Jersey Jack Pinball

"But if you buy our games, not only do you get it back in the cash box that Bill accept or are a quad swipe, you get it back in the residual if you want to sell that game years later."

Jack Guarnieri claims Jersey Jack games maintain strong resale value

"You've got $2,000 deposit on this game. Are you really going to cut them a check for $7,000 or $8,000 more to get it? You're just throwing more money in the fire."

Questioning the financial wisdom of completing Jersey Jack Pinball pre-orders

"Because I truly believe that JJP since its inception has been on a mission to put as much as they can into pinball. I believe this company and I'm thankful for this company because they pushed pinball innovation. You need to go back and look at what Stern machines looked like before JJP came out."

JJP pushed pinball innovation and made Stern machines better through competition

"i do i want to have competition of course i do and that competition right now is jersey jack pinball that's the company to me that really could give stern for money with the triple a title they've got the manufacturing plant going they've proven they can build games that are of a high high quality"

Jersey Jack Pinball is the only real competition to Stern

"I just got out of the worst presentation I've ever seen in my entire life and I'm tired and I'm exhausted and I'm so fed up with these pinball companies not taking this shit seriously"

Jersey Jack Pinball's presentation at Texas Pinball Festival was completely disastrous and unprofessional

"Limited edition means you set the limit before people buy. You're not being honest with people, Jack"

Jersey Jack Pinball is being dishonest about limited edition quantities

"some of you might have seen me just lambasting Jack about how sloppy and messy their presentation was last night, right? What you didn't see is me talking with Jersey Jack for a half hour today about what I think they can do to help improve things."

Jersey Jack Pinball's presentation was sloppy and messy but had productive conversation with Jack about improvements

"I think Jersey Jack when they make like 1500 LE's silly how silly do those LE's look now how silly if Jack only made 150 small editions all right then they become something sought after something exciting but when you just keep pumping them out nobody cares"

Jersey Jack's 1500 LE production numbers are silly compared to Stern's limited approach

"Do you think it was coincidence that Jersey Jack Pinball announced their Playfield offer at the exact same time they announced Steve Ritchie was joining the company? It was a complete strategic move."

Jersey Jack strategically announced Steve Ritchie hiring to distract from playfield offer

"Maybe one of the, I do want to say this, okay, the best software team I ever worked with. Yeah. Three guys. What's so cool about them is they're constantly communicating."

Jersey Jack Pinball has the best software team Steve Ritchie has worked with

"It's like having the hottest chicken the world and you jump in the bed with her and then it's just not a good experience... that's like JJ P and a nutshell like it's like everything looks so amazing But there's just always something that feels like a compromise"

JJP makes the most visually appealing pinball machines but always has compromises that disappoint

"Let me tell you one word, Jack can't fucking figure out And that word is limited. ain't nothing Limited if you make 1000 of them motherfucker"

Jersey Jack Pinball doesn't understand 'limited' and makes too many copies

"the margin of error in how a game is set up the margin of error and how mechanisms are working is so is so minuscule with these Jersey Jack pirates games that there's a good chance that stuff just isn't working right"

Jersey Jack games are too finicky and fragile for consistent location play

"this is why it's really dangerous to do what Jack has done. Is he's allowed you to see a game and he allowed you to fall in love with the game that now has reduced the things that you fell in love with"

Jersey Jack's early reveals are dangerous - unlike Stern who only shows finished products

"I haven't heard them say they're sorry. I haven't heard Mirco say, I'm sorry that some of my playfields made their way to customers and have had issues. He's never said he's sorry. We've never heard an official apology from anyone over at JJP."

Jersey Jack needs to issue formal apologies for quality issues

"And it's gonna be the first cool Jersey Jack Pinball machine."

This will be the first cool Jersey Jack Pinball machine

"I see people try to compare Jersey Jack to this situation with Jack's bell out. And I see, I don't see those as the same thing."

Comparison between Jersey Jack and Heighway Pinball situations is invalid

"But if you buy our games, not only do you get it back in the cash box that Bill acceptor are a quad swipe, you get it back in the residual if you want to sell that game years later. It's not going to lose money."

Jersey Jack Pinball games hold their value better than other manufacturers

"I think that Jersey Jack Pinball is testing the waters at 11,500 dollars because I think they're going to charge 11,500 dollars for the Willy Wonka LE... I think jack's about to take his entire business up market and he needs to"

Jersey Jack Pinball needs to go upmarket and will charge $11,500 for Willy Wonka LE

"They're not doped like Jersey Jack, who makes 1,000 limited editions and then nothing's limited and nothing is special."

Jersey Jack makes too many limited editions, making nothing actually limited or special

"they should have gone back to the drawing board and said that people look here is the reality... It's gonna delay shipping for six months because we need to re-engineer... do you think anyone would Complain about that? No, no, nobody"

JJP should have delayed the game 6 months to properly re-engineer the features instead of rushing to production

"Jersey Jack Pinball on the contrary blabs everything online. Every ticket, every fact, and sales number."

Jersey Jack Pinball shares too much information compared to Stern

"It's so much better than anywhere else I've ever worked. They don't take things out of my game. Okay, my game is complete. It's all there. That makes me very happy."

Working at Jersey Jack Pinball is better than anywhere Steve Ritchie has worked before

"And I don't understand if you've got a billionaire backer, why aren't you designing every game to put as much as you can into that game... When you lift the hood on Toy Story, when you lift the hood on the Godfather, it's nowhere near as much in those games as games like the Wizard of Oz or Dialed In or the Hobbit."

Jersey Jack Pinball is designing to cost despite having billionaire backing

"I think this company is team itself up to knock it out of the F in park"

Jersey Jack Pinball is setting up for their most successful year ever with upcoming releases

"They are going to fail Kaneda. If walls and the hobbit weren't good enough and meant Jack needed 3 bailouts, dialed in is like a sure fire nail in the coffin."

Jersey Jack Pinball will fail and Jack Guarnieri should never have started a pinball company