George Gomez

"George Gomez looks at these games. He is laughing. I mean, look at what he's built. He's shipping games all over the world. He has another manufacturing facility in South America. And these guys can't even get 50 games out the door in six months. He's not threatened by this."

George Gomez and Stern are not threatened by boutique manufacturers

"73 year old George Gomez. Does he have an emotional connection to Pokemon? Do you think he's seen a single Pokemon episode? The man hasn't been dreaming about the possibilities of putting a Pokemon world under glass."

George Gomez at 73 has no emotional connection to Pokemon and is just doing homework

"the problem with every time George explains stuff is is the end user doesn't care like you know I'm saying I don't care what challenges you have with the licenseer you know I don't care like if making cabinets is hard find someone to make them that is warranting a thirteen thousand dollar price but you can't do it like this"

Attacking George Gomez for defending Stern's issues as customer problems

"Welcome to the world's only pinball content creator that does not want to interview George Gomez right now. I just don't. I have no interest in interviewing George Gomez right now. I love George Gomez. I'm not impressed by any of their recent product. I don't want to talk to you."

Does not want to interview George Gomez right now due to poor recent Stern products

"Did feel like George took a little bit of a shot at Jack when he said a game designer doesn't really develop his signature if he only has done three games."

George Gomez took a subtle shot at Jack Danger about designers needing more than three games to develop a signature

"So I think Pokemon is either gonna be Jack danger or it's going to be Keith Elwin So I think you heard it here first. I don't think George Gomez is finishing Pokemon I'm not even sure he was ever even on it. So that's some news"

Prediction: George Gomez is not finishing Pokemon and may not have ever been on the project. Pokemon will be designed by either Jack Danger or Keith Elwin.

"George Gomez will be and always is the man... George Gomez and his totality in coming over from Cuba, the stuff the man has done, what he's built is absolutely the greatest individual in the history of all of Pinball."

George Gomez is the greatest individual in pinball history

"a theme that Stern pinball passed on a theme that Stern pinball said nobody wanted to make George Gomez got up there and said I asked around to my design team and they didn't want to make this game well here you go George here you go it's showtime"

Stern passed on Beetlejuice theme because George Gomez's design team didn't want to make it

"I love George Gomez, but when I interviewed him, he said something to me, the audience I want is not the audience I have. George, I can't believe he even uttered those words."

George Gomez made a terrible statement about wanting different audience

"F-off George Gomez. When you say you made Black Knight Topper three times as expensive because of the demand. F-off charging $2,000 for a Foo Fighters Topper because of the demand."

Direct attack on George Gomez for pricing decisions

"George Gomez needs to go here and realize what he did. Every single Elvira that's listed for sale, Stern Pinball is the reason why these guys are cutting bait on these games. They screwed over all of these gentlemen."

George Gomez and Stern screwed over Elvira buyers by releasing a nicer, cheaper version

"it saddens me to say that George is on board for all of this stuff and all of these shenanigans"

George Gomez supports multiple limited editions undermining previous buyers

"The one thing with George Gomez games and everybody knows this they are a little bit clunky James Bond is clunky Right there are a lot of shots in that game that are super clunky. They're super tight I wouldn't say James Bond is a game with great flow"

George Gomez games are clunky with poor flow

"They also have the smartest man in all of pinball. And that is Mr. George Gomez. He runs Stern Pinball... Nobody is smarter than this man. Nobody understands the business of pinball more than George Gomez."

George Gomez is the smartest man in pinball and key to Stern's success

"I just think everything about the Gomez pin is going to be a lot more special. And so why would I get all upset that I also can't have one of these Keith Elwin versions of James Bond?"

George Gomez James Bond version will be superior to Keith Elwin's 60th Anniversary

"I think George Gomez put Steve Ritchie in the passenger seat of a DB5 Aston Martin and ejected his butt all the way to Jersey Jack Pinball months ago. And this was originally going to be a Steve Ritchie design... George is building this game from the ground up. There is nothing that Steve Ritchie touch that's going to make its way into this game."

George Gomez completely replaced Steve Ritchie's work on James Bond

"Part of me feels like because George Gomez took this game over from Steve Ritchie and Steve Ritchie has gone on the record to say a lot of nasty stuff about Stern... I think George Gomez is going to make this a little bit of a statement game to his friend Steve and say, look at what we can do."

George Gomez will make James Bond a statement game to show up Steve Ritchie after Ritchie criticized Stern

"I think George Gomez is one of the best designers of all time. I fully expect George Gomez to make this game pretty special. And I also fully expect there to be some clunkiness because that's always a thing with Gomez designs."

George Gomez is one of the best designers but always has clunkiness in flow

"That is the biggest bunch of BS I have ever heard... I think these games get more creative when you give your designers more resources."

George Gomez's claim that budget restrictions increase creativity is BS

"the reason why George Gomez is honestly the most respected man in pinball and will always be the most respected man in pinball is because while you might have an issue with this or that, he understands how to get the sum of the parts together every three to four months to make you a pinball machine"

George Gomez is the most respected person in pinball because he understands how to coordinate all the parts and hit deadlines

"So I kind of look at George. I've always looked at him as sort of a referee like he should wear a black and white stripe shirt to work every day and stand between Gary and the pinball designers, call foils, call penalty, you know, whenever necessary."

George Gomez acts as a referee between Gary Stern and the creative team

"I still consider George Gomez to be, I think, the best designer and dreamer in one of them in pinball history"

George Gomez is the best designer and dreamer in pinball history

"George Gomez is a fucking genius. All right. He's a fucking genius. Have you ever talked to George Gomez? He is one of the smartest, most articulate, incredible people I've ever talked to."

George Gomez is a genius and incredible businessman

"Do you think he's seen a single Pokemon episode? I mean, he's probably making this game, but you know what I'm saying? The man hasn't been dreaming about the possibilities of putting a Pokemon world under glass."

George Gomez designing Pokemon as homework assignment rather than passion project

"I would rather have a George Gomez where even if some of the elements are borrowed or lifted from some of his previous games, I would rather shoot a game that shoots well even if it has things that are reminiscent of previous games versus a completely new layout that's a brickfest"

George Gomez games shoot really well, even if some elements are borrowed from previous games - prefers good flow over completely new but poorly designed layouts

"George and I were probably on a bit better terms... He said to me, Chris, Dutch Pinball is going to fail because they are trying to contract manufacture Pinball machines."

George Gomez correctly predicted Dutch Pinball's failure due to contract manufacturing approach

"George Gomez to say that the only point of this podcast is to be provocative. And I'm good at it. And you know, it's bullshit. Some of the stuff I say"

George Gomez called Kaneda's podcast bullshit and provocative at Stern seminar

"there's a pinball podcast or in New York who aims to be provocative and sometimes you know says stuff that's just bullshit"

George Gomez called out Kaneda's podcast during Stern seminar for being provocative and spreading rumors

"Look, George Gomez, I don't care. Anybody says about anything about Stern. George Gomez is one of the nicest people I've met... I think Stern does a whole lot more right than they do wrong."

George Gomez is one of the nicest people in pinball and Stern does a lot more right than wrong