Programming a pinball machine with 50 switches and 100 lights is not rocket science people. Get real.

Complex software is Artificial Intelligence, shooting a missile from a submarine to a 3x3 pinpoint 1200 miles away, programming a self driving car or how about bionics?

It takes these guys longer to program a simple game than for Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.

I took Lawler almost as long to create DI as Egyptians took to build a pyramid by hand.

People think that these designers are so overworked. Please dont tell me that Lawler worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 46 weeks a year and for 4-5 years and come out with this pinball. Ritchie used to come out with multiple games per year and now it takes 3 years for one.

Negotiating a pinball license? This is entry level legal work compared to what corporations negotiate on a daily basis. Stern and jjp are milking people for every penny they can like politicians do.

Let's see these programmers build new routing code for the internet or send a probe to mars and I'll bow to them.

Machines cost more today than ever in history. The big manufacturers are building these machines for lower cost per unit than ever before as well.

This industry is not rocket science.