Pinball 2000 Part 2 - Featuring George Gomez

George Gomez, legendary Stern/Williams designer, discusses the genesis and development of Pinball 2000 technology on Fresh Pinball Podcast. He details how a CEO-mandated innovation meeting in 1998 led him and Pat Lawlor to develop the mirror-and-video playfield concept as an alternative to John Papaduke's bulky CRT-in-backbox design. Gomez describes the three-week prototype phase, the technical inspiration from 1970s arcade cabinet design, and how the patent on virtual-to-real object interaction became central to the Pinball 2000 platform.