Arcades Across America - The Growth of Quarter Drop Arcade

Arcades Across America - The Growth of Quarter Drop Arcade

Coe and Jamie are back! Jamie travels (virtually!) to Cottage Grove, Oregon, to catch up with Coe, the mastermind behind Quarter Drop Arcade. It’s been a season of massive growth, and Coe is pulling back the curtain on what it takes to run a thriving modern arcade.

In This Episode:

• The State of the Arcade: Coe shares an update on the expansion and the community vibes in Cottage Grove.
• The Lineup: We do a deep dive into the current roster of pinball and arcade cabinets.
• "Bolted to the Floor": Find out which machines have earned a permanent spot in the collection and aren't going anywhere.
• The Earnings Report: Borrowing a page from the Electric Bat Arcade’s playbook, Coe reveals the cold, hard data. You might be surprised by what’s currently the number one earner at Quarter Drop!

Please check out www.quarterdroparcade.com

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Welcome back, buddy. Thanks for listening today.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Hello and welcome to an edition of Arcades Across America with my friend Ko from the Quarter Drop Arcade. Co, it's been way too long since we've done one of these. How are you, sir?

SPEAKER_03 0:36

I'm doing wonderful, Jamie. It's so good to be here when you contacted me and said you want to do this. I was very excited because I've been looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

I miss you, buddy. How are things at the quarter drop? Talk to me, Goose.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

I mean, it couldn't be better. It's amazing. Um the arcade is wonderfully busy all the time. Awesome. Um, I'm enjoying the experience of owning the arcade and running the arcade and operations and all that. Um, getting lots of cool new machines. Oh, we're gonna know your lineup. I want to I've got some good stuff, uh, including something that just happened today that's very exciting. And um, I've met so many friends and people in the community, and everyone just embraces the arcade, and it's like the family. It's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

That's fantastic. Well, we miss you, buddy. Uh a lot has changed, I guess. I've been rocking with the with the round table and doing any of that. I don't know. Have you caught any of those episodes?

SPEAKER_03 1:37

I've caught them all. I I lurk because I watch it on my TV.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Oh, great.

SPEAKER_03 1:42

Yeah, so yeah. Yep, I watch it on my TV and I watch every single one of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Well, thank you, sir. Yes, and uh, I've had a lot of fun with those two clowns. They're my buttons.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

You guys are perfect chemistry together. Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

So let's talk lineup here. Okay, okay, yeah. Last I checked, last we spoke, you had seven pins.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

That sounds about right.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Okay. What are what are we rocking today?

SPEAKER_03 2:11

Uh are we up to ten? I think. Let's see. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Ten pins.

SPEAKER_03 2:20

Yep. And I can't fit anymore. That's that's all the room I have for.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

What's happening? There was a potential second floor opportunity.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

Uh, yeah, that's gonna be a big project because that we have the room up there, but we I have to have like a reinforced floor installed. Oh, yeah. Um, and I mean we're talking, you know, uh, 100, 200k or something like that, probably. It's I mean, I would like to do it, but then also there's insurance. So this building is a historical building, it's 114 years old.

unknown 2:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

I may not be able to get that second floor insured because when you're altering such an old building, there's a lot of gray area. So that's a maintenance.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Because I know you were talking maybe a party room up there with some more pinball pins.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Yeah, actually, what I would, if I do do the second floor, part of it, the main chunk of it is gonna be a private pinball club, speakeasy style, uh, keyless cart access, maybe a bookshelf that opens up, and then uh a lounge, a movie theater, a pool table, and a bunch of really good pinball machines. Um, and you paid per month, it's not gonna be cheap, but I have a lot of people that are very interested. I think you gotta build it. If you build it, they will come. You build order drop. It's gonna be uh pretty amazing if I do it.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Yeah, and then good luck with that. So let's talk. You know, I would that would be just fantastic for you. I think that would be amazing. So I hope that happens for you.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

Me too.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

Um but you know, when you're doing with government, who the hell knows, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Yeah, uh it's I'll have the quotes done and then talk to the insurers and do the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Yeah, yeah. All right, give me your pinball lineup, 10 machines. Okay, people want to know it.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

Yes, so Godzilla Premium, bolted to the ground, one of the greats. I mean, I love it, I play it all the time. Uh I broke two billion recently, so that was exciting. Yeah, although then I break two billion, I think, oh good, I'm safe. And then uh Liam, who's on the home pinball team here, uh, he almost broke three billion, got 2.9 something. I'm like, oh my god, now I have to play Godzilla again. So that was a bummer.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

Uh I mean, good job, Liam, but you know Liam, but yeah, you know uh a beautiful Ripley's, believe it or not, that I fully just I mean, I did everything. I modded it to the nines, it's got a custom topper, it's got you know art blades and color D D and all the mods you can do to it. It's stunning, powder coated everything. I mean, it's uh really just beautiful Ripley's.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Well, I like the Pat Lawler that I like. I am Pat Lawler fan.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Me too, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Uh I like a good Ripley's.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

I tried to I housed the Ripley's for a while and I yeah, I fell in love with it, you know, because I only have room for one or two. So when I yeah, when I house it, I go all in deep in the code, and that's a machine that I'm tough to beat at.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

Yeah. Uh it's underrated. I don't know like why is Twilight Zone 10 grand and Ripley's is like four. Uh it's it's weird to me, but hey, I'm I'm glad it was because I got a really good deal on it, and then I spent a lot of money, you know, making it perfect. Yeah. Um, but you know, that's another one that's bolted to the ground. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

So we're down two.

SPEAKER_03 5:54

Yeah. Uh fishtails. I don't own fishtails. That's Doug, who's my I call Doug Yoda. He's my repair uh guru tech. He's 40-year veteran of arcade and pinball repair. He's a genius, and uh, he helps me out here at the quarter job, and I'm so thankful for it. And uh I let him operate his fish tails here, and people love it. Yep. Um, and then we got Pokemon, uh Pokemon Pro. Yeah, I you know, I assumed that it would be a big hit, and I was correct. It's a big hit.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Wait till the achievements come. We're any day now.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

Yeah, what's the code, Stern?

