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Coe - Quarter Drop Arcade - Episode 35

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Send us Fan Mail Episode 35 – Coe from Quarter Drop Arcade. Coe sits down virtually with Jamie and discusses life growing up with arcades, the switch to Console Gaming in the 80s & 90s, the Quarter...

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Highlights

  • Coe currently has 37 coin-operated machines with plans to reach 50 machines at Quarter Drop Arcade
  • Quarter Drop Arcade will use real quarters instead of cards or tokens
  • Coe's most popular Instagram video is about carpet, with 317,000 views
  • The arcade will focus on games from the 1980s to late 1990s era
  • Wormhole (existing venue) has 23 machines on the floor and 200+ in their collection
  • Coe is knee-deep in negotiations for a location but hasn't officially announced it
  • Pinball Brothers fixed the Aliens Pinball machine design issues that plagued Heighway versions
  • Coe's motivation for Quarter Drop Arcade is not about making money

Notable quotes

“I want the arcade to be the best arcade possible because more money means better machines, better maintained machines, better experience overall.”
Coe
“that was part of the experience using actual quarters, not the card. I was going to ask, are you going to use tokens? I'm using quarters. It would be ridiculous if you used tokens.”
Coe
“I'm trying to really emulate what that experience was like back in the day... I want the machines to be affordable because that's another motivator for me. It's like you can't take a family. If you have a family of four, you can't go anywhere without spending one hundred, two hundred dollars.”
Coe
“Pinball in particular... The whole package is an art form.”
Coe
“It's about recreating that authentic arcade experience that I felt like I watched die off and kind of like tragically in the 90s and late 90s... and then like the avalanche of just every one of your favorite arcades one after another dying going away.”
Coe

Entities

  • Quarter Drop Arcade· business
  • Wormhole Pinball· business
  • Heighway Pinball· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • Cottage Grove· location
  • Coe· person
  • Jamie Burchell· person
  • Moon· person
  • Scott Denise· person
  • Aliens (pinball)· product

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