Episode 93 - John Popadiuk: Pinball's Magic Man

“John papaduke why i call him the magic man is because you know he takes your money and poof makes it disappear”

“14 years before he got to do a design and he was just kind of like working as a tech or whatever”

“I think John really, his strength as we go through these games, are his theme integration and his creativity.”

“he has no shortage of vision... he's not the guy that can do it on his own... but what he's also really good at is selecting an interesting theme and making that thing totally immersive”

“every time a loaded boutique manufacturer comes out with a loaded game, I just go, yeah, but it's not good like this game is”

“he can design one fucking hell of a game... the dude can design for all... I know there's going to be already been very critical of John... but he can design one fucking hell of a game”

“this is the best one... this is the best one he's like i played all of these he's like this one's the best one done the research alan and like i'm telling you you can save all your fucking money and just play this game this is the best one”

“if you're going to put these parts into a game, especially at this era where the games are expected to go on location, you need to get your money's worth out of them... I feel like John, his games were loaded, but he got his money's worth out of everything on there”