SPEAKER_01 6:34

I'm I'm we're any day, it's not them. Come on, I I keep posting videos like a clown about it, but uh you know, this is Pokemon Worldwide, and we're waiting for them to accept that email. So if anyone forward this little clip to them, yeah, that'd be great because there's a lot of achievements that we're waiting on.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

I'll tell you what though, people that don't play pinball, they gravitate towards Pokemon like you wouldn't believe. Kids gravitate towards Pokemon, it crushes earnings, it gets played all the time, and then there's the people that like me who are like, I don't care about Pokemon. Like that theme does nothing for me. It's actually go, I would say I don't even like the theme, it's a negative theme for me. But I actually like the way the game shoots, it's fun.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Yeah, you know, when that Pokemon ball shows up and that thing turns purple, I freak the hell out, but I gotta catch it. Yeah, I I I gotta catch them all. Gotta catch them all. Hey, did you see that Stumbler mod where it spits out Pokemon cards? Would you get that?

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right. I think you can't think I mean, you know, it's one of those things like from an operator standpoint. Why am I spending more to do that? But I think that would is so cool, and people would play it more to get those cards, so it probably does.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Eureka, the guys in Eureka, shout out to John and Taylor, because that's my hanging out joint, right? Yeah, of course. They are gonna put in that stumbler mod, they should, yeah. And then what they're gonna do is add it to a match.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Every time you get a match, that's when the card comes out. It's not high score, it's not achievement-based, it's just knock match based.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

That's cool. The only thing is, how are you can gonna communicate to the customer that they have that chance to win the card?

SPEAKER_01 8:29

You gotta put a signal up.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

People don't read signs, though.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

I know.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

I they you know, people, I mean they don't you can put I have a giant, like I try to communicate everything here as clearly as possible. They don't read. It's gotta be just I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

I don't know what to do there. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

That's the my pause there.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Good call, but it'll be pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

It would be it is cool. And I have I have uh one of those uh skill stop machines with full Pokemon cards, so it's got on a carousel, and you press the button and you try to depress the lever and the Pokemon card falls. And yeah, uh, I mean, we're talking crazy. That thing is gets played all day long. So people like Pokemon cards. Okay, yeah, all right. Oh, okay. Yeah, oh yeah, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Or later. I mean, why not?

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

All right, so Pokemon Pokemon Pro.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

And that's yeah, Pokemon Pro. Okay, 007 LE.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Great game.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

Yeah, yeah. I'm terrible though. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Oh, you gotta collect those women. The girls, you gotta get your girls up because that's my favorite pastime. Well, all of us try, but you can't get your girls because your multipliers and uh they are everything if you can get the 007 mode and and uh yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 9:57

But you know how some games you just like you like, but you just can't do it. They don't, and you can't I I it's that's that game for me. I like it, I like the theme, it's beautiful. It's George Goldman. Sure. Um, but I just I can't score anything on that machine. I'm terrible at it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Try this real quick. Okay, yeah. People are gonna, you know, who love 007 like me. Try orange Q mode with your multipliers.

SPEAKER_03 10:26

All right.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Okay. You print your print points.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

Okay, I'll try.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

If you can get your girls lit, your women villains, and get those up to even like three to four X and start orange Q. You don't want to start green Q, yellow Q, it's gotta be the orange Q.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

Okay. Orange Q multipliers print points. I need to print points because I'm I don't know, as a leaderboard up. I'm yeah, sure. I'm not even on the top ten on that leaderboard, which is crazy because I'm you know, I'm most of a pinball leaderboard.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Yeah, you you start getting figuring out orange Q, you'll be up there.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

All right, go ahead. What is next? Uh what's next? Attack from ours, Chicago gaming remake. Okay. Yep. Uh another one that's like, you know, that was a grail machine for me. Yeah, it ain't going nowhere.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

It's no, it's a great machine.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

Oh, yeah. I mean, when I saw that look get listed, um, I uh I within like four minutes of it being listed, I said I'm on my way to buy it.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

So this, you know, I've had it for quite a while now, but uh and Chicago gaming's games hold up, you know, the rock solid. They're rock solid. The issue is getting them, right?

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Well, yeah, yeah. That's why I was like, oh my god, I'm on my way.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

Great.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Um, yeah. It it hasn't had any issues other than the uh end of strokes, which is gotta you know clean them out stuff, but that's that's normal games. And I did a flipper rebuild on it, but of course. Um yeah. Uh Star Wars Ellie, the Steve Ritchie. So I Steve Ritchie. I bought uh Fall of the Empire. I hate Fall of the Empire. I thought it was really bad. Um I know you like it. I've seen it.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

I have really fell in love with it. Yeah, I know. It was almost like you had to force yourself to love it.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

I've never I guess I've never sold a pinball machine quicker than I sold that one.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

The guys in Eureka are they it's not earning there.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Yeah, well, it earned all right. I just okay for me because I only have so many spots. Yeah. And I play pinball all the time with my friends and the home team here. Um, if it's not like fun, it's not staying here. And I was and that one that the the Death Star shot was you know, that whole thing, and uh there was no like nothing interesting about it. I was like, oh, this is so I got rid of that and brought in the Steve Ritchie um LE, but I what I really want is a Data East Ours. Um, I will buy one of those to replace the Steve Ritchie one. Okay. Uh I like the Steve Ritchie one, but the data east one is my favorite by following.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Well, you've got the hyper loop, so it's really kind of cool and the LE and that and neat feature. Defend my boy Raymond Davidson.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

If if you had given it a little more time, the code has gotten so good that it is fun. That the the I think board games are hard. Okay. Yeah, I'm okay with hard games. I um yeah, so it just didn't talk to you. Look, some games don't speak to you.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

And that one didn't speak to you.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Don't worry, yeah. And Pokemon, I didn't think would speak to me at all, and it did. So it's weird how it, you know, you never know.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

You never know.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

Yeah, and some people like uh Fall Vampire. Um, but yeah, I don't know. It had to go.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

It had to go. Listen, you got limited space. We got 10 machines. We you know, if it's not if you're not feeling the love, you gotta move on.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Yeah, yeah. Alright, D D, Tyrant's I, pro.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

So there's one that's been talking to me. Isn't that hilarious?

