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Arcades Across America - The Growth of Quarter Drop Arcade

JBS Show·podcast_episode·58m 59s·analyzed·Apr 24, 2026
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TL;DR

Ko discusses Quarter Drop Arcade's growth to 10 pins and selective acquisition strategy focused on unique machines.

Summary

Jamie Burchill interviews Ko (Coe), operator of Quarter Drop Arcade in Cottage Grove, Oregon, about his growing 10-machine pinball lineup, expansion plans for a private speakeasy-style pinball club on the second floor, and his selective approach to acquiring games. Ko discusses his current machines, explains why he sold Kong and Fallout of the Empire, expresses interest in Keith Elwin's Fallout and other upcoming releases, and details his strategy of maintaining unique machines not found in nearby Eugene.

Key Claims

  • Quarter Drop Arcade now has 10 pinball machines and cannot fit more without expansion

    high confidence · Ko states: 'I think you get 10. Yeah, and I can't fit anymore. That's all the room I have for pins.'

  • Ko is considering a second-floor expansion with a private pinball club speakeasy, estimated at $100-200K for structural reinforcement

    high confidence · Ko describes plans for 'a private pinball club, speakeasy style, keyless cart access, maybe a bookshelf that opens up' and mentions 'probably 100, 200K or something like that' for floor reinforcement.

  • The building housing Quarter Drop Arcade is 114 years old and historically designated, creating insurance complications for expansion

    high confidence · Ko states: 'This building is a historical building. It's 114 years old... there's a lot of gray area' regarding insurance for alterations.

  • Pokemon Pro is a strong earner despite Ko's indifference to the theme, attracting non-pinball players and kids

    high confidence · Ko says: 'People that don't play pinball, they gravitate towards Pokemon like you wouldn't believe... It crushes earnings.'

  • Ko sold Kong and Fallout of the Empire because they didn't resonate with his personal play preferences, despite profitability

    high confidence · Ko explains: 'if it's not fun, it's not staying here' and 'I've never sold a pinball machine quicker than I sold that one' regarding Fallout of the Empire.

  • Ko deliberately avoids duplicating machines found in Eugene or nearby cities, using Pinball Map to check availability before purchasing

    high confidence · Ko states: 'before I buy a machine, I make sure nobody has one anywhere near me... I'm not buying it if somebody has one in Eugene.'

  • Keith Elwin's Fallout pinball is confirmed to be based on the Amazon series and will feature Walter Goggins character

    high confidence · Ko says: 'it's based on the Amazon series. So you're going to see a lot of that Walter Goggins character' and commits 'You're in on Keith Elwin's Fallout. Yes.'

Notable Quotes

  • “if it's not fun, it's not staying here. And that one, the Death Star shot was that whole thing. There was nothing interesting about it.”

    Ko @ ~18:00 — Demonstrates Ko's core principle for machine selection—personal gameplay experience trumps earnings potential.

  • “I've never sold a pinball machine quicker than I sold that one. The guys in Eureka, it's not earning there.”

    Ko @ ~17:30 — Shows Ko's willingness to cut underperforming machines despite initial investment; reveals operator philosophy differs from collector philosophy.

  • “before I buy a machine, I make sure nobody has one anywhere near me... I'm not buying it if somebody has one in Eugene.”

    Ko @ ~32:00 — Key business strategy: Ko intentionally curates unique machines to differentiate his venue and attract players from larger nearby cities.

  • “Jersey Jacks are a little bit, it's kind of hard to explain, but to me, they're like the Disney of pinball. And I don't connect usually with them because there's, they're a little too polished.”

    Ko @ ~42:00 — Reveals personal aesthetic preference and explains why Ko has never owned a JJP machine despite their quality reputation.

  • “Yeah, Fallout, boom, done. Okay. I'm still waiting for my Mad Max.”

    Ko @ ~52:00 — Ko signals that Fallout is a definite purchase (sight unseen), while expressing desire for other classic IP remakes.

  • “I don't know. It's not something that I'm passionate about, like I am other things from the 80s.”

    Ko @ ~38:00 — Explains hesitation on Goonies—despite it being an Oregon icon and strong earner, personal passion drives acquisition decisions.

  • “Chris Turner... he's like the nicest person on the planet... every person to a man said to him, the sounds, the sound is not there.”

    Jamie @ ~58:00 — Praises Turner Pinball's receptiveness to feedback; suggests customer input directly influences manufacturing decisions at emerging companies.

Entities

KopersonJamie BurchillpersonQuarter Drop ArcadevenueKeith ElwinpersonElliott EisminpersonPat LawlerpersonEurekavenueDougpersonStern Pinballcompany

Signals

  • ?

    venue_signal: Ko planning significant second-floor expansion at Quarter Drop Arcade with private speakeasy-style pinball club ($100-200K investment, but regulatory/insurance complications from 114-year-old historic building status)

    high · Ko states: 'a private pinball club, speakeasy style, keyless cart access... probably 100, 200K or something like that' but notes 'there's a lot of gray area' for insurance on historic building alterations.

  • $

    market_signal: Nearby Eureka arcade expanded from 7 to 26 machines with all-new inventory (Stern, JJP, Spooky rows), suggesting strong demand and business growth in regional arcade market

    high · Ko reports: 'they've gone from seven machines to 26... They have a massive Stern row, a couple of Jersey Jacks, and then they have a Spooky Row.'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Ko's deliberate strategy to stock unique machines not found in nearby Eugene/Roseburg to differentiate venue and attract regional players via Pinball Map

    high · Ko: 'before I buy a machine, I make sure nobody has one anywhere near me... I'm not buying it if somebody has one in Eugene.'

  • ?

    product_concern: Pokemon Pro missing achievements update from Stern for extended period; community frustration about delayed code release

    high · Ko: 'We're waiting for [Pokemon Worldwide] to accept that email... Come on' and 'if anyone forwarded this little clip to them, that would be great.'

