Episode 94 - Pinball Hindsight Awards 1985

“1985 is a strange year as pinball had drastically downsized their operations at all companies. In 1980, the pinball market was at its peak. By 1985, the manufacturers had downsized their offerings massively.”

“Steve Ritchie even left pinball for the first time. But a new manufacturer, Gameplan, also emerged... they really started to ramp up their full-size pinball production in 1984 and of course this year 1985 in what might quite possibly have been the worst time to ramp up American Pinball manufacturing line since maybe the start of world war ii”

“If you ever see a captain hook or a bounty hunter you need to go and play them because they are very fun games very interesting games”

“The Comet spawned a trilogy very important game in the history of pinball”

“Sorcerer's a rad game. Yeah. And it's super fun and it's not as exploitable as other games.”

“Andromeda... has a fucking sick art package. Unbelievable art package. The best art package that the legendary Paul Faris ever did.”

“That Fireball Arcade well that bally went to anytime they needed to drum up revenue was Fireball Arcade that name the theme it was just like a man throwing balls of fire at you yeah he's on fire how that just resonated so hard”

“I think this is the game that if you were to pull most pinball heads if they had to buy one game... it's going to be Sorcerer more times than any other games released this year.”