SPEAKER_03 14:12

It doesn't talk to you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

I can't.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

You know what? I I don't like it either, but I have so there's a couple people that come to the arcade just to play that, and they play it all the time. I I we had some background interference, I don't hear it at all now.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Yeah, it's gone.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

It's gone. I wonder what that was. I don't know. Hey, it's much better now. Um, so there's a couple people that play it all the time. And the one person in particular, Terramick, who's on the home pinball team, he plays it every day. And I I don't quite have the heart to get rid of it, but it may have to get axed.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Well, you gotta look at your earnings and your it does, it does good. Yeah, and your cheat cart.

SPEAKER_03 14:56

Yeah, I hope.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

I like it. They I you know if we delve into this machine, the the problem is the under the cube is such a vital shot when it locks under the cube because then you could use that right upper flipper to hit those two shots, which are vital. One starts dragon multi ball, the other they're just important. To get to it, you have to go through Quizmo's little shop, or you could go to the you know, the like the little loop of your four, and it's just it's not a good tournament game because no one can log in the second ball, and it I don't know, it just doesn't talk to me anymore. It I love Brian Eddy and I love Dwight. It's yeah, attacked from our ball.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

You're right. So that one's not bolted to the ground, it will go at some point. Okay, but it's here for now. Uh but what is bolted is Alien Ripley Edition. My beautiful people come in here and they say, I saw on pinball maps that you have an alien. We drove from so and so, and because you got a whole room there, don't you have a whole alien room? I have a whole alien room, yeah, and I was gonna buy Predator, but it was too expensive. Yep, and I was gonna put it next to my predator or my alien. Um, but alien is you know, you gotta love it. It's beautiful, it's hard to play, it's difficult, it's a little bit hard to play. It's a little it's a little uh oh, what's the word? Bouncy, a little not perfect, but um, it's a very beautiful game.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

And I'll tell you what, today do you have do you know uh Serge from Pimpals on the Electric Bat channel?

SPEAKER_03 16:47

Oh, he's he's amazing at rules and commentating on on here if you can see him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Okay. Yeah. So he commentates and he does they had Jason Zahler on today, and they did a deep dive into Pinball Brothers Alien. Nice, and uh, you would get a kick out of that. I'll have to watch that. Uh he really deep dived the rules, and it's not a machine that talked to me either, but I only played the highway, I never played the pinball brothers.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

Yeah, and I mean it definitely talks to me. I'm just it's difficult, but I love it. It's so good. And people play it all. It gets it's one of the top earners every time I do a corn.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

Um as far as pinball goes, at least. Okay, and then last but not least, I think that's we covered them all. Okay, so 1978, Gottlieb System 1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I saw this, I saw this post on Facebook Marketplace. It sat in a warehouse near the coast for like 30 years, which is not what you usually want to hear, but I got it for 500 bucks. Yeah. Um, and it's required a lot of TLC. It's gotten every I did everything you can do to it. It's beautiful. And then Doug helped me bring it back to life, and it literally just came back to life tonight. It is now done and refurbished, and we were playing it right before we uh filmed right here. There you go. And it's uh it's great. I like to have machines from different eras. Um, I might bring in another electromechanical machine as well here soon. Um, because I really want to have a diverse lineup, not just you know, sterns.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

If you're just 10, a diverse lineup's nice, you know. Uh the guys at Eureka had a tough decision to make, you know, to when they grew. Since I spoke to you, they've gone from seven machines to 26.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

Wow, that's huge.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

Yeah, huge, right? And there's a tremendous amount of space at Eureka Heights. And so they went with the new mode. Yeah, they went new, and everything is new. Um, they have a massive stern row, a couple of jersey jacks, and then they have a spooky row, which is getting they have a spooky row, they have Jetsons, they have good.

SPEAKER_03 19:08

Oh wow. Yes, you don't have the Jetsons very often.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

No, they have seven spooky machines, but okay, you know, spooky and tournaments don't work out all that great, they don't really care about tournaments. And like Beetlejuice, have you played it?

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yeah, oh no, Beetlejuice? No, I haven't played Beetlejuice.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:27

No, I want to. No one has one anywhere near me.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Okay, it's fun.

SPEAKER_03 19:33

Yeah. Oh, I believe it. It looks fun.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Wicked fun. Yeah. Right. And it's art, it's just beautiful. Francis just nailed it. But you know, it's not a tournament game.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

Yeah. You know, the problem with going new as far as a lineup here at the quarter drop is if you go 20 minutes down the road, you're in Eugene, which is the second largest city in Oregon, and all the arcades there have all the new stuff. Okay. And it's just uh so people come here from because we have you know pinball leagues and stuff. They come here because I've got stuff that they don't have over there.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:09

Um, so I try to, I actually, before I buy a machine, I make sure nobody has one anywhere near me.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

So you go to right to pinbo map.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

Yeah, I'm not buying it if somebody has one in Eugene, if someone has one in Roseberg or anywhere near me. I'm not buying it. Um I other than like I do get a few of the new sterns because we've got to have you know the latest and greatest. And I like to play them. Um, but in general, I try to have unique stuff. Um I'm trying to lean into that even more uh kind of moving forward.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

What um all right, so we know what's bolted to the ground, we know what's not bolted to the ground. I'm gonna I'm gonna go through some new pins that are coming out, okay?

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Okay, cool. I like that.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

And you tell me if it can it's come into the quarter drop.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

Oh, okay. Well, this is a lot of nose, probably, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Well, I've only got a few written down here. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

I'm curious as what yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Well, here's the next three pins that we know are coming out by the end of this year.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Or four pins. Transformers. No. With uh Elliot Eisman. Okay. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. He did John Wick.

