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Imoto Harney of Captain Crazy’s Paradise - Episode 21
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Send us Fan Mail Episode 21 – Imoto Harney sat down virtually with Jamie from her new family venture in South Shores Alabama, Captain Crazy’s Paradise. They discuss Pinball Content Creation, Video...
Highlights
- Emoto has been doing video production professionally since age 15 (starting in 1998-2000) and incorporated Captain Crazy Productions in 2008
- Started documenting arcades in 2011 when arcades re-emerged, began attending pinball shows in 2015 at Texas Pinball Festival
- Began working for Marco Specialties officially in 2019, currently serves as director of marketing and sales
- Marco maintains 10 major booth setups annually at pinball shows, taking 1.5 days to set up and 2-4 hours to tear down
- Captain Crazy's Paradise arcade officially opened October 7, 2024, with soft opening in September
- Foo Fighters has been the most-played pinball machine at Captain Crazy's Paradise for the past 6+ months
- Mark Mandeltort, founder of Marco Specialties, personally helped Emoto buy her first pinball machine (Hard Body) in 2017
- Emoto brought 37 games total to Texas Pinball Festival with 22 draws
Notable quotes
“I love this community so much and so it's so great to see it grow and especially the ton of creators that we have.”
“Marco's number one goal was to keep pinball out of the landfills, you know, so everything is about promoting pinball, saving pinball.”
“We call it paradise because there's, you know, it's everybody's paradise... sometimes we'll have parents just sit at the bar and hang out because they want to drink and their kids can play the games.”
“The pinball machines it's a tinkerer's hobby you know it's like working on cars like they're so mechanical they're going to break... once you embrace that as just part of it then everything is you know rainbow and sunshine.”
“I fell in love with pinball, but I stuck around for the community because we do have the greatest people in this hobby.”
“Jack Danger... he's the first to stream pinball... he's come such a long way and now a designer for stern pinball you know with foo fighters.”
“That's why we do it jamie that's why we do this... grandpa playing with his grandson and he's standing on a little marco stool like figuring it out for the first time.”
Entities
- Captain Crazy Productions· company
- Fun Billiards and Game Room Superstore· company
- Marco Specialties· company
- Southern Pride Gaming Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Foo Fighters· game
- Hard Body· game
- Harley Davidson· game
- Jaws 50th Anniversary· game
- Gulf Shores, Alabama· location
- Emoto Harney· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Spates· person
- Kale· person
- Kyle Spiteri· person
- Mark Mandeltort· person
- Nate Shivers· person
- Paul Mandeltort· person
- Rachel· person
- Tim Hood· person
- Captain Crazy's Paradise· product
- Electric Bat Arcade· product
- PinTech Live· product
- Wormhole Pinball· product
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