Quoted from frolic:

I can only laugh a little about what might have been for jpop if he wasn't a mental case that threw away a million dollars of the hobby's money on hubris and ego.
He could have returned like Brian Eddy as a conquering hero, with his own famous "pinball trilogy" and everyone would have been celebrating for him to be back in pinball at Stern or something.

Quoted from Aurich:

Maybe. I can't help but think the market isn't big enough to sustain all of this, the excitement may turn into some deathwatching too. Who knows, not like any of us have access to numbers, but the prices keep going up, new companies keep appearing, and everyone I know is out of space for games. I know, we have a stupid bubble thread every other month, but is this all really sustainable?
Brian Eddy is one of my all time favs, I wish him nothing but the best of luck.

Quoted from benheck:

Isn't Brian also a programmer? Isn't that what Stern really needs these days?