SPEAKER_03 21:27

And they're supposed to be we that's confirmed that that's the next turn.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Yeah, I'm on the round table now. I I I have some excess I have access to these ridiculous rumors from my friends.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

I I'm sad because I've been saving for the Fallout. Okay, so Fallout is after an LED.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Interesting little tidbit on Fallout. Yeah. That's uh Keith Ellen.

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Keith Ellen, yeah, that's why I'm buying it.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

And they're gonna It's based on the Amazon series. So you're going to see a lot of that Walter Goggins character.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

You don't like the Fallout series? No, I do. I just really wanted it to be just the games, the animations from the game. But it's okay. It's as long as they incorporate vats and that whole aesthetic. Um sure.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Yeah mech with you know whatever the Iron Man type situation, the armor guy. Oh, it's Keith Elwyn. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I'm I'll buy a Fallout for sure. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Um and if depending on how good it looks, is how it all got the Pro Premium Rally, but definitely definitely Fallout. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 22:47

Although I sold my Kong um to a buddy. I didn't really Kong was really good. Um, but I I was okay moving it on. Okay. It has time. Yeah, it has time, and I liked it. It was solid. Um, but you know, my buddy um playing it a lot more.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Yeah, I honestly I do kind of miss it. You know which one I do miss out of all the ones I've sold is the Jaws. Um we might be getting another Jaws here.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

That's I think I remember you told me that Jaws.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Yeah, yeah. I've sold a lot of pinball machines, and that's the one that I miss is the Jaws. Yeah. And I play it when I'm other places. I'm like, oh I need a Jaws.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Yeah, yeah. You know, and the premium is is a little better than the Pro. It really is.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

But the upper okay with both.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

But I'm okay with the Pro.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

I I you know I've been playing it a lot, and I'm trying to get my uh my Shark Attack. What is it? The counter, shark counter, those are tough. I know, but it's fun if you can really get it up. It's a great, great machine. Yeah, it's great. I brilliant. Yeah, so I I I can see Kong leaving, it had its time, it's at its place.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

And my buddy monitored out to the nines. It's beautiful now. He did the whole thing to it like I did with Ripley's. He went full in and uh it looks it's like really nice now.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Was it a pro?

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Uh it yeah, it was a pro.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Okay, so because they have those new mods with the spider now and they got it and the gong and the torches and the speaking of shirts, right? Yeah, we'll get back to the current lineup and uh that in a second. But speaking of shirts, right? I did some spring cleaning in my house the other day. Okay, I have a ridiculous amount of pinball shirts. Okay, just way too many. And some of them were double X, and I I've lost a couple LBs and I'll never want to go back to that. So I donated, but some of the t-shirts, the quality wasn't as great as like the bat. Like you know, the shirts are really important. So if you're a content creator and you've got your shirts out there, get some good shirts, like the quarter drop arcade hoodie.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

That's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

That's a nice hoodie. You gotta have good quality stuff. Yes, you gotta have some good quality stuff. All right, so Sonic, would you get a Sonic, a 10K arcade version Sonic from JJP? Because I noticed you don't have any JJPs over.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

Never had a JJP, never made a machine that I had to have, to be honest. Uh Sonic is the best bet that they have for me, for me to buy a Jersey Jack. Um love the theme. I mean, I'm a Sega Genesis kid. I've still got I collect I collect retro games and me and you're having conversations, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Video game monkeys.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

Sonic, good good shot at it. Uh I could see buying a Sonic. Those jersey jacks are a little expensive, but they put a lot into them, so I get it. I mean, it's not like they're not worth the money. Um but uh yeah, I would I could see buying a Sonic. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

What about a Goonies from Spooky Pimbball?

SPEAKER_03 26:19

Oh, that's a tough one. I'm not I Goonies for me isn't as big as it is for a lot of my friends. I mean um, but it's an organ icon, and people around here are gonna love Goonies.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

That's gonna be tough for you to say no to, probably.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

Yeah. It would get played constantly, and I know everyone will love it. And it's not like I don't like Goonies. I just it's not something that uh I'm passionate about, like I am other things from the 80s.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

Okay, so maybe uh no for Goonies. Hey, probably not no Harry Potter, that's surprising.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

Uh no. Uh I don't know. I just but I don't like the theme. Uh Harry Potter doesn't do it for me either. I know. It's a big earner. I know, yeah. I'm I'm very particular. I just yeah, and you can play that any gene. I could get a Harry Potter here if I wanted to, because um there's a I have a vendor that I they have a few machines here that they rotate for me, um, and they have a Harry Potter. I've thought about having them just bring one in, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

I'd bring it in and print some quarters for you for a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

Yeah, it's a fun machine. I play it at the next level pinball museum in Hillsborough, um and it's great.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Yeah, I I'm a I'm a huge fan of that machine. I play it a lot. And uh uh, you know, just even playing Quidditch and starting to learn the rules uh more and more and more. That's the problem. Like GGP, the rules are deep, right? You really gotta put a lot of chords and start figuring all this crap out. And uh there's a local player who works for another pinball company. How about that? I won't even name the pinball company, although you I think I know who it is. Not that hard to figure out because it's used. He plays the hell out of Harry Potter. Oh, okay. Okay, and he has all every high score on this machine. It's just unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

Jersey Jacks are a little bit um, it's kind of hard to explain, but to me, they're like the Disney of pinball. Um, and I don't connect usually with them because there's they're a little too polished, there's a little too much going on. Um beautiful machines, but like they play, they play forever. Are you gonna sit there and play those? Like, as far as like on location, like I sometimes I like play an avatar. I'm like, oh my god, what time? You know, it's just like what they just I don't know. I I kind of gravitate towards weird stuff though, like you know, I really want to get a water world, like a Gottlieb waterworld, and stuff like that. Yes, you know, I like this the quirky older stuff, um things that you don't see very often, or um maybe like a mouse and around or a xenon or you know, this kind of interesting stuff.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

Mouse and around is fantastic. It sure is like any you know, any system 11, man.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

Oh, yeah, I know, yeah. Yeah, we had a part uh Elvira and the party monsters here for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Get yourself a radical. I know, yeah, fantastic. That's a team that it could be remade. It could be remade.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

Tony Hawk's ProS Skater from oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

I mean the guy works for American Pinball now, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_03 30:01

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Did you know that?

