Chris Kooluris from Kaneda's Pinball Podcast - Episode 4

“Stern has the license to make Journey Pinball. And because someone was talking at IAPA and had loose lips, the same way I knew that Keith Elwin was doing the single level James Bond is someone at Stern confided in someone who's a heavy Stern purchaser that there was going to be a fourth edition of James Bond.”

“I just love it because I don't think that these themes should be secret like I know grand theft auto is coming out I know what the movies are coming out next year why is it a secret right themes are coming out”

“The only way it kind of works is if you do build up an audience and you create something that people value and then and then you make it a paid thing. I mean it's just simple like anything in life”

“They've now removed me from the database as if the show doesn't exist. But I think cooler heads will prevail. I think Colin is just excited and angry at the same time.”

“People know stuff. They don't want to burn their reputation or their relationship with the manufacturers. But they know I will. So they will – all they do is send it to me.”

“It was a series of things. But the main, the post that did it, like the straw that broke the camel's back was, I was at Jack Bar and it was right when Hobbit came out and the Hobbit ramp broke. And I took a picture of it being like some quality disc machine. Like, that was it.”

“If we know every theme coming over the next year, it puts pressure on the manufacturers to make sure they get great themes that it doesn't matter that you know it's coming like you know jamie because i told the world that back to the future is coming from dutch pinball yeah it doesn't matter they're going to sell every single one and then some”

“This is what annoyed me too about that's interesting perspective and there's a there's a good old boy club in pinball where those guys know what's coming down the line like you know designers at stern will talk to their buddies who talk to their buddies and then you know i get it like they're all colluding to keep this information secret”

“This hobby wouldn't survive if it wasn't for a lot of wealthy men who want to turn their homes into arcades. I mean that is half of this hobby. What do you think about all those – you mentioned cul-de-sac buddies that got into the pinball”

“Pinball is doing just fine like it is doing just fine and what's happened is through covid right everyone got bored a lot of people were looking at their empty basements and they had that fifteen thousand dollars they spent on the family vacation was just sitting there the recession never came”