PINBALL OZ WIDE - EPISODE 18: LYNDON CARTER FROM AUSTRALIAN PINBALL MUSEUM

“The very first game we had was way back...An operator was driving to the dump, to dump a couple of games. Stopped in, had a kiss on the back, and just started shouting. 'Oh, it'd be a good educational tool for teaching the kids how electronics and all that works.'”

“Late 90s in South Australia, pokies became legal. So all the pubs, they were calling up, saying, take your games out, we're putting pokies in. That was a big hammer in the coffin for all the arcade games around then.”

“I didn't think it was seriously going to be, anyone would be interested in it...to start with, we actually started off as having a games room at the motel. That was like testing the waters to see if there's any interest in pinball.”

“So I started off with that. That was like testing the waters to see if there's any interest in pinball. Then it was around the time ACDC was released, we thought we'd actually get back into buying games. So that was the first new inbox for, what, 20-odd years?”

“I've plugged it into the ticket dispenser system on the Stern. So in the system, you can set up where the pinball machine will spit out tickets. And so, of course, that's when it's spitting out cards...the software controls when it spits out the cards.”

“It's weird feeling a card whack into your leg as you're playing. Because it doesn't just flow out. It spits the card out.”

“I've seen people saying, oh, kids saying to their dad, oh, play again, play again, I want to get another card.”

“Over the years, I've never broken a pinball machine. And back in the day, Dad only had one arcade machine similar to what you had that fell out the back of a trailer. That's the only damage we've had moving machines. And we've moved hundreds of machines around.”

“The whole history aspect, you know... All the memorabilia, showing how they work, you know, So having the guts of pinball machines up on the wall to show how they work. Of course, all the write-ups too.”

“Ray Maloney, the CEO of Lion Manufacturing, they did other penny games. He created a subsidiary Bally. He was pissed off that Gottlieb couldn't keep up with his orders...So he's like, well, I'll make my own pinball machines.”