Everyone is going on about how they should staff up and build more games faster.

But what happens when RM is done? Now he has staff he doesn’t want to fire so he’s forced to build that larger number of games going forward, to have the higher overhead, having to maintain that much larger company.

They operate at the scale they’re happy with and feel is sustainable. Despite its current popularity, pinball isn’t a growth industry. Staying small is the smart play - 500 machines a year is a sales target that is sustainable for when the bottom drops out and there’s only demand for boutique games. It’s enough to pay the overhead and hopefully make some profit. Why get greedy?

Think of it like any hobby business that isn’t mainstream anymore. There used to be blacksmiths on every corner, but now horses are a tiny fringe hobby so there’s a small group of low volume blacksmiths. That’s Spooky.

That video is the biggest waste of time I've ever seen. Talk about inventing a bunch of bullshit from nothing.

Nitro. But I’m not sure I’d want to spend money with them.

Just order direct.

Jeez people, just let the poor bastards build games the way they like. Was there a sale on armchairs or something?

And that guy who wrote the novel about the fang club - calm the eff down.

Are you sure they're committed to P-ROC? I heard Ben has made a cheap P-ROC clone he's been pushing, because that's what the pinball world needs, yet another one-off, proprietary pinball controller...

I'd like to see some high res photos of the playfield and cabinet, please. Thanks!

So many people who can’t read. Sigh.

If you guys are jonesing to make a mod, consider replacing the dome on the spaceship with a clear one, putting an angled mirror inside it and then have a screen sitting on the bottom of the ship pointing up. Pepper's Ghost.

Then you can have video of Rick and Morty in the ship. Have it react to things.

What is it with you people? This has been done to death and ISN'T FUN. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I know, let's have Freedom of Expression Multiball!

I think Spooky should ride the FOMO hard.

Games 1-10 are $20,000. Game 11-20 are $15,000. And so on until maybe 50 when it becomes regular price.

Might as well turn all that whining into cold hard cash.

My second thought after "Wow that's amazing" was "I just know someone is going to complain about the free topper."

I guess I'm just a negative person. I hope I'm wrong!

Gold

I think complaining about tape and the type of poster inside the tube is a new low for Pinside.

I used to think I was super negative but I’m Mary fucking Poppins compared to you guys.

I absolutely howled watching you AARP mofos lose your mind in confusion over the stream. Couldn’t be a bigger bunch of old people stereotypes if you tried. Sigh.

All of you

You should be thankful people under retirement age have any interest in pinball at all.

No, make it worth negative points. Reward letting it time out.

Costs 100 points to bail. Costs points to pop ballons. The only way to get points is to stand there and let it time out. I guess I'm a sadist.

Probably for the best.

Not sure why harping on the past is useful. They addressed the playfield issue and now - the current product - is fixed. They fixed it. Move the fuck on.