SPEAKER_03 30:03

The who the guy that did Tony Hawk?

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Uh Mark Knights uh Knigel or Knightsy Knightsel. And uh he got hired by Electric Playground, which is famous for toppers, and him and Robin from Electric Playground are now uh working at American Pinball. Wow, cool. Well, confirmed confirmed. Well, I mean they they announced it. I didn't understand it. Oh, okay. All right. They are officially there, they were at TPF, they were wearing American Pinball t-shirts. So there we go. Pretty confident. Yeah. All right, and then uh the last one that we're supposed to see is potentially Halo from CGC.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Okay, really? From CGC. That's I remember hearing that and thinking, wow, that's crazy. Um, yeah, that would be hard to resist. Um, I love me some Halo.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:06

OG Xbox is one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

But the problem with CGC and Halo is you might not get it. You might get you know the Yukon Yeti before you get the uh Halo.

SPEAKER_03 31:18

Yukon Yeti. I I'm so glad they brought on uh Chris Graner for the music. Because when I saw that, I'm like, wow, the play field looks amazing. I like the shots, it looks really fun to play. That music is tragically not cut.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Poor Chris Turner. I'm gonna give you a Chris Turner story. Okay. We're sitting at uh TPF, yeah, and I think I'm hot shit because I got myself one of these VIP badges and I can walk around. And it's Thursday evening, and the place is closing down for anyone to bring in any games. And Chris Turner arrives 15 minutes before they close the doors, and he's got to get his uh two Merlins. No, it's one Merlin and it's two Yukon Yetis in there. And everyone who has this red badge is talking to Chris Turner, and he's like the nicest person on the planet, he really is, and he's like freaking out because he's got 15 minutes and everyone is just hounding him. But when you're standing in line, the lines for that game were brutal. Yeah, I believe it at TPF, they were brutal, but every person to a man said to him the sounds, yeah, sounds not there, and he took it, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:41

He I've noticed that he is really good at taking feedback in, and that tells me that the that company is gonna do really well.

SPEAKER_01 32:49

Um, because on their games though, Co.

SPEAKER_03 32:53

Yeah, it looks it does. I think Turner Pinball is gonna be really one to watch out for moving quick. I mean, already I feel like Yukon Yeti is a big step in the right direction. Um, and you got Dennis Nordman, you got uh beloved, I mean Whitewater. I love Whitewater, so you're taking that and working off that that mech with the the Avalanche mech is killer. It is um hard to get, yeah, and now you have Chris Granor doing the music. The art package, you know. If there's one more piece of feedback there, I don't like the cabinet art.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

Um yeah, I really that family friendly type.

SPEAKER_03 33:31

Well, yeah. But if if you could get um, I don't know, maybe um uh who's the guy that does all the oh, I'm blanking on his name right now. I have his attack from ours band, not Franchie. I was texting Allen, yeah. Brian Allen, maybe get Brian Allen.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Yeah, but he might have a Yeti like eating someone. Right.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

I mean we might yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

That's nice.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

Yeti should be ripping the head off and blood should be coming all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

I mean, I don't think Chris Sterners are gonna go for that.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Well, I mean I buy it.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that one.

SPEAKER_03 34:14

So but but yes, awesome. Chris Craner, that is gonna be he's gonna crush it, and I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

And you know, we're not hearing much from Barrels of Fun. They're they're very tight-lipped over there. Someone is throwing out G.I. Joe or He-Man.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Well, I know who would be buying He-Man.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Who's that?

SPEAKER_03 34:33

Rachel.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Yeah, Rachel. She'll buy He-Man. Yeah, uh but would you buy any of those? Would any of those do they talk to you?

SPEAKER_03 34:42

Uh I like them, but I I wouldn't feel compelled to have to have them.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

Okay. It's not a sight on scene yet. So that's really what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 34:51

Yeah, if we're talking sight on scene, it's like, yeah, fallout, boom, done.

unknown 34:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

Um I'm still waiting for my Mad Max. You know, yeah. I want a redo of RoboCop. Why is that? I guess it's not uh gonna sell enough units now, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 35:10

Robocop?

SPEAKER_03 35:12

Yeah. I wanted we I like the one from the Data East one from the 80s, but boy, you could do a lot with the RoboCop. That first movie is super violent and cool. Violent though. Yeah, that's good. I want to see the na na na na na na na the arm blowing off. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

When that guy gets in that badass, oh I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

That should be a whole mode. And then can you find Bobby?

SPEAKER_01 35:42

Yeah, I saw that movie, me and you both saw that movie way too young.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Okay, and when he does that, no, no, no, no, no, that freaked me out, man. I think I think that's good stuff. I think I slept on the floor for weeks.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

Uh all right. So that's those are the pins that are potentially coming out, and that's where we know what's going on. But I think at the quarter drop, uh if I were to say Eureka, they're definitely getting the Transformers, they're definitely getting the Fala and a Sonic out of those. So that'll be fun, you know, having here five minutes walk from my house. So that's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 36:24

Um what else did I want to talk about? Oh, give me your earnings report.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Uh now to Rachel and Cale of Electric Badcast. We're not stealing anything from you. We're just doing a little. I want to know what the quarter drop is earning with not, you know, mod. We don't need to.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

I know what you mean. Yeah, like what does well and what doesn't do well.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

What does well? What's kicking butter?

