Episode 29 - Modern Pinball

“I remember vividly people at that point still hated batman 66 and this isn't like my hot take... people were like oh it's a box of lights like it's not the code's not there it's confusing and it really took some time for people to come around.”

“Stern knows what they're doing. They know what people like and they keep delivering it... if a game comes out and anyone tells you it's not good you're like what the hell happened here.”

“I don't think a lot of people are aware that pinball machines are being made still... until they see one with an lcd and then they go oh that's a modern pinball machine.”

“If you have the game set up easy, you can kind of like go through everything in one good game and get into another loop. and people don't like that... they want to have an hour-long game when they finally get to the wizard mode.”

“the de-emphasis on kind of mechs and toys... you get a lot more stuff is happening through the code of the game rather than... a toy is changing state or mech is doing something spectacular.”

“when you're a little kid and you saw a castle blow up for the first time you're like holy shit... the pros like a premium godzilla has the building moving that's pretty good example.”

“I think that's very helpful for new players... a cool mech or cool feature that a new player can latch on to... you gotta see this one because it's gonna do this thing.”

“the market has changed because there's clear priority placed on selling to home collectors and home collectors are typically people that don't know shit about fixing anything.”