Two that I can think of off the top of my head: Virtual Pinball, and Future Pinball. In fact, they are used to create versions of real machines - and I am pretty sure VP is what is used for full-sized “virtual tables”. Here is a good place to start.
To be fair, the average home pinball set-up may not be the same as the average arcade pinball set-up (in terms of playfield incline, e.g.).
That’s true but usually not the incline. Slope is almost always the same, especially the new ones that have a built in bubble level. Location operators usually don’t mess with the slope since it’s easy to spot and can be adjusted by a player and a friend when no one is looking, just by crawling under the machine.
The secret to making a pinball machine into a quarter-gobbler are two tiny posts near the tops of the outlanes. They can be moved a mere 1/4" one way or the other, but opening up that lane just a 1/4" will drain twice as many balls as one that’s a 1/4" narrower. My experience is that only the greediest operators open them up as wide as possible, but all private owners keep them as narrow as possible.
But that has nothing to do with flipper skill which just comes naturally to some novices; especially young ones.
I participated in a pretty huge pinball league in the spring that had ~100 people across 2 locations. Both places have 15+ machines.
Arcade games - the US is always behind the curve on them. and it’s a more complicated topic in general.
Pinball is alive and well though.
My usual pinball place is $7 all-day free-play. it’s great for getting really good at games and not getting frustrated at losses.
Yesterday went to our local place, a pinball museum and restoration operation. They have a Jack in the Box machine which appears to be a 4 player version of Jumping Jack. Unfortunately the machine had a problem where the pop bumpers were overpowered and causing damage to the machines when a ball would get stuck oscillating between one and a side bumper. Looked and sounded cool as it was going off like a machine gun and racking up points but the owner said he had to shut it off so it didn’t get wrecked. He said he only turned it on so he could play it himself. I got a couple of games in before he came by and it was great to remember that time of life when I was so young and useless. I’ll definitely be going back there.