Charlie Emery

"Charlie's probably put a few million dollars in his pocket which he's deserved. Make no mistake, Charlie Emery lived the American dream and deserves the success of his company and he's at a crossroads now and he's either going to hire the talent he needs to keep Spooky Pinball competitive at these prices or his company will fail"

Charlie Emery and Spooky are at a crossroads - hire talent or fail

"Charlie didn't want to type that. We know Ben feels like his game was pushed aside for games he didn't think were that good. A lot of public sort of back and forth vitriol"

Charlie Emery and Ben Heck having public argument on Pinside

"Chuck, why would you show a game where you did not even have code that you were happy with 10 months early just to be at the show. It's at the point now. We're right. It would have made total sense to reveal Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle at T.P.F. of 2019."

Charlie Emery showed Alice Cooper too early at TPF 2018

"Chuck went around telling everyone that he was gonna do Godzilla and because he kept running his mouth about Godzilla stern went and fucking stole it from him. Stole it right out from underneath him."

Stern stole Godzilla license from Spooky because Charlie talks too much

"I think Charlie needs to take a back seat in the design category and let somebody else design these games because the problem with Alice Cooper are the designs"

Charlie Emery needs to step back from design and let someone else design Spooky games

"I think Charlie gets very sensitive to people who are calling out the fact that the big weakness in his games is His design"

Disagreement with Charlie Emery's defensive post about Alice Cooper criticism

"How did they know he was going after it? Right? So here's how they knew, because Charlie spoke about it. Like he talks. And it's like he doesn't understand that he's actually in a competitive business... he lost his dream theme. Because of that, it's like he couldn't keep his mouth shut about it and go get the license."

Charlie Emery talks too much about future plans, which cost him the Godzilla license to Stern

"But you don't offer to help your competitor make a product. Okay, okay, in what world does that happen"

Charlie Emery offering to help Stern with Godzilla for free is business naivety - competitors don't help each other

"I think Chuck needs to get on the design bench and let somebody else take over in designing their games and they need to go higher someone who really gets how to design a great pinball machine and as long as he's the main designer I don't think they're gonna get there"

Chuck needs to stop designing games and hire someone else

"I still think design is spooky's weakest point... I still think Charlie should take a back seat to design and let someone else design games because I just don't think the design is on the same level of the rest of the games"

Design is Spooky's Achilles heel - Charlie should step back and let someone else design games

"I think he would be better off not designing games. I think he'd be better off taking on the role of Gary Stern and you know, running the company, managing the company. But I would hire someone with pinball design talent to take his company to the next level."

Charlie Emery would be better off not designing games and hiring someone else

"here's the dirty little secret of how Stern got that theme It's because Charlie can't keep his fucking mouth shut. Do you after your competitor just bent you over and made you take it You then Chico, you then offer to help them make the game"

Charlie Emery lost Godzilla theme to Stern because he talks too much and then offered to help them