not quite the same but digital is getting pretty good. Pinball Arcade is by far the most popular of the digital pinball collections. Fun too. CSoul might be talking about building a cabinet with virtual tables in them. This is popular too. The advantage to Pinball Arcade is it is "plug and play." However at this point in time Pinball Arcade isn't supported in a cabinet.

https://www.pinballarcade.com/TablePacks/

The most popular environment for playing tables in a virtual cabinet is Visual Pinball.

http://www.vpforums.org/

He would like to own a real pinball table one day though.