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Ep 33: How To Get A Great Tan with Josh Sharpe

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This episode with Josh Sharpe has everything you could think of! Arcade, Pinball, LA Clippers, Deep Dish Pizza, Michael Jordan and yes, advice from a sweet book on "How To Get A Great Tan". Put your...

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Highlights

  • Raw Thrills produces approximately 40 games per day on their assembly line
  • Raw Thrills' distribution is approximately 50% domestic and 50% international
  • The Raw Thrills TMNT arcade game was one of the fastest games to reach 1,000 units sold in their history
  • Raw Thrills' production lines were shut down until May 1st due to governor's order (during COVID-19 lockdown)
  • TMNT arcade game had superior earnings per square foot compared to much larger Raw Thrills games like Halo
  • Stern pinball also had production lines down due to COVID-19 orders
  • The IFPA brand rights were originally held by AMOA (Industry Arcade trade group) and were dormant before being negotiated by Josh Sharpe and his father
  • Competitive pinball can survive without new games, but new games are needed to expand and bring in new players

Notable quotes

“we're kind of in the way our CEO explains it. We're kind of back in startup mode. So, you know, for us, we don't really have anything that we can sell to people right now.”
Josh Sharpe
“it's like the fastest game we ever had to a thousand, like the first thousand units out the door. It was one of the fastest we ever had. Just it blew it out of the box when it started.”
Josh Sharpe
“I think there was an inability, certainly back then, you'd run into, you know, and being a high-level player, you run into, you know, one or two times a year where you were able to get these group of high-class players in the same room to battle it out.”
Josh Sharpe
“the recreation of an arcade experience is much easier, and the recreation of American Pinball experience is impossible”
Josh Sharpe
“I have none of that. Like, I have photo albums that my dad's given to me of me standing and playing, and I don't remember being that young.”
Josh Sharpe

Entities

  • Bally· company
  • Midway· company
  • Raw Thrills· company
  • Stern· company
  • Williams· company
  • Papa· event
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • Pinburgh· event
  • AMOA· organization
  • IFPA· organization
  • Gary Stern· person
  • Josh Sharpe· person
  • Roger Sharpe· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) arcade game· product
  • World Pinball Player Rankings· product

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