Episode 118 - Pinball Hindsight Awards 1995

“It's the only award show that actually attempts to get all the awards correct using the mighty telescope of time past to clarify and distinguish what games have actually stood the test of time and what games were merely popular in their day and then promptly forgotten about.”

“For anyone out there that's putting the Brian Allen fucking translate in this for Theater of Magic, straight to jail, dude. Dude, it's embarrassing shit.”

“If you took those mechs out of Pinball Magic, that game is nothing. It's dirt.”

“The only African-American game on this year doesn't get nominated. What else is new?”

“Attack from Mars is like the game people like talk about the audio package on that, the call-outs... To me, you're like that's the one that people are like impersonating the characters on and shit.”

“Whodunit is the only game where: Same guy. Dwight finally got to, like, follow it up. And it feels like Whodunit was really close to that working out well.”

“Steve Ritchie invents the fan. This is a fan layout. I do think No Fear is like a very, very fun, interesting fan with some kind of like goofy, like the little U-turn, and then you have the elevated flipper upper loop and whatever. But the main play field is just a straight up fan.”

“With all the boutique companies, I'm always like, why are they all trying to just make a Stern? They're not going to make a Stern game as good as Stern can make a Stern game. They should do something different.”

“The guy falling down the stairs sound effects. Falling down the stairs. Yep. And he's done. He's like, oh, ah, ah, just followed up. It's so good. That's like, that's by far my favorite thing in any DMD game, dude.”