EP07 Shannon Stafford My Journey Into Pinball

“I first started playing probably when I was about five years old. It was very, very early. My mother was single and the people down the street from me, they babysat me. They had a huge family, had about 8 kids. And also they had a pinball machine. I gravitated towards it.”

“When I'd go into an arcade, just something about seeing like the world under glass and I was just like whoa these are so cool compared to a video game for whatever reason.”

“I played routed machines. And they go, so what do you mean? I said I would play a game and if I knew something didn't work, I would do something else because you'd have to to get a score in this, that, and the other thing... routing machines helped me so much with my playing.”

“This was the very first tournament I played in. And this is unheard of now. This would never probably happen now. I would like for this to happen every once in a while. There was no cradling. You got DQ'd.”

“I just quit for like 25 years... when Episode 1 and Revenge for Mars came out... and that's pretty much when it died, too... I took about a 25-year hiatus.”

“I have to like everything and I do like spy hunter. Certain games just have certain quirks. I mean, you'll never see another spy hunter. You'll never see anything even close to it.”

“Beetlejuice, oh yeah that game is awesome. It's packed for the money. I mean they packed it to the gills and are giving you everything you want in that game.”

“I think Franchi does pretty much everything now... Full-time artist. I mean, I just enjoy his art. His art's great.”