  • ?

    operational_signal: Ko prioritizes gameplay fun and venue earnings over personal theme preference; sold Kong and Fallout of the Empire because they didn't engage him personally despite being profitable

Transcript

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0:00
Today on the podcast, Jamie catches up with longtime friend of the show and operator of the Quarter Drop Arcade in Cottage Grove, Oregon. It's Coe. Welcome back, buddy. And thanks for listening today on the Jamie Burchill Show. Hello and welcome to an edition of Arcades Across America with my friend Ko from the Quarter Drop Arcade. Ko, it's been way too long since we've done one of these. How are you, sir? I'm doing wonderful, Jamie. It's so good to be here when you contacted me and said you want to do this. I was very excited because I've done a lot of work with it. I miss you, buddy. How are things at the quarter drop? Talk to me, Goose. I mean, it couldn't be better. It's amazing. The arcade is wonderfully busy all the time. Awesome. I'm enjoying the experience of owning the arcade and running the arcade and operations and all that. I'm getting lots of cool new machines.
1:08
We're going to talk about that. Yeah, I've got some. I want to know your lineup. I've got some good stuff, including something that just happened today that's very exciting. And I've met so many friends and people in the community, and everyone just embraces the arcade, and it's like a family. It's beautiful. That's fantastic. Well, we miss you, buddy.
1:29
A lot has changed, I guess. I've been rocking with the roundtable and doing any of that. I don't know. Have you caught any of those episodes? I've caught them all. I lurk because I watch it on my TV. Oh, great. Yeah. Thank you. We need those YouTube views. Yep. I watch it on my TV and I watch every single one of them. Well, thank you, sir. Yes. And I've had a lot of fun with those two clowns. They're my buddies. You guys are perfect chemistry together. Oh, thank you. So let's talk lineup here. Okay. Yep. Last I checked, last we spoke, you had seven pins? That sounds about right. Okay. What are we rocking today? Okay. Are we up to 10, I think? Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 10 pins. Yeah, and I can't fit anymore. That's all the room I have for pins. What's happening? There was a potential second floor opportunity. Yeah, that's going to be a big project because we have the room up there, but I have to have a reinforced floor installed. Oh, yeah. And I mean, we're talking, you know, 100, 200K or something like that, probably. It's I mean, I would like to do it. But then also there's insurance. So this building is a historical building. It's 114 years old. OK. I may not be able to get that second floor insured because when you're altering such an old building, there's a lot of gray area. So that's a mate.

Mark Nitzel (or Nitzl) who worked on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been hired by American Pinball along with Robin from Electric Playground

high confidence · Jamie confirms: 'They were at TPF. They were wearing American Pinball t-shirts' and Ko vouches this as 'Confirmed.'

  • Yukon Yeti from Turner Pinball received consistent feedback about missing sound design at TPF

    high confidence · Jamie reports: 'every person to a man said to him, the sounds, the sound is not there' regarding Yukon Yeti at TPF.

  • Nearby Eureka arcade has expanded from 7 to 26 machines, all new stock, including seven Spooky machines

    high confidence · Ko states: 'The guys at Eureka... they've gone from seven machines to 26... They have a massive Stern row... they have a Spooky Row... they have seven spooky machines.'

  • “Yeti should be ripping the head off and blood should be going to the workplace.”

    Ko @ ~62:00 — Ko advocates for more aggressive/mature art direction on Yukon Yeti; reflects preference for edgy design over family-friendly aesthetics.

  • “I like to have machines from different eras... a diverse lineup is nice, you know.”

    Ko @ ~28:00 — Explains acquisition philosophy beyond just competitive/modern machines; values historical representation (electromechanical era).

  • “Pokemon, I didn't think would speak to me at all, and it did. So it's weird how, you know, you never know.”

    Ko @ ~16:00 — Demonstrates that theme appeal is unpredictable and gameplay quality can override thematic indifference.

    • Jersey Jack Pinball
    company
    Turner Pinballcompany
    Spooky Pinballcompany
    Chicago Gaming Companycompany
    American Pinballcompany
    Electric Playgroundcompany
    Mark Nitzelperson
    Chris Grainerperson
    Chris Turnerperson
    Dennis Nordmanperson
    Brian Allenperson
    Pinball Mapproduct
    IFPAorganization

    high · Ko: 'if it's not fun, it's not staying here' regarding machine retention decisions based on personal play experience.

  • ?

    industry_signal: Turner Pinball gaining industry respect through receptiveness to customer feedback; Chris Turner's openness at TPF signals strong company culture and iterative design approach

    high · Jamie: 'he is really good at taking feedback in, and that tells me that that company is going to do really well' and 'Turner Pinball is going to be really one to watch out for.'

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Mark Nitzel (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater designer) and Robin (Electric Playground) confirmed hired by American Pinball; spotted at TPF in company t-shirts

    high · Jamie confirms: 'They were at TPF. They were wearing American Pinball t-shirts' and Ko verifies 'Confirmed.'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: JJP machines have deep, complex rules that require extensive play/quarters to learn; Harry Potter cited as example of rules-heavy design that rewards mastery

    high · Ko: 'the rules are deep, right? You've really got to put a lot of quarters in to start figuring all this crap out.'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Ko perceives JJP machines as 'Disney of pinball'—over-polished, beautiful but lacking grit; prefers quirkier, older, less mainstream themes (Waterworld, Xenon, System 11 machines)

    high · Ko: 'Jersey Jacks are a little too polished... I kind of gravitate towards weird stuff... like a Waterworld... quirky older stuff.'

  • ?

    content_signal: Ko appears as regular guest/segment on Jamie Burchill Show's 'Arcades Across America' series; Jamie has insider access to industry rumors via roundtable

    high · Jamie mentions: 'I'm on the roundtable now. I have some access to these ridiculous rumors from my friends.'

  • ?

    product_launch: Transformers (Elliott Eismin), Fallout (Keith Elwin), and Sonic (JJP) confirmed or heavily rumored to launch by end of year; Ko committed to buying Fallout

    high · Ko: 'Fallout, boom, done' and Jamie confirms Transformers/Fallout timeline with roundtable access.

  • ?

    rumor_hype: Halo from CGC rumored but uncertain availability (may be delayed for Yukon Yeti production); GI Joe and He-Man from Barrels of Fun speculated but not confirmed; Ko desires Mad Max and RoboCop remakes

    medium · Jamie: 'potentially Halo from CGC' and 'you might not get it. You might get, you know, the Yukon Yeti before you get the Halo.'