SPEAKER_03 36:48

Well, there's three specific categories within the quarter drop. There's the classic row, which is you know, the mispaced mans, the altered beasts, the bad dudes, right? Stuff like that. Those earn the least as far as the overall picture of the arcade. Um, out of those ones, the one that earns the least amount would be Turbo Outrun. Um that doesn't make hardly anything. Which is it's yeah, it makes like four dollars a week. I mean, yeah, yeah. More than it's an all-time Sega classic. People are crazy that they don't play that. I don't get it. But um, but people don't play. Yeah, I consult with people still, even though I haven't been doing a lot of content creation lately, but because of the whole you know following I built up leading up to this arcade, people call me and they're like, I'm opening an arcade because I watched your journey and I yeah. And they they tell me things like I I I have a 2,000 square foot building and I'm doing all classics. I'm like, oh my gosh, okay. I I'm like, I just so you know, I would be out of business like in the first month if I if I would just had classics, because I love that stuff, it's my favorite things. Um I have and I dedicate you know half the arcade to it because I love it so much, but it does not make any money because one repair on Miss Pac-Man is a month of earnings on that machine, so you know it's like it's you you have it there as a uh value proposition, object, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

So I rid of it, would anybody really notice?

SPEAKER_03 38:26

Yeah, because there's I I got people that come in and play Miss Pac-Man every day, but still it's a quarter of play, and it's not you know. So Miss Pac-Man is the probably the number one earner in the classics row. Okay, and then lethal enforcers, anything that has a gun or a wheel usually does pretty well, uh, especially the guns. Um, those so lethal enforcers does well, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

Isn't that the one where the guy is holding up a bank, and if you shoot the the uh the whatever, the the innocent yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:00

Okay, and this speaking of people they oh it's one of my favorites. I mean, my my classics row is really like filled with some pretty heavy hitters. Um and I love them so much, and I have they're all original, they all have CRT monitors, they all have the right joysticks. I mean, it's a labor of love for sure, but like lethal enforcers, you know, it says shoot here to reload, and you have to reload by shooting there. Yeah. Speaking of no one reading, people go up to it, they put their money into it, they fire, and then it like they're out of ammo and they don't know what's going on, and they just get mad and they start hitting the gun on the ads, like it's crazy. And I can see it right here, so I go, Oh no, you gotta shoot there to reload, and then you gotta go up and walk and point to it, and they're dead by then. It's a game over, yeah. It's it's comical, really. Yeah, but um, yeah, so that's the classics. Okay. Okay. Then we have pinball, which you know is got my heart. I love pinball. I play it every day. We have a pinball team. Did I talk about this last time? We have a home team. Uh, we get together every Thursday and we play, uh, we stream pinball, but we get together almost every night and we play together, and we have jerseys and we go to other tournaments, and it's really a family. Um, and we play pinball just about every night. And so as far as pinball earnings reports, that's what we're doing. Um attack for Mars, Pokemon, those are right now probably the top earners.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

Uh Godzilla and Alien are always right kind of there too. So those are like the top echelon. Um lowest earners right now would be 007 and D.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:55

Um, I don't know how close encounter is gonna do because I just got it working. Um, so yeah, that's that's you know, but they're all honestly, pinball does pretty good here, which is nice. Um yeah, they I mean they do great. Like Pokemon is doing crazy good. Um but yeah, they're all solved, which is wonderful. Um so I can afford to buy other pinball machines, which is nice. But then there's this side of the arcade, which is all the ticket machines and prize machines.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

And that's where all the money comes from. It's not even close. Yep. So I I've really now I've made a hard rule. I will not dedicate more than half of the arcade to this to those machines because I really want when you come in, I want you know to go, oh my god, look at these original beautiful machines, and look at all these great pinball machines, and uh people can enjoy that. But then we have half the arcade that is ticket games. And um, I've gotten a lot of new machines. So I have a price is right Plinko coin pusher. Um, that thing destroys earnings. I mean, it's you know, it's like all the pinball row together. You know, that's that we're talking like that. Yeah, it's not yeah, I mean, it destroys earnings. That's why I tell try to tell people when they um are opening an arcade. It's like it's you kind of need to have that because it's really expensive. There's a lot of overhead. Um you know, it adds up. Running an arcade is not cheap, it's very expensive. And having you want the machines to crush like that. And then I have uh SpongeBob, which still's a top earner, has been ever since I opened up. That was used to be the number one, but now it's like number three. Um, and then I have a game called Wonder Wheel. Any game where you fast where you put a quarter in, rapid fire. Yeah. Yeah, you get you just sit there and rapid fire. Um, so yeah, that that's and then the lowest earning ones. I have um a game called Sports Arena that doesn't make that much, and I'm gonna replace that with a Zoltar. Um that's next, that's my next purchase. I'm buying a Zoltar. And um, I have a machine called Skittle Ball, which is fun, but it doesn't earn as much as some of the other ones, and I haven't decided what I'm gonna put there yet. That'll be after that, after Zoltar. Yeah, so it's fun. I mean, I've come to love ticket machines. Yeah, they're my favorite. No, they're not, they're not my favorite, but they they're you know, they're essential. It's it's great. And you know what though? Also, it's not just about me. I've this is one of the things I've learned with opening an arcade is like I don't play the ticket games, right? I'm not I don't love them, but it's not about me. That's what people want to play. Like, do you want people to come to your arcade and have fun? If I didn't have claw machines and I didn't have ticket machines, All these people, you know, that come through here would not first of all they wouldn't come and they wouldn't be having fun. And all these families and all these kids that have a blast that running around their bundles of tickets thrilled, they wouldn't none of that would happen. So win it's great. It's a win.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

So for these people that are texting you and I aming you and saying I'm opening an arcade, give them, you know, listen to this podcast, okay?

SPEAKER_03 44:27

Shout out to Launchpad Arcade, Chip over there, who owns it. He just opened up and he was one of the first people that called me and he was gonna do all classics, and he took my advice, and he has SpongeBob and a bunch of other machines that I have here, and he opened up and he's crushing it.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

Yeah, right. How about a pop a shot? I don't know if you listen to the I don't have enough room. You know, are they too tall?

