Episode 82 - Pinball Shows

“The whole point is how to get the most out of it and i have a very strong memory of drinking uh parking lot beers with an unnamed uh you know another pinball buddy of ours just a middle-aged rapscallion drinking drinking beer smashing bottles in the fucking parking lot and that was a good time”

“What you'll see at shows is very interesting because sometimes you'll see very very very cosmetically beautiful perfect games that play or like dog shit yeah and then you'll find a game that his aztec was in good looking original shape right because they don't make reproduction play fields for ems”

“it's like we got out there there were like the pops guys we talked to we did have like zoe who's an old friend or whatever someone we knew from here but it just felt like a party like coming out and being like we kind of know each other but now we actually going to hang out and play pinball”

“where are the guns? There's no guns. Where are the guns? Why'd you take the guns off of John Wick? And then Randy has to deal with that shit. It's just, it's fucking embarrassing, dude.”

“I hope Gary Stern fucking dies so we can get a real person to run the company and give us real games”

“Pat Lawlor said in an old documentary, I thought it was the best thing. He was just like, listen, we're game designers. We're creatives. We're trying every single time. We're trying to make the most fun game that we possibly can. We don't always hit the mark.”

“don't be that person that is like, oh, you're a celebrity. I'm going to just like follow you around. It's just not fun to be in their shoes.”

“I repeatedly told him multiple times because he's a very nice, polite John Craig. And I was like, hey, man, I'm not here to take up all your time. Like we get split up.”