    • 3:05
    Because I know you were talking maybe a party room up there with some more. Well, yeah, actually what I would if I do do the second floor part of it, the main chunk of it is going to be a private pinball club, speakeasy style, keyless cart access, maybe a bookshelf that opens up and then a lounge, a movie theater, a pool table and a bunch of really good pinball machines. And you pay it per month. It's not going to be cheap, but I have a lot of people that are very interested. I think you've got to build it. If you build it, they will come. You build the water drop. It's going to be pretty amazing if I do it, yeah. Well, good luck with that. So let's talk, you know, that would be just fantastic for you. I think that would be amazing. So I hope that happens for you. Me too.
    3:53
    But, you know, when you're dealing with government, who the hell knows, right? Yeah, I'll have the quotes done and then talk to the insurers. Yeah, who knows? All right, give me your pinball lineup. Ten machines. People want to know it. Yes. So Godzilla Premium, bolted to the ground. One of the greats. I mean, I love it. I play it all the time. I broke two billion recently. That was exciting. Although then I break two billion. I think, oh, good, I'm safe. And then Liam, who's on the home pinball team here, he almost broke three billion. He got 2.9 something. And I'm like, oh, my God, now I have to play Godzilla again. So that was a bummer. Yeah.
    4:37
    I mean, good job, Liam. Good job, Liam. Liam, but, you know. Beautiful Ripley's, believe it or not, that I fully just, I mean, I did everything. I modded it to the nines. It's got a custom topper. It's got, you know, art blades and color D&D and all the mods you can do to it. It's stunning. Powder-coated everything. I mean, it's really just beautiful. Well, that's a Pat Lawler that I like.
    5:07
    I am a Pat Lawler fan. Me too, yeah. I like a good Ripley's. Me too, yeah. I do too. I housed the Ripley's for a while. Did you? Yeah, I fell in love with it, you know, because I only have room for one or two. So when I house it, I go all in deep into the code, and that's a machine that I'm tough to beat at. Yeah. It's underrated. I don't know. Like, why is Twilight Zone $10,000 and Ripley's is like $4,000? It's weird to me, but I'm glad it was because I got a really good deal on it, and then I spent a lot of money making it perfect. Yeah. But that's another one that's bolted to the ground. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So we're down to? Yep. Fishtails. I don't own Fishtails. That's Doug, who's my – I call Doug Yoda. He's my repair guru tech. He's a 40-year veteran of arcade and pinball repair. He's a genius, and he helps me out here at the quarter shop, and I'm so thankful for it. Right. And I let him operate his Fishtails here, and people love it. There you go. Yep. And then we got Pokemon. Oh.
    6:22
    Pro. Yeah. I, you know, I assumed that it would be a big hit and I was correct. It's a big hit. It's got to be right. Wait till the achievements come. We're any day now. Yeah, where's the code, Stern? We're any day. It's not them. Come on. I can't post videos like a clown about it, but, you know, this is Pokemon Worldwide and we're waiting for them to accept that email. So if anyone forwarded this little clip to them, that would be great because there's a lot of achievements that were way down. I'll tell you what, though.
    6:55
    People that don't play pinball, they gravitate towards Pokemon like you wouldn't believe. Kids gravitate towards Pokemon. It crushes earnings. It gets played all the time. And then there's the people like me who are like, I don't care about Pokemon. Like, the theme does nothing to me. I would say I don't even like the theme. It's a negative theme for me. But I actually like the way the game shoots. It's fun. Yeah. You know, when that Pokemon ball shows up and that thing turns purple, I freak the hell out, but I got to catch it. Yeah. I got to catch them all. You got to catch them all. Hey, did you see that Stumbler mod? Yes. Where it spits out Pokemon cards? Would you get that? Yeah.
    7:40
    Yeah, right? I think you get that. I mean, you know, it's one of those things like from an operator standpoint, why am I spending more to do that? But I think that is so cool and people would play it more to get those cards. So it probably does make sense. Eureka, the guys at Eureka, shout out to John and Taylor, because that's my hanging out joint, right? Yeah, of course. They are going to put in that Tumblr mod. They should, yeah. And then what they're going to do is add it to a match.
    8:13
    Yes. Every time you get a match, that's when the card comes out. It's not high score. It's not achievement based. It's just knock match based. That's cool. The only thing is how are you going to communicate to the customer that they have that chance to win the card? You got to put a sign up. People don't read signs, though. I know. I have a giant – like I try to communicate everything here as clearly as possible. They don't read.
    8:43
    It's got to be just – I know. Yeah. I don't know what to do there. That's the rub. That's with my pawns there.
    8:51
    Good call, but it'll be pretty cool. It will be. It is cool. And I have one of those Skill Stop machines with full Pokemon cards. So it's got on a carousel and you press the button and you try to depress the lever and the Pokemon card balls. And I mean, we're talking crazy. That thing is gets played all day long. So people like the Pokemon. I'm going to ask me an earnings report later. Okay.
    9:17
    Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah. Later. I mean, why not? Okay. Yeah. All right. So Pokemon. Pokemon Pro. And that's. Pokemon Pro or four. Pokemon Pro. Okay, 007 LE. Great game. Yeah. Yeah, I'm terrible. I don't know why. Oh, you got to collect those women, the girls. You got to get your girls up because... That's my favorite pastime. Well, all of a sudden, you get your girls because you're multipliers and they are everything if you can get to 007 mode. Yeah, I know. But you know how some games you just like you like, but you just can't. Yeah, they don't talk to you. They don't. You can't find that. That's that game for me. I like it. I like the theme. It's beautiful. George Gomez. Sure. But I just I can't score anything on that machine. I'm terrible at it.
    10:15
    Try this real quick. Okay. Yeah. And people are going to, you know, who love 007 like me, try Orange Q mode with your multipliers. All right. Okay. Your print points. Okay. I'll try. If you can get your girls, your women villains, and get those up to even like three to four X and start orange Q. You don't want to start green Q, yellow Q. It's got to be the orange Q. Okay. Orange Q multipliers.
    10:48
    Print points. I need to print points because I'm, I don't know, as a leaderboard up. Yeah, sure. I'm not even on the top ten on that leaderboard, which is crazy because I'm most of the pinball leaderboards. Well, you start figuring out R&Q, you'll be up there. All right. What is next? What's next? Attack from Mars, Chicago Gaming Remake. Okay. Yep. Another one that's like, you know, that was a grail machine for me. Yeah. It ain't going anywhere. No, it's a great movie. Oh, yeah. I mean, when I saw that get listed, within like four minutes of it being listed, I said I'm on my way to buy it. So, you know, I've had it for quite a while now. And Chicago Gaming's games hold up, you know. Rock solid. The issue is getting them, right? Well, yeah. That's why I was like, oh, my God, I'm on my way. Great job. Yeah, it hasn't had any issues other than the end of strokes, which has got to clean them out. So that's normal. And I did a flipper rebuild on it. But of course, yeah, Star Wars, Ellie, Steve Ritchie. So I bought Fall of the Empire. I hate Fall of the Empire. I thought it was really bad.
    12:06
