Skip to content
Wedgehead Pinball Podcast
121 episodes tracked since 2023 about →
Copied!

Episode 88 - Pinball on Location

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago41 min listen
From the creator

Support the show and get a link to the private dischord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode is all about why pinball's natural habitat is on location, and why location pinball still...

Highlights

  • Gary Stern said Stern Pinball now sells 70% of their games to the home market
  • Other manufacturers (non-Stern) sell approximately 90% of their games to home collectors
  • Pinball's stock market performance directly impacts how critically collectors evaluate new releases
  • Getting into pinball requires repeated exposure over time: no one falls in love on first play
  • Operators make purchasing decisions based on earning potential, not theme preference or personal taste
  • Playing pinball on location costs a few dollars; buying home machines costs $6,000-$15,000
  • Rob Burke has attempted to buy every pinball machine and 'is getting damn close'

Notable quotes

Pinball on location is pinball's natural habitat, and that's because it is.
Alan
The game was invented to be put out on location...you'll often hear me refer to pinball on location as pinball's natural habitat.
Alan
There's no way you're ever going to have the collection where you get to play truly everything you ever wanted...you need the locations around just so you have a chance to play a lot of these games.
Alan
Before I had pinball in my life, it's like I would just go to bars and then once I found pinball and found the people in this hobby, that completely changed...it's such a different good thing in my life.
Papa Duke
If you don't have any friends, I want that one [PS1 with Gran Turismo 2]...pinball without the people kind of sucks.
Papa Duke
You can still fucking go out and pay ten bucks and play pinball for eight hours at Wedgehead...you can still enjoy pinball even if you're broke.
Alan
Operators as long as they're still making money they don't care...Rhodes actually cared quite a bit about this one...and he was so upset that he went and bought like two or three or whatever anyway.
Alan
We're building Harley Davidson motorcycles to guys that have ridden Harley Davidson motorcycles since they were teenagers and then those guys are going to die and then there's going to be no new teenagers that'll play pinball.
Alan

Entities

  • Harley Davidson· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Dungeons and Dragons· game
  • Flash Gordon· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Jaws· game
  • John Wick· game
  • King Kong· game
  • Lord of the Rings· game
  • Whitewater· game
  • Portland, Oregon· location
  • Wedgehead Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Alan· person
  • Gary Stern· person
  • GM SPD / Game Speed· person
  • Keith Elwyn· person
  • Papa Duke· person
  • Rob Burke· person
  • Discord server· product
  • Ko-fi· product

More from Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

→ All content from Wedgehead Pinball Podcast