Ep 90: Living the Dream with Jerry Thompson

“pinball is kind of like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter what you do or if you have a hundred machines or none. You just love pinball. And so everybody's an equal at that point.”

“my thing about radio is I did a lot of cool stuff over the years, but it was all disposable. I mean, I voiced thousands of radio and TV commercials and still do. I mean, I have a lot of clients still, but that all goes away. Whereas pinball is something that, you know, 20 years from now, I'll be able to stand in front of that, if I'm still alive, knock on wood, and say, wow, I did that.”

“my first thing. I wanted Ghostbusters to sound like the 80s. So, you know, those cheesy synth sounds from the 80s.”

“the biggest thing to me is immersion, you know, because that's one of the things I love about what Chris Graner did in The Lord of the Rings and in Indiana Jones. And just, you know, any game. I don't want to do anything that ever takes anybody out of the game.”

“I'm doing this with the rules. I want you to know all of it. And I go, my brain doesn't work like yours. You know, you're, I don't, I can't grasp all that, you know?”

“You know, when you hit something and what you're seeing on the screen is in stereo in your headphones, it is really cool.”

“I love playing the games at home because I can hear them. Like location games, that's one thing that feels distant to me is because a lot of times the location games have the volume turned really low or everything's so loud that you can't really appreciate the sound package.”

“Well, I usually say when somebody says they have an issue with something, I usually say not my department. But I guess this is kind of my department.”