    Yeah, I know you like it. I have really fell in love with it. Yeah, I know. It was almost like you had to force yourself to love it. Does that make sense? I guess. I've never sold a pinball machine quicker than I sold that one. The guys in Eureka, it's not earning there. Yeah. Well, it earned all right. I just – for me, because I only have so many spots. Yeah. I play pinball all the time with my friends and the home team here. If it's not fun, it's not staying here. And that one, the Death Star shot was that whole thing. There was nothing interesting about it. So I got rid of that and brought in the Steve Ritchie LE, but what I really want is a Data East.
    13:03
    I will buy one of those to replace the Steve Ritchie one. Okay. I like the Stebra 2 one, but the Data East one is my favorite. Well, you've got the Hyperloop, so it's really kind of cool, and the LE and the feature. To defend my boy Raymond Davidson. Okay.
    13:22
    If you had given it a little more time, the code has gotten so good that it is fun. I think board games are hard. Okay. Yeah. I'm okay with hard games. Yeah, so it just didn't talk to you. Look, some games don't speak to you. Yeah, yeah. And that one didn't speak to you. Don't worry. Yeah, and Pokemon, I didn't think would speak to me at all, and it did. So it's weird how, you know, you never know. You never know. Yeah, and some people liked Fall of the Empire. But yeah, I don't know. It had to go. Listen, you got limited space. We got 10 machines. You know, if it's not, if you're not feeling the love, you got to move on. Yeah, yeah. All right, D&D, Tyrant Psy Pro. This is the only one that's talking to me. Isn't that hilarious? It doesn't talk to you? Yeah. I can't. You know what? I don't like it either, but I have. So there's a couple people that come to the arcade just to play that, and they play it all the time.
    14:25
    We had some background interference. I don't hear it at all now. Yeah, it's gone. It's gone. I wonder what that was. I don't know. Hey, it's much better now.
    14:35
    So there a couple people that play it all the time And one person in particular Terramik who on the whole Pinball team he plays it every day And I don quite have the heart to get rid of it but it may have to get asked Well you got to look at your earnings Yeah, it does. It does good. Yeah, I have. I like it. You know, if we delve into this machine, the problem is the under the cube is such a vital shot when it locks under the cube, Then you could use that right upper flipper to hit those two shots, which are vital. One starts dragging multiple, all the other. They're just important. To get to it, you have to go through Quizmo's little shop, or you could go to the little loop before. It's not a good tournament game because no one can log in the second ball.
    15:34
    I don't know. It just doesn't talk to me anymore. I love Brian and I love Dwight. It just doesn't talk to me. You're right. So that one's not bolted to the ground. It will go at some point. Okay. But it's here for now. But what is bolted is Alien Ripley Edition. I know.
    15:56
    People come in here and they say, I saw on Pinball Maps that you have an alien. We drove from so-and-so. You got a whole room in there. Don't you have a whole alien room? I have a whole alien room. And I was going to buy Predator, but it was too expensive.
    16:16
    Yeah. Yeah, and I was going to put it next to my Predator or my Alien. But Alien is, you know, you got to love it. It's beautiful. It's hard to play. It's difficult. It's hard to play. It's a little, oh, what's the word? They're bouncy, a little not perfect, but it's a very beautiful game. I'll tell you what, today, do you know Serge from Pin Pals on the Electric Bat Channel? He's amazing at rules and commentating. I'm here if you can see him. Okay, so he commentates and he does. They had Jason Zoller on today, and they did a deep dive into Pinball Brothers Alien. Nice. And you would get a kick out of that. I'll have to watch that.
    17:10
    It really deep dived the rules, and it's not a machine to talk to me either, but I only played the highway. I never played the Pinball Brothers. Yeah, and I mean, it definitely talks to me. I'm just, it's difficult, but I love it. It's so good. And people might don't think it's one of the top earners every time I do. Yeah. As far as pinball goes, at least. OK. And then last but not least, I think that's we covered them all. OK. So 1978, Gottlieb System 1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I saw this. I saw this post on Facebook Marketplace. It sat in a warehouse near the coast for like 30 years, which is not what you usually want to hear, but I got it for 500 bucks. Yeah. And it's required a lot of TLC. It's gotten every – I did everything you can do to it. It's beautiful. And then Doug helped me bring it back to life, and it literally just came back to life tonight. It is now done and refurbished, and we were playing it right before we filmed that year. There you go. And it's great. I like to have machines from different eras. I might bring in another electromechanical machine as well here soon because I really want to have a diverse lineup, not just, you know, Sterns. If you're just 10, a diverse lineup is nice, you know. The guys at Eureka had a tough decision to make, you know, when they grew. Since I spoke to you, they've gone from seven machines to 26. Wow, that's huge. Huge, right? And there's a tremendous amount of space at your hikes. And so they went with a new mode. They went new. And everything is new. They have a massive Stern row, a couple of Jersey Jacks, and then they have a Spooky Row, which is getting – they have a Spooky Row. They have a Jetsons. Spooky Row is good. Oh, wow. You don't see Jetsons very often. No, they have seven spooky machines, but, you know, spooky in tournaments don't work out. They don't really care about tournaments. And like Beetlejuice, have you played it? Yeah. Oh, no, Beetlejuice? No, I haven't played Beetlejuice. Okay. No, I won't. You know, when Buggin' – No one has one anywhere near me. Okay. It's fun. Yeah. Oh, I believe it. It looks fun. It's wicked fun. Yeah. And the art is just beautiful. Francis just nailed it. But, you know, it's not a tournament game. Yeah. You know, the problem with going new as far as a lineup here at the Quarter Drop is if you go 20 minutes down the road, you're in Eugene, which is the second largest city in Oregon. And all the arcades there have all the new stuff. Okay. So people come here from, because we have, you know, pinball leagues and stuff. They come here because I've got stuff that they don't have over there. So I try to – I actually, before I buy a machine, I make sure nobody has one anywhere near me. So you go to write the Pinball map. Yeah, I'm not buying it if somebody has one in Eugene, if someone has one in Roseburg or anywhere near me. I'm not buying it. Okay. So other than, like, I do get a few of the new Sterns because we've got to have, you know, the latest and greatest. And I like to play them. But in general, I try to have unique stuff. Good. And I'm trying to lean into that even more moving forward. What?
    20:43
    All right. So we know what's bolted to the ground. We know what's not bolted to the ground. I want to go through some new pins that are coming out, okay? Okay, cool. I like that. And you tell me if it's coming to the quarter drop. Oh, okay. Well, there's a lot of no strongly, but we'll see. Well, I've only got a few written down here. Okay. I'm curious. Well, here's the next three pins that we know are coming out by the end of this year. Oh, okay. Four pins.
    21:15
    Transformers with Elliot Eisman is his next machine. I hope I'm saying his name right. And if I'm wrong, I'm sorry. He did John Wick.
    21:27
    And they're supposed to be. That's confirmed. That's the next turn. Yeah, I'm on the roundtable now. I have some access to these ridiculous rumors from my friends. I'm sad because I've been saving for the fallout. Okay, so fallout is after.
