meeting.  Pinball is especially attractive for meetings that have intense business components.  It can also be ideal for incentive travel groups.

Meeting planners have plenty of options and pinball venues are seeing an overall explosion in industry growth.  Because leagues are popping up everywhere, venues have developed competition ideas that any corporate group can use.  Pinball has become so huge that cities like New York will soon be competing for the World Pinball Championships as its own destination event.

While some machines are nostalgic, top manufacturers have developed new ones like the AC/DC game, which features multiple AC/DC songs that players can choose before they play.  And there are new companies in the market who are launching games like the Wizard of Oz, which is upping the ante with design elements like 45 movie clips that play on a high-definition monitor and LED lights in the playfield.