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Arcades Across America Part 3 - Past Times Arcade and Free Gold Watch - Episode 44

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Send us Fan Mail Arcades Across America Part 3 - Episode 44. Jamie sits down with a roundtable of Arcade Owners and Operators with his “Coe-Host”, Coe from Quarter Drop Arcade. Joining them are...

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Highlights

  • Pastimes Arcade has over 600 games in its collection (pinball and video combined)
  • Rob Burke is bringing 150 games to the 40th Pinball Expo, requiring two semis and four 24-foot trucks
  • The 2024 Pinball Expo will feature 36 homebrew games
  • Free Gold Watch started with four pinball machines (Terminator 2, Whitewater, Jurassic Park, and Whirlwind) and has grown to approximately 60 machines
  • The original Pinball Expo was founded 40 years ago (1985) by Rob Burke to recognize pinball designers and artists
  • Over 300 international registrations for the 2024 Pinball Expo, with attendees from outside the U.S.
  • Pastimes Arcade was housed in a 30,000-square-foot former grocery store purchased for approximately $100,000
  • Free Gold Watch operates as a communal arcade with 12-14 different independent operators running machines on the floor

Notable quotes

“If you're going to do this make it a museum so the whole world can enjoy it”
Rob Burke's wife
“Are you fucking crazy? There's only two of those in the world. You're so lucky to even play one of them.”
Chris Koontz (Pinball Pirate)
“It's what we call here in Ohio Passion. So you got to have the passion. It's beyond love it's passion.”
Rob Burke
“These four gentlemen are responsible for designing over 600 games. Well, everyone stood up and applauded. These guys had tears in their eyes. They couldn't believe it. No one had ever recognized them.”
Rob Burke
“I have met so many of my friends and places I've traveled and things I've done now have all been connected to pinball... this group of people have been it's it's hard for me to even put it into words, but it's just such a great community”
Matt Henry
“You can actually hear the ball rolling, which you don't really get in the modern games... That's always special.”
Ko (Quarter Drop Arcade)
“Instead of taking this money home and spending it on some bullshit, I'm going to see if they got this camera”
Matt Henry
“We have over 110 speakers. Imagine this, over 110 vendors... for the 40 people, come on.”
Rob Burke

Entities

  • Houston Arcade Expo· event
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • Dutch Pinball· organization
  • Free Gold Watch· organization
  • HEXA Pinball· organization
  • Pastimes Arcade· organization
  • Pinball Brothers· organization
  • Pinball Hall of Fame· organization
  • Pinball Pirate· organization
  • Quarter Drop Arcade· organization
  • Wormhole Pinball· organization
  • Chris Koontz· person
  • Harvey Heist· person
  • Jamie Virtuell· person
  • Ko· person
  • Mark· person
  • Matthew Henry· person
  • Norm Clark· person
  • Norm Clark, Steve Kodak, Wayne Nines, Harvey Heist· person
  • Rob Burke· person
  • Ron Kuhn· person
  • Steve Kodak· person
  • Tim Arnold· person

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