    21:47
    Oh, good. Gives me more time to save for an L.E. Interesting little tidbit on fallout. Yeah. That's Keith Elwin. Keith Elwin, yeah, that's why I'm buying it. And they're going to – it's based on the Amazon series. So you're going to see a lot of that Walter Goggins character.
    22:08
    You don't like the pop? No, I do. I just really wanted it to be just the games, the animations from the game. But it's okay. As long as they incorporate VATS and that whole aesthetic.
    22:21
    Sure. You can see that big mech with, you know, whatever the Iron Man type of situation, the armor guy. Oh, it's Keith Elwin. It's going to be great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I'll buy a Fallout for sure. Okay. And depending on how good it looks is how it'll get the pro premium reality. Okay. Definitely. You're in on Keith Elwin's Fallout. Yes. Although I sold my Kong to a buddy. I didn't really – Kong was really good, but I was okay moving it on. Okay. It had its time? Yeah, it had its time, and I liked it. It was solid.
    23:01
    But, you know, my buddy – I've been playing it a lot more. Yeah. Honestly, I do kind of miss it. You know which one I do miss out of all the ones I've sold is the Jaws.
    23:13
    Oh, yeah. We might be getting another Jaws here. I think – I remember you told me that Jaws was not – yeah, that's bananas. I've sold a lot of pinball machines, and that's the one that I miss is the Jaws. Yeah, and I play it when I'm other places. I'm like, oh, I need a Jaws. Yeah. You know, and the premium is a little better than the Pro. It really is with the upper – I'm okay with both. I'm okay with the Pro. Yeah. I've been playing it a lot and I'm trying to get my shark attack. What is it? The counter. Shark counter. Those are tough. I know, but it's fun if you really get it up. It's a great machine. Yeah, it's great. Brilliant. I can see Kong leaving. It had its time. It's at its place. And my buddy modded it out to the nines. It's beautiful now. He did the whole thing to it like I did with Ripley's. He went full in and it looks it's like really nice now.
    24:14
    Was it a pro? Yeah, it was a pro. OK, so because they have those new mods with the spider now and they got in the gong and the torches and speaking of shirts. Right. Yeah. We'll get back to the current lineup and that in a second. But speaking of shirts, right. I did some spring cleaning in my house the other day. Okay. I have a ridiculous amount of pinball shirts. Okay. Just way too many. And some of them were double X and I've lost a couple of LBs and I'll never want to go back to that. So I donated, but some of the t-shirts, the quality wasn't as great as like the bad, like, you know, the shirts are really important. So if you're a content creator and you've got your shirts out there, get some good shirts. Like the Quarter Drop Arcade hoodie. That's very cool. That's a nice hoodie. You've got to have good quality stuff. Yes. You've got to have some good quality stuff. All right. So Sonic, would you get a Sonic, a 10K arcade version Sonic from JJP? Because I noticed you don't have any JJPs over there. Never had a JJP. Never made a machine that I had to have, to be honest. Sonic is the best bet that they have for me, for me to buy a Jersey Jack. Love the theme. I mean, I'm a Sega Genesis kid. I've still got it. I collect retro games. You mean your conversations? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Sonic, good shot at it. I could see buying a Sonic. Those Jersey Jacks are a little expensive, but they put a lot into them, so I get it. I mean, it's not like they're not worth the money.
    26:07
    But, yeah, I could see buying a Sonic. Okay. Yeah. What about Goonies from Spooky Pinball? Oh, that's a tough one. I'm not – Goonies for me isn't as big as it is for a lot of my friends.
    26:26
    But it's an Oregon icon, and people around here are going to love Goonies. That's going to be tough for you to say no to. I know. Yeah. It would get played constantly, and I know everyone would love it. And it's not like I don't like Goonies. I just, it's not something that I'm passionate about, like I am other things from the 80s. Okay. So maybe a no for Goonies. Maybe. Probably not. No Harry Potter. That's surprising. Eh, no.
    26:57
    I don't know. I don't like the theme. Harry Potter doesn't do it for me either. I know. It's a big earner. I know. I'm very particular. I just, yeah. And you can play that in Gene. I could get a Harry Potter here if I wanted to because there's a, I have a vendor that they have a few machines here that they rotate for me. And they have a Harry Potter. I've thought about having them just bring one in maybe. I'd bring it in and print some quarters for you for a little bit.
    27:33
    It's a fun machine. I play it at Next Level Pinball Museum in Hillsborough, and it's great. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of that machine. I play it a lot. And, you know, just even playing Quidditch and starting to learn the rules more and more and more. That's the problem. Like, J.J.P., the rules are deep, right? You've really got to put a lot of quarters in to start figuring all this crap out. And there's a local player who works for another pinball company. How about that? I won't even name the pinball company. I think I know who it is. That's not hard to figure out.
    28:17
    He plays the hell out of Harry Potter. Oh, okay. Okay. And he has all, every high score on this machine. It's just unbelievable. Jersey Jacks are a little bit, it's kind of hard to explain, but to me, they're like the Disney of pinball.
    28:39
    And I don't connect usually with them because there's, they're a little too polished. There's a little too much going on. Beautiful machines. But, like, they play forever. You can just sit there and play those. As far as, like, on location, like, sometimes I, like, play an avatar. I'm like, oh, my God, what time? You know, it's like, what? I don't know. I kind of gravitate towards weird stuff, though. Like, you know, I really want to get a Waterworld, like a Gottlieb Waterworld and stuff like that. Yes. You know, I like this, like, quirky older stuff.
    29:17
    Things that you don't see very often. Okay. Maybe like a mouse in the round or a xenon or you know this kind of interesting stuff Mousing around is fantastic It sure is That like any system 11 man Oh yeah I know yeah You can't go wrong with a system 11 in there. Yeah, we had Elvira and the Party Monsters here for a long time. Get yourself a Radical. Oh, well, yeah, a Radical would be amazing. Those are expensive, though. I know. Yeah. That's a team that could be remade. It could. It could be remade. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Oh, wow. I mean, the guy works for American Pinball now, doesn't he? Oh, okay. Did you know that? Who, the guy that did Tony Hawk? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Mark Nitzel, or Nitzel, and he got hired by Electric Playground, which is famous for toppers. And him and Robin from Electric Playground are now working at American Pinball. Wow. Cool. Well, confirmed. Confirmed. Confirmed. Well, I mean, they announced that I did. Oh, okay. All right. They were officially there. They were at TPF. They were wearing American Pinball t-shirts. Okay. There you go. Pretty confident. Yeah. All right. And then the last one that we're supposed to see is potentially Halo from CGC. OK, really from CGC? I remember hearing that and thinking, wow, that's crazy. Yeah, that would be hard to resist. I love me some Halo. Yeah. OG Xbox is one of my favorites. But the problem with CGC and Halo is you might not get it. You might get, you know, the Yukon Yeti before you get the Halo. Yukon Yeti. I'm so glad they brought on Chris Grainer for the music, because when I saw that, I'm like, wow, the playfield looks amazing. I like the shots. It looks really fun to play. That music is tragically not cut. Poor Chris Turner. I'm going to give you a Chris Turner story. Okay. We're sitting at TPF. I think I'm hot shit because I got myself one of these VIP badges and I can walk around. And it's Thursday evening and the place is closing down for anyone to bring in any games. And Christian arrives 15 minutes before they close the doors. And he's got to get his two Merlins. No, it's one Merlin and it's two Yukon Yetis in there. And everyone who has this red badge is talking to Chris Turner. And he's like the nicest person on the planet. He really is. And he's like freaking out because he's got 15 minutes and everyone is just hounding him. But when you're standing in line, the lines for that game were brutal. Yeah, I believe it. At TPS, they were approved. But every person to a man said to him, the sounds, the sound is not there. And he took it, right? I've noticed that he is really good at taking feedback in, and that tells me that that company is going to do really well.
