Episode 81_Pass the Gravy...Extra Pinball (1)

“Since 2010, it isn't that arcades have come back. It's that you're living in the rise of the collector market. Right. Where guys are buying pinball machines now for their homes, right? And, you know, collectors, some of whom are extremely well-moneyed, are willing to pay $7,000, $8,000, $10,000, $12,000, $13,000 to get not only the games that they want, but maybe the games that nobody else can get.”

“Insider Connected is probably the single biggest difference maker in pinball since they started putting LCD screens. And probably, in a weird way, it's even more important.”

“Stern makes the games that are, you know, geared towards, you know, arcade operators...even when you buy it the premium or the limited edition trim that you can probably set on a floor in an arcade, turn that thing on, and let it run for a week and have a reasonably good chance that you're going to get there at the end of the week for your earnings and your wipe down, and that machine is still going to be running like a top.”

“Innovation in pinball is risky. Yeah, it is. Because everybody says, oh, I want innovation, and then a company comes out like Multimorphic and does something that's truly different and truly innovative, and then you have to spend the rest of your life convincing people that it's a real pinball machine.”

“JJP didn't want to make the utilitarian workhorse machines. They wanted to make the magic machines, and they haven't always hit the mark. But when they do hit the mark, they really hit the mark.”

“What I don't like about JJPs, and I'll speak to this being a JJP owner, is that they're really cool machines to own, right? They're intricate...But they are just basically a PC in a pinball machine shape box. And therefore, like every once in a while, your machine will just decide that it doesn't work.”

“They got in there, they opened up the coin door, and the coin door was completely full of quarters. It couldn't take any more money...I haven't heard about this in pinball in a very long time.”

“Finding an early 80s game, finding a Black Knight or Flash Gordon or a Fathom or something like that with a nice play field was like amazing because they were all played to death.”

“Stern is the only manufacturer that's actually making arcade pinball machines because of their operating system...they're just not making PC-based machines.”

“Godfather is kind of a cool theme. I just don't necessarily see that crossover right now between, like, pinball people and Godfather fans...Godfather were baby boomers, not Generation X.”