Episode 437: The Pinball Capital’s Francis Wisniewski

“I fell in love with it when I was 16, playing at a pool hall, Monday Night Football pinball. And that shot on Monday Night Football where it goes through the goalposts, I just had to repeat that over and over again.”

“I hate going into any pinball location and the games aren't working or they're dirty or, you know, I'm okay with a couple switches not acting right, but, you know, if the main feature doesn't work or the lock doesn't work or something like that, like... the flipper's not powerful enough?”

“I like the pinball community. Like I've been welcomed by other pinball owners already. I don't feel like there's a competition there that you have in other businesses. I think more pinball creates more pinball.”

“If you're going to finish last in a tournament, you better be there enjoying it for some other reason... the community is the best part of pinball.”

“I do random prizes. So yeah, that person might come in last, but holy cow, look at this, I just got a Jaws Translite and that's kind of the exciting thing too is that they're all equal in that sense.”

“Roger was very gracious in agreeing to come to our grand opening... At the time he just came right, our grand opening party, going to be on the 50th anniversary of the shot that he made.”

“Building a community, right? Like, if you just have an arcade and there's no lead night or no person there that gets other people to play and, you know, creates this fun environment, then people aren't going to necessarily come back.”

“We're going to add a QR code to every machine so that you can... link to a Google doc. If you see anything wrong, you know, report it.”