    32:50
    It's like on their games, though, Coe. Yeah, it does. I think Turner Pinball is going to be really one to watch out for moving quick. I mean, already, I feel like Yukon Yeti is a big step in the right direction. And you've got Dennis Nordman. You've got Beloved. I mean, Whitewater. I love Whitewater. So you've taken that and working off that. That mech with the avalanche mech is killer. It is. Hard to get. Yeah. And now you have Chris Grainer doing the music. The art package, you know, if there's one more piece of feedback there, I don't like the cabinet art. Okay. Yeah, I really... That family-friendly type move. Yeah. But if you could get, I don't know, maybe... Who's the guy that does all the... Oh, I'm blanking on his name right now. I have his Attack for Mars band. Not Franchi. Oh, Brian Allen? Yeah, Brian Allen. Maybe get Brian Allen. Yeah, but he might have a Yeti, like, eating someone, right? Yeah, I like that. Yeti should be ripping the head off and blood should be going to the workplace.
    34:00
    I mean, I don't think Chris is going to go for that. I'd buy it. Joe would buy it. In cotton strobe, but I don't know. I don't know about that one. But yes, awesome. Chris Cranor, he's going to crush it, and I'm very excited. And we're not hearing much from Barrels of Fun. They're very tight-lipped over there. Someone is throwing out G.I. Joe or He-Man. Well, I know who would be buying He-Man.
    34:32
    Who's that? Rachel. Yeah, Rachel. She'll buy He-Man. But would you buy any of those? Would any of those, do they talk to you? I like them, but I wouldn't feel compelled to help to have them. Okay. It's not a sight unseen yet. That's really what we're talking about. If we're talking sight unseen, it's like, yeah, Fallout, boom, done. Okay.
    34:56
    I'm still waiting for my Mad Max. You know, yeah. I want a redo of Robocop. Why is that? I guess it's not going to sell enough units now, maybe. I don't know.
    35:11
    Robocop? Yeah. I like the one from the Day to the East one from the 80s, but, boy, you could do a lot with RoboCop. That first movie is super violent and cool. It's super violent, though. Yeah, that's good. I want to see the na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na, the arm blowing off. Oh, no way. Yeah. No way. You've never been that into a situation. When that guy gets in that bad ass. Oh, I know, yeah. That should be a whole mode. And then can you fly, Bobby?
    35:41
    I saw that movie. Me and you both saw that movie way too young. Oh, yeah. And when he does that, no, no, no, no, no, no. That freaked me out. I think I slept on the floor for weeks.
    35:58
    All right. So those are the pins that are potentially coming out, and that's what we know what's going on. But I think at the quarter drop, if I were to say Eureka, they're definitely getting a Transformers. They're definitely getting a Fallout and a Sonic out of those. So that'll be fun, you know, having here five minutes walk from my house. So that's kind of cool. That's amazing.
    36:25
    What else? Oh, give me your earnings report. Okay. Now to Rachel and Kale of Electric Backcast. We're not stealing anything from you. We're just doing a little. So I want to know what the quarter drop is earning with not, you know, we don't need a number. Yeah, like what does well and what doesn't do well. What does well? What's kicking butt? Well, there's three specific categories within the quarter drop. There's the classic row, which is, you know, the Miss Pac-Mans, the Altered Beasts, the bad dudes, right? Stuff like that. Those earn the least as far as the overall picture of the arcade. Out of those ones, the one that earns the least amount would be Turbo Outrun. That doesn't make hardly anything. It makes like $4 a week. It's an all-time Sega classic. People are crazy that they don't play that. I don't get it. But people don't. Yeah, I consult with people still, even though I haven't been doing a lot of content creation lately. Because of the whole following I built up leading up to this arcade, people call me and they're like, I'm opening an arcade because I watched your journey. Yeah. And they tell me things like, I have a 2,000 square foot building and I'm doing all classics. I'm like, oh, oh my gosh, okay. I'm like, just so you know, I would be out of business like in the first month if I would just have classics because I love that stuff. It's my favorite things. Sure. And I dedicate, you know, half the arcade to it because I love it so much. But it does not make any money. It costs one repair on this Pac-Man is a month of earnings on that machine. So, you know, it's like you have it there as a value proposition. It's a value check. Yeah.
    38:23
    Yeah. If you get rid of it, would anybody really notice? Yeah, because I got people that come in and play Ms. Pac-Man every day. But still, it's a quarter of play, and it's not, you know. So Ms. Pac-Man is probably the number one earner in the classics row. Okay. And then Lethal Enforcers. Anything that has a gun or a wheel usually does pretty well, especially the guns. So Lethal Enforcers does well. But, yeah. Is that the one where the guy is holding up a bank and if you shoot the whatever, the innocents?
    38:59
    Yes. Okay. Speaking of people, it's one of my favorites. My classic throw is really filled with some pretty heavy hitters and I love them so much. They're all original. They all have CRT monitors. They all have the right joysticks. I mean, it's a labor of love for sure. But like Lethal Enforcers, you know, it says shoot here to reload and you have to reload by shooting there. Yeah. Speaking of no one reading, people go up to it. They put their money into it. They fire and then like they're out of ammo and they don't know what's going on and they just get mad. They start hitting the gun on the head. It's like crazy. And I can see it right here. So I go, oh, no, you've got to shoot there to reload. And then you've got to go up and walk and point to it. And they're dead by then. It's a game over. Yeah, it's it's comical.
    39:50
    But yeah, so that's the classics. OK. Then we have pinball, which, you know, this got my heart. I love pinball. I play it every day. We have a pinball team. Did I talk about this last time? We have a home team. We get together every Thursday and we play we stream pinball, but we get together almost every night and we play together. And we have jerseys and we go to other tournaments and it's really a family.
    40:19
    And we play pinball just about every night. And so as far as pinball earnings reports, that's what we're doing.
    40:27
    Attack for Mars, Pokemon, those are right now probably the top earners. Okay. Godzilla and Alien are always right kind of there too. So those are like the top echelon. Lowest earners right now would be 007 and D&D.
