Episode 2 - The Ritchie Brothers Steve vs. Mark

“if you're gonna know one pinball designer it's steve if you're gonna talk about a significant figure in pinball that you know isn't Roger Sharpe it's gonna be steve”

“Mark is sort of treated as like the little brother. He's the literal little brother of Steve, but also as far as like his respect and notoriety. But I think that Mark's made some fucking kick ass games.”

“if they weren't brothers, it would be, you know, I'd still put Mark maybe on the Mount Rushmore. I'd have to really make a whole list of my top four. But he's definitely up there.”

“I'm not here for it like we're gonna end that on this podcast if you have a problem with mark ritchie fuck you like the man is a legend okay steve's a legend mark's a legend right”

“Steve is every bit the character that you've heard that he is... When we met Steve, the first time we saw Steve walking down the hall, my partner Rodney, he reaches up his hand and goes, high five, Steve. And Steve gives him a high five and then does a pratfall on the ground and then gets up and shouts to a room full of hundreds of people at the expo and goes, that guy hit me.”

“Mark, who we met there as well, he's like total opposite personality. deadpan kind of like a sam elliott type like handsome quiet like kind of that stoic cowboy... And I remember this woman walking up and goes, oh, can I get a photo with like you and your brother, like you and Steve? And Mark's just like, I can't stand that guy.”

“he doesn't want anything boring. He doesn't want you to be sitting there watching the ball fall... I think that's a big thing for Steve's games is that they're a lot of fun, especially for their eras, for players of all skill levels.”

“If you don't like any Steve Ritchie games, you're an idiot... i mean it's an insane opinion like i just be like really you don't like you don't like any of what are widely considered to be some of the best games of all time”

“you go back much further than that and it's kind of a little bit of a question mark... Slash is mid charitably it's mid... i never did flipper rebuild while i owned it i thought that's just how the flippers felt. And now I'm like, huh, maybe I should have taken a couple windings off.”

“I think it's funny because Mark Ritchie, his first published game, I know he had worked on some prior, but his first actual game that got produced was Firepower 2, which has a ramp. It's really early ramp era... This is his first game, as far as I can think of, without a ramp... So he started in the one ramp era, and this is the first time he got to make one.”