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I love pinball.
I just always loved pinball.
I hustled my way through college playing pinball.
I collect Gottlieb games, and I play classic pinball.
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.
I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.
That's usually what I indulge in if I play some games - pinball.
Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.
Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.
My family collects vintage pinball machines, so I have a few in my apartment.
I like to read comics, and I'll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
I'm pretty good at video games, but I'm the champ when it comes to pinball, and that's just because it's old-fashion like I am. I can't get enough of pinball.
I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.
Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.
The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.