    40:54
    Okay. I don't know how Close Encounters are going to do because I just got it working. So, yeah, that's, you know, but they're all, honestly, Pinball does pretty good here, which is nice. Good. Yeah, they do great, like Pokemon is doing crazy good.
    41:10
    But, yeah, they're all solid, which is wonderful. So I can afford to buy other pinball machines, which is nice. But then there's this side of the arcade, which is all the ticket machines and prize machines. Okay. And that's where all the money comes from. It's not even close. Yeah. So I've really now I've made a hard rule. I will not dedicate more than half of the arcade to this to those machines because I really want when you come in, I want, you know, to go, oh, my God, look at these original beautiful machines and look at all these great pinball machines and people can enjoy that. But then we have half the arcade that is ticket games and I've gotten a lot of new machines. So I have a Price is Right Plinko Coin Pusher. That thing destroys earnings. I mean, it's like all the pinball row together. We're talking like that. Yeah, it's not – yeah, I mean, it destroys earnings. That's why I try to tell people when they are opening an arcade. It's like you kind of need to have that because it's really expensive. There's a lot of overhead. It adds up. Running an arcade is not cheap. It's very expensive and having you want the machines to crush like that. And then I have SpongeBob, which still is a top earner, has been ever since I opened up. That was used to be the number one, but now it's like number three.
    42:42
    And then I have a game called Wonder Wheel. Any game where you fast where you put a quarter in rapid fire. Yeah, because, you know, yeah, you get you just sit there and rapid fire. So it's, you know, it's burning three quarters.
    42:58
    So, yeah, that's, and then the lowest earning ones, I have a game called Sports Arena that doesn't make that much, and I'm going to replace that with a Zoltar.
    43:10
    Ooh. That's next. That's my next purchase. I'm buying a Zoltar. Great. And I have a machine called Skittleball, which is fun, but it doesn't earn as much as some of the other ones, and I haven't decided what I'm going to put there yet. That'll be after that, after Zoltar. Yeah. So it's fun. I mean, I've come to love ticket machines.
    43:32
    They're my favorite. No, they're not. They're not my favorite. But they're essential. It's great. And you know what, though? Also, it's not just about me. This is one of the things I've learned with opening an arcade is, like, I don't play the ticket games. I don't love them. But it's not about me. That's what people want to play. Do you want people to come to your arcade and have fun? If I didn't have claw machines and I didn't have ticket machines, all these people that come through here would not, first of all, they wouldn't come and they wouldn't be having fun. And all these families and all these kids that have a blast they running around they bundles of tickets thrilled None of that would happen So win It great It a win So for these people that are texting you and IMing you and saying I opening an arcade listen to this podcast okay Shout out to Launchpad Arcade. Chip over there who owns it, he just opened up and he was one of the first people that called me and he was going to do all classics. And he took my advice and he has Spongebob and a bunch of other machines that I have here and he opened up and he's crushing it. Crushing it. Yeah. Great. How about a pop-up shot? I don't know if you listen to the back. I don't have enough room. You know? They're too tall.
    44:53
    Are they too tall? Yeah, too tall. Yeah. I thought I would love to, but yeah. I have an ice ball, a ski ball. Okay. Yeah.
    45:04
    How's that, too? Very good. Oh, yeah. It destroys. Yeah. That was when I first opened up. That was the outside vendor on that. And I bought that from them immediately. Yes. And it's paid itself off, you know, 100 times over. Great. Yeah. These machines like that's the thing about claw machine. Like I just bought a brand new, beautiful galaxy claw machine. It was very expensive. It's beautiful. It's amazing. It paid itself off in two weeks. I mean, it's the ROI on these. A pinball machine, you buy a $10,000 pinball machine, it's going to take a long time to pay. It's a lot. I mean, you get the money back when you sell it. You don't really – yeah. So it's not even like – it's crazy. Yeah. I bought that Price is Right coin pusher for $500. It paid itself off in two days. Yeah. I mean, it's – yeah.
    46:01
    So it's wild. Well, that is awesome. I'm loving these reports from you, right? And it's been way too long since we've recorded together, and that's my fault. Oh, that's okay. And you're running an arcade. I know. But we're so used to seeing you on a daily basis on our feeds, and that went away. What happened? I know. I feel kind of guilty about it, but the reality... I know. I love sharing arcade history in the corner shop of people. So those videos take an hour for me to write, an hour for me to film and edit, and then the time to post, right? And then respond to comments.
    46:48
    The arcade, when I opened the arcade, I assumed that, you know, this is a small town I live in. I'm like, oh, people will come and go and, you know, I'll have time to do all this stuff. It's not like that. It's busy all the time. And I'm running the arcade. It's really hard for me. And I'm working long hours. So I had to really kind of look at where I'm spending my time, and that one was a big chunk of time. And it's like I need to find that balance where I can share more. But the reality is with sharing the social media, it's like it's really good for the arcade, but a lot of the people, even now, they come. They're like, we were driving down the 5 Freeway, and we just wanted to come see the quarter drop. And they talk to you and they're lovely people and very nice and I'm grateful for it. But it doesn't they don't really like, I don't know, participate in the arcade as much as like a family, a local family would. So I can spend a minute writing a local Facebook group post that I put on, you know, what's going on in Cottage Grove. And you get three, four or five families down here with their kids. And that's actually benefiting the arcades overall much more than spending two hours doing a reel, even though I'm getting way more views on the reels. But it's more of a global thing than a local thing. Does that make sense? It makes total sense. Yes. The ROI is not there. It's not. And not everything is about ROI. I do try to balance that.
    48:18
    But we do every day. I know. I know. It's rough. I miss it. Honestly, I do miss it. I miss you. I should try to get back in the rhythm of doing like even if it's just one a week or something. I don't know. Do you think, and I think content creators get caught up in this. I hate to jam content creators, but whatever we are. I know. We overthink it. Like I've gotten to the point where I just take my Osmo Pocket 3 and just start talking to it. Yeah. And I'll film three to four ideas in a row and I'll just throw it out there. And sometimes they hit, sometimes they don't hit. Sometimes I record it and then I always edit and cap cut. It's the easiest thing in the world, right? I just cap cut it. And then I'll play it back and I'll play it for Janine and my wife and she's like, no, that's terrible. You're better than that. And I'm like, yeah. Well, I mean, that is great. The only problem for me, at least, is that every single video on my feed is the exact same format. If I just start doing that, it's like, I don't know, it throws everything off, doesn't it? Maybe I am overthinking it, but I don't. Yeah, well, people want to see me walk to the camera and stop on the thing and do the whole thing. I got to have my jacket on. You know, I mean, if I'm going to make another video, I got to do it right. I don't know. I had the jacket hanging up right back there. You can literally just take your phone and just say, hey, here's what's happening at the quarter drop this week. Yeah. That once a week. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I do need to figure out.