SPEAKER_03 44:55

Yeah, too tall. Yeah. I thought I would love to, but yeah. I have a ice ball, a ski ball.

unknown 45:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

Yeah. Very good. Oh yeah. It destroys.

SPEAKER_02 45:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:09

That was when I first opened up, that was uh the outside vendor owned that, and I bought that from them immediately. Um it's paid itself off, you know, a hundred times over. Um these machines, like that's the thing about uh claw machine. Like, I just bought a brand new, uh, beautiful Galaxy Claw Machine. It was very expensive, and it's beautiful, it's amazing. It paid itself off in two weeks. I mean, it's the ROI on these, a pinball machine. You buy a$10,000 pinball machine, it's gonna take a long time to pay itself off. I mean, you get you get the money back when you sell it. You don't even really like it just yeah. Uh so it's not even like you know, it's crazy. Yeah, I bought that price right coin flusher for$500. It paid itself off in two days. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's not yeah, it's that so it's uh it's it's wild.

SPEAKER_01 46:05

Well, that is awesome. I'm loving this these reports from you, right? And it's been way too long since we've recorded together, and that's my fault. Oh uh, you're running an arcade, but I know we're we're we're so used to seeing you on a daily basis on our feeds, and that went away. What happened? I know.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

I feel so I almost I feel kind of guilty about it, but the reality every day I know I love sharing arcade history in the quarter shop of people. Um so those videos take an hour for me to write, an hour for me to film and edit, and then the time to post, right? And then respond to all comments. I the arcade, when I opened the arcade, I assumed it, you know, this is a small town I live in. I'm like, oh, people will come and go, and you know, I'll have time to do all this stuff. It's not like that, it's busy all the time. Um, and I'm running the arcade, it's really hard for me, and I'm working long hours, so I had to really kind of look at where I'm spending my time, and that one was a big chunk of time, and uh, it's like I need to find that balance where I can share more. But the reality is with the sharing the social media, it's like it's really good for the arcade, but a lot of the people they even now they come, they're like, we were driving down the five freeway and we just wanted to come see the quarter job, and they they talk to you and they're lovely people and very nice, and I'm grateful for it. But it doesn't, they don't really like I don't know, participate in the arcade as much as like a family, a local family would. So I can spend uh a minute writing a local Facebook group post that I put on you know what's going on in Cottage Grove, and you get three, four, five families down here with their kids, and that's actually benefiting the arcades overall much more than spending two hours um doing a reel, even though I'm getting way more views on the reels, but it's more of a global thing than in a local thing. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Um the ROI is not there because not everything is about ROI.

SPEAKER_03 48:15

I truly I do try to balance that. Um but so I was like every day. I know, I know. It's rough. I miss it. Honestly, I do miss it. And I should I should try to get back in the rhythm of doing like even if it's one a week or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Do you think uh and I think content creators get caught up in this? I hate the jam content creators, but whatever we are. We overthink it. Like I've getted to the point where I just take my Osmo Pocket 3 and just start talking to it. Yeah, and and I'll film from three to four ideas in a row, and I'll just throw it out there. And sometimes they hit, sometimes they don't hit, sometimes I I I record it and and then I always edit and cap cut, it's the easiest thing in the world, right? I just cap cut it, and then I'll play it back, and or I'll play it for Janine and my wife, and she's like, No, that's terrible. You're better than that. And I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:16

Well, but I mean that is great. The only problem for me, at least, is that every single video on my feed is the exact same format. Um, if I just start doing that, it's like, I don't know, it's it throws everything off, doesn't it? Maybe I am overthinking it, but I don't yeah. Well, but people want to see me walk to the camera and stop on the thing and do the whole thing. I gotta have my jacket on. It's you know, I mean, if I'm gonna make another video, I gotta do it right, I suppose. But I don't know. I have the jacket hanging up right back there.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

You you can literally just take your phone and just do, hey, here's what's happened at the quarter drop this week. Yeah, that once a week, you know.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

Yeah, I know. Yeah. I I do need to figure out um it's that that balance, right? You know, it's finding that balance. And uh I think uh this first year, I mean, where did we pass our first year? We're a year and two, three months are now, um, which is amazing. It goes by really quick. I can't believe that. It's been so just such a wild ride. It's like always new machines coming in, always busy. Um and just kind of the whole thing and learning to repair, that's another thing. It's like I'm repairing stuff every single day. Right. I mean, today I I fixed a res I had to resolder a resistor on the board of Kookie Carnival. Um, I had to, I have a wheel that's sticking on prices right. Um Close Encounters of Third Kind got fixed finally after 30 years of sitting dormant. Um, and there's one more thing I fixed too, and I can't even remember now. That's just today.

SPEAKER_01 50:56

That's just today.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

On a Thursday, which is like one of our steaming. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 51:04

You have no technical expertise, like I have no technical expertise. You know, I go and hang out with Rachel and Kale once or twice a year, and I'll just be hanging with Ralph because Rachel and Cale have work to do. Okay, they've got 70 pinball machines and they get repairs, you know.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

I mean, yeah, I've got 55 machines on the floor, but they're not all pinball. I yeah, pinball keeps you uh I mean, I love it, I really do enjoy working on the pinball machines. Um, but it keeps you busy. Yeah. So Kale and Rachel, I'm sure they have their hands full.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

Oh, yeah. Of course constantly. It's just a constant, but their games play great. I'm sure and I guarantee you the games play great at the quarter drop.

SPEAKER_03 51:47

Uh they I pride myself on having perfectly working machines, clean, flawless. And if they're not, I'll know it because I play them every day.

SPEAKER_01 51:59

So you know, and and that's the beauty of why I love the uh Eureka Heights and the bad and and and these great places that I go to is the machines are perfect.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:10

Okay, if you make a mistake, it's you made the mistake. The game didn't screw you, all right? Yeah, you made a mistake, so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

No, that's good, it's nice. And I I go to arcades all over the place because um I enjoy arcades and I want to see what other people are doing, and I do notice that generally speaking, the pinball machines are not well maintained, they're dirty, they're there's some kind of vital component broken.

