Ep 22: Hands on RAZA with the Velvet Voice, Jeff Teolis

“I'm really big into redemption in anybody. You know, I give people the benefit of the doubt. I try to like everyone sometimes it doesn't work but if it doesn't work it's not a hatred thing it's just you go your way I go my way”

“This is the second coming. This is the second coming of that feel that we haven't had in pinball for 20 years.”

“Why now? Why are you releasing it at Houston? And he said why not. It solidifies us as a real company. There it is. We can make a pinball machine, but this is just the prototype.”

“They made a machine that isn't even going to be their final product because they wanted to get out there and get testing. I mean, who goes out and makes a full pinball machine that's – like they got the play field from Merco. They threw it in a cab that they're not going to be using. It kind of blew my mind.”

“It shoots very, very well. There's lots to do. There's lots to see. I want to play it again because I need to know more, and again, and again.”

“This is 100% what we need in pinball right now. It's such a ludicrous theme. It's so over the top. Campy...I want that humor. I want the fun thing...how many games actually have a lot of humor in them right now? They've gotten so serious.”

“I think there's a lot of people that just hold back from buying new in-box product right now because they're afraid of the clear-code issues. They're afraid of – and those issues only might be one in 1,000 that they make of these. But there's that hesitation there.”

“I only imagine, you know, it's a focus group they've never had. With whatever they've got in San Antonio, well, that pales in comparison to what they saw in Houston when there was a lineup of 560 waiting to play for 15 hours a day.”

“If this was more mass produced and more out there I would have been very curious what the next game was and it was Alien and I have played that and that is a fun game.”

“When you're starting a company, most of the time they don't make money for the first five years. Robert's not putting all of his eggs into this basket that is pinball. He's very diversified, and like you say, he certainly enjoys it too.”