    49:59
    It's that balance, right? You know, it's finding that balance. And I think this first year, I mean, where did we pass the first year? We're a year and two, three months are now, which is amazing. It goes by really quick. I can't believe that. But it's been so just such a wild ride. It's like always new machines coming in, always busy and just kind of the whole thing and learning to repair. That's another thing. It's like I'm repairing stuff every single day. Today I fixed a resodder resistor on the board of Kooky Carnival. I have a wheel that's sticking on Price is Right. Close Encounters of Third Kind got fixed finally after 30 years of sitting dormant. And there's one more thing I fixed too and I can't even remember now. That's just today. Today, on a Thursday, which is like one of our slow days. If you're in an arcade, I think you can. If you have no technical expertise, like I have no technical expertise, you know, I go and hang out with Rachel and Kale once or twice a year, and I'll just be hanging with Ralph because Rachel and Kale have work to do. Okay. They've got 70 pinball machines and they get a repair, you know, I mean. Yeah, I've got 55 machines on the floor, but they're not all pinball. Pinball keeps you – I mean, I love it. I really do enjoy working on the pinball machines, but it keeps you busy. So, Kale and Rachel, I'm sure they have their hands full. Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course. It's a concept that their games play great, and I guarantee you the games play great at the quarter drop.
    51:48
    I pride myself on having perfectly working machines. Clean, flawless. And if they're not, I'll know it because I play them every day. And that's the beauty of why I love Eureka Heights and the bad and these great places that I go to is the machines are perfect. Yeah. If you make a mistake, it's you made the mistake. The game didn't screw you. All right. You made the mistake. Yeah, no, that's good. It's nice. And I go to arcades all over the place because I enjoy arcades. And I want to see what other people are doing. And I do notice that generally speaking, the pinball machines are not well maintained. They're dirty. There's some kind of vital component broken. It's a lot of work, right? Like, you know, I went on location to this place in Pearland, had a Deadpool Pro. And just South Houston and the scoop didn't work. Well, how the hell do you play Deadpool without a scoop? Yeah. You can't do anything. And it happens. I had that happen to Godzilla just the other day. I'm like, oh, I'm going to play Godzilla. Oh, scoop doesn't work. Glass comes off. You know, it gets fixed. It gets fixed. You're not playing. You're fixing. That's right. Yeah. Well, we all miss you. Thank you. I'll speak to the community. I'm not dead. Everyone messages me and says either am I dead or a problem or this is the most popular one is the quarter drop out of business. I'm like, no, it's the opposite. It's definitely not out of business. Well, congratulations on your success. Did I miss any subjects for us today? We're in an hour. I think that was great. Okay, good. I was going to do earnings report for Eureka Heights. Let me do it real quick. Go for it. And thank you, Rachel Best and Kale Hernandez for this excellent idea that we're stealing. Earnings report, trademark.
    53:58
    And they should trademark it. I'll pay for it. But, you know, it's so funny. John will come over. John Spates, who runs Eureka, he'll come over to my house and he'll pull out his phone. And he gives me monthly numbers. We do our own earnings report in my backyard to no one. OK. And what's so funny is what's printing money is Pokemon. Yeah, it is. It's just ridiculous the amount of families that come to this brewery and the kids will just park on Pokemon. Yep. What's number two is Beetlejuice. Yeah, I believe it. People are playing it. They're just playing it. It's worth the $10,000. They're getting a lot of playback from it. And the good thing about a Beetlejuice is, hell, I mean, if it bores you after six months, which I doubt it would, and if it didn't become an earner, you could sell it because they only made a thousand of them. You could sell for maybe even more than you paid for it. Yeah, so you could be in good shape there. And then Harry Potter. Yeah. Those are the three earners. That sounds right. And then I, oh, and the Guitar Hero. So they just moved the Guitar Hero in. Oh boy. And it's loud. I was going to say, that's why I don't have one. I don't want to listen to it. And this is not big enough for an arcade. It'd be too loud. It'd be constant. Yeah, it's loud, but they're going to build an arcade row. I'm trying to convince them to get a pop a shot. Oh, good. Eureka doesn't want to. They'll get claw machines if they want to make that cheddar. Yeah, I think they're going to try.
    55:42
    Well, listen, they're listening. Okay, well, Pokemon may crush. It doesn't do as much as a claw machine. I can tell you that much.
    55:53
    What did Rachel say the first time we interviewed her in the first episode? Yeah, her suction claw machine she has. It'll sell your bar. That's why I bought, I have now like four of them because it's like, of course, people want them too. They come in and go, you got claw machines? I'm like, yeah, I got a bunch of them. Like, oh, yes. They're not asking about Pac-Man.
    56:19
    No, I don't get it either. What's the name of the game where you would put like an iPhone in the back and it does like this brick layer thing? Oh, yes. Stacker. My kids played this. Oh, yeah. Stacker, all those. Yeah. Any prize, redemption, anything. It's a good one, at least. Yeah. That's a good one. You see those in movie theaters, that key thing. Yeah. There's a reason that's what you like. If you go to any modern arcade, there's a reason you see the machines you do. I mean, that's not by accident. You have to do like what I do here, what like Kale and Rachel, because they have older machines, too. You just have to really be passionate about it. Like you have to like you want to spend a bunch of money keeping an altar beast thrown in and looking good because you really care about that machine. You know, there's no other reason to do it. It's just taking up space. It doesn't earn money. So there's no reason. It has to be a passion.
    57:20
    Well said. Coe from the Quarter Drop Arcade in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Check him out on all the socials. He's going to post a little more, ladies and gentlemen. Don't worry. I should. But if you are ever in Oregon, there's the only one reason to go up there, and that's to Cottage Grove. Yeah, play some classics.
    57:39
    Play a wide variety of machines and have fun. See a really cool dude named Kale. Thank you. Thank you, Jamie. That's all from me. Roundtable, couple weeks.
    57:51
    You know, we only like to do it every three or four weeks. We don't want to inundate the people. And too much, Jamie. You don't need enough. No. What? We want more Roundtable. It is fun. I'm having a blast. Oh, yeah.
    58:06
    All right, Coe, thank you so much. This has been Arcades Across America with my co-host, Coe. I am Jamie Birchall, and this will be up, I think, Friday.
    58:20
    Since it's late for me, I've got to go to bed, Coe. I know, right? I've been at it all day. I've been located all day. So let's get him out of here, ladies and gentlemen. This has been fun reminiscing and talking to my friend. I miss you and I hope all is well. And visit the Quarter Drop Arcade whenever you're up there, ladies and gentlemen.
    58:55
    Labyrinth, King Kong, Dune, Jaws.