SPEAKER_01 52:38

It's a lot of work, right? Like, you know, I I went on location to it this place in Paraland, had a Deadpool Pro to South Houston, and the scoop didn't work. Yeah, well, how the hell do you play Deadpool without a scoop working?

SPEAKER_02 52:55

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 52:56

You start about you can't do anything.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

And it happens. I had that happen to Godzilla just the other day. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna play Godzilla. Oh, scoop doesn't work, glass comes off. I resolved the you know, it gets fixed. It gets fixed. You're not playing, you're fixing.

SPEAKER_01 53:12

That's right. Yeah, well, we all miss you. Uh the community here, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_03 53:18

Uh I'm not dead. Everyone messages me and says, either am I dead, a health problem, or this is the most popular one. Is the quarter drop out of business? I'm like, no, it's the opposite. Uh it's yeah, it's definitely not out of business.

SPEAKER_01 53:34

Well, congratulations on your community success.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

Did I miss any subjects for us today? We're in an hour.

SPEAKER_03 53:42

I I think that was great.

SPEAKER_01 53:44

Okay, good. Uh, I was gonna do earnings report for Eureka Heights. Let me do it real quick. Go for it. And thank you, uh, Rachel Bess and uh Kale Hernandez for this excellent idea that we're gonna trademark Dean and they should trademark it, and I'll pay for it. But you know, it's so funny because John will come over, John uh Spates, who runs Eureka, he'll come over to my house and he'll pull out his phone and he gives me monthly numbers. We do our own earnings report in my backyard to no one. Okay, and what's so funny is what's printing money is Pokemon. Yeah, it is. It's just ridiculous the amount of families that come to this brewery and the kids will just park on Pokemon.

SPEAKER_03 54:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 54:35

Uh what's number two is Beetlejuice.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

Yeah, I believe it's whoever playing it.

SPEAKER_01 54:41

They're just playing it. It's worth the 10,000. They're getting that, they're getting a lot of playback from it. And the good thing about a Beetlejuice is hell, I mean, if it bores you after six months, which I doubt it would, and if it didn't become an earner, you could sell it because they only made a thousand of them.

SPEAKER_03 54:57

Yeah, you sell for maybe even more than we paid for it.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

Yeah, so you could be in good shape there, and then Harry Potter. Yeah, yeah, those are the three earners.

SPEAKER_03 55:06

That that sounds right.

SPEAKER_01 55:09

And then I uh oh, and the guitar hero. So they just moved the guitar hero in. Oh boy, and and it's loud.

SPEAKER_03 55:19

I was gonna say that's that's why I don't have one. I don't want to listen to it. And this this is not big enough of an arcade, it'd be too loud, it'd be constant.

SPEAKER_01 55:28

Yeah, it's loud, but they're they're gonna build an arcade row. I'm trying to convince them to get a pop a shot.

SPEAKER_03 55:34

Oh, cool. Eureka doesn't want to get claw machines if they want to make that cheddar.

SPEAKER_01 55:40

Yeah, I think they're gonna try. I I I well, listen, you're you're they're listening.

SPEAKER_03 55:45

Okay, well, Pokemon may crush, it doesn't do as much as a claw machine. I could tell you that much.

SPEAKER_01 55:53

What did Rachel say the first time we interviewed her in the first episode?

SPEAKER_03 55:57

Yeah, her uh the suction claw machine she has. That's why I I bought I have now like four of them because it's like course, people want them too. They come in, they go, You got claw machines? I'm like, Yeah, I got a bunch of them. Like, oh yes. You're not asking about Pac-Man.

SPEAKER_01 56:19

No, I don't get it either, but yeah, yeah. What's the name of the game where you would put like an iPhone in the back and it does like this bricklayer thing?

SPEAKER_03 56:30

Oh, yes, stacker.

SPEAKER_01 56:31

Stacker.

SPEAKER_03 56:32

My kids quite oh yeah, stacker, all those, yeah. Any prize redemption, anything. Yeah, that's a good one, at least. It's yeah. That's a good thing. Yeah, there's a reason that's what you like. If you go to any modern arcade, there's a reason you see the machines you do. I mean, yeah, that's not by accident. You have to to to do like what I do here, or what um like Kale and Rachel with their because they have older machines too. You just have to really be passionate about it. Like you have to like you want to spend a bunch of money keeping an altar beast thrown in and looking good because you really care about that machine. You know, there's no other reason to do it, it's just taking up space, it doesn't earn money, so there's no reason. It has to be a passion.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

Well said, Co from the Quarter Drop Arcade in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Uh, check him out on all the socials. He's gonna post a little more, ladies and gentlemen. Don't worry. But uh, if you are ever in Oregon, there's the only one reason to go up there, and that's to Cottage Grove.

SPEAKER_02 57:37

Yeah, play some classics.

SPEAKER_01 57:39

Play a wide variety of machines and have one. See a really cool dude named Jamie. Uh that's all for me. Roundtable, couple weeks. Uh you know, we only like to do it every three or four weeks. We don't want to inundate the people. And too much, Jamie. You don't need enough.

SPEAKER_03 57:59

No. What? We want more roundtables.

SPEAKER_01 58:02

It is fun. I'm having a blast.

SPEAKER_03 58:05

Oh, yeah. That's that's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:08

All right, co, thank you so much. This has been Arcades Across America with my co-host Co. I am Jamie Birchell, and uh this will be up, I think, Friday. Since it's late for me, I gotta go to bed.

SPEAKER_03 58:22

I know, right? I've been out of here.

SPEAKER_01 58:27

So let's get in and out of here, ladies and gentlemen. This has been fun reminiscing and talking to my friend. I miss you, and I hope all is well. And uh visit the quarter drop arcade whenever you're up there, ladies and gentlemen.