We Are Pinball #48 BOF CEO David Van Es Joins WAP!!

“We just, I mean, we didn't extend it to sell it as quickly as it did. I have banners that I can't use now that has a QR code. It says buy Winchester.”

“I probably shouldn't be a manufacturer because I'm a collector at heart, okay? I build games. I sell games that in three to four years after we've launched the game, good luck trying to find it, because when they get into the home of collectors, hopefully they'll fall in love with it, and I'll never move from the collection.”

“What I missed as a collector was the opportunity to have that day when Stern would drop a game like Tron or Rolling Stones. These are games I remember coming out. We had no idea. And we were on RPG and stuff like that. And there was nothing more awesome. It's Christmas Day, you know, and you get to see something you totally didn't expect.”

“Market research shows that if you look at just the demographics of Dune, it's actually a bullseye for the pinball industry, for the pinball buying community. It is male, 45 to 55. It's exactly where the pinball demographic is.”

“60% of the media people that turned up including Donnie had not seen the films... this is labyrinth, no one wanted labyrinth no one wanted Winchester now that we have the data but Dune, if you look it on paper is far superior to both those IPs”

“If you're into pinball, you know who Carl is. Like, he is an ambassador for pinball that has done it. It's just like Bowen Kerins. Like, there are people out in this hobby that do it because they love it so much and they want to express it in some form, right?”

“I was scared to know that he bought a Labyrinth because he's such a good player so if anyone's going to find a problem with my game it's going to be Carl so I was terrified”

“I didn't intend to make it for pinball players, but the day that we let kids play it publicly and I realized they're getting their ass handed to them, I was like, oh, this is not good because they can't experience it that well.”

“Winchester and I'll even say Beetlejuice has proven, that if you make the right game, it doesn't matter. Like, it's been the market, the industry has been extremely soft. And I can tell you, if you make the right product with the right amount of passion and the right number, people will come.”