Keith Elwin

"how are we gonna give keith elwin the greatest pinball designer in the world maybe in the history of pinball how are we gonna give keith elwin king kong and not star wars"

Keith Elwin should have gotten Star Wars instead of King Kong as the premier designer

"Keith Elwin is the best designer in Pinball. You're going to do Star Wars and you hand it to John Borg. Nothing against Borg, but he's not the hot director in Hollywood right now. It's Keith Elwin."

Keith Elwin is the best designer in pinball and should have gotten Star Wars instead of John Borg

"J.J.P. should pay Keith one million per year. I think he's worth that. I do. I think it's criminal. I don't think distributors should make more money than Keith L. Wins."

Keith Elwin should make $1 million per year and Jersey Jack should hire him

"Let me tell you right now, how many of you will ever be able to complete everything in that game? Start every single mode and then get to some super duper wizard mode. Like nobody, nobody. So why should Stern take resources away from other games and go code in something that nobody is ever going to see?"

Keith Elwin shouldn't waste resources on super wizard mode nobody will ever see

"Damn, the Owen army man. They've tried to get at us. Have you noticed the amount of Owen army influencers and content creators trying to force us to celebrate this game? Assetless King Kong."

Attacking Keith Elwin defenders and Owen army influencers

"We're just saying his winning streak is up on King Kong. It's just not a big enough theme."

Keith Elwin's winning streak is over with King Kong

"I'm going to talk about the pricing and how the great Keith Elwin can't sell out his own LE's"

Keith Elwin can't sell out his own LEs anymore

"The truth is this, he hasn't engineered anything nearly as impressive as Godzilla since Godzilla. He hasn't and Godzilla was $10,500 for the freaking LE. This game is $2,500 more than Godzilla. Does it look like there's more in it?"

Keith Elwin hasn't engineered anything as impressive as Godzilla since Godzilla, despite King Kong costing $2,500 more

"Is like bro, bro, you're the world's best pinball designer. I'm going to give you that. Stop moving in your chair. Like we're recording you."

Keith Elwin is world's best pinball designer but acts awkward in interviews

"That's what a Keith Elwin game is. It's a super satisfying shooter. Every single one of his games is super satisfying to shoot. There is not a Keith Elwin game that you walk up to and are frustrated by the gameplay."

Keith Elwin makes consistently excellent shooting games

"I feel this tremendous pressure by the pinball armies that are out there to just universally support anything if it's done by Keith Elwin"

Pinball community pressures universal support for Keith Elwin games

"He is the greatest modern pinball designer, and they're just waiting, ominously waiting in the shadows... I think it's going to be Godzilla and then some. I think it's going to be way better than Jaws."

Keith Elwin is the greatest modern pinball designer and King Kong will be better than Jaws

"He's the closer. He's he's, he's Glenn Gary Glen Ross. He's the Alec Baldwin character... He's the best, most bankable thing in all of pimple right now is Keith L win"

Keith Elwin is the best, most bankable thing in pinball - he's the closer

"The best designer in all of pinball with the best code team in all of pinball"

Keith Elwin is the best designer in all of pinball with the best code team

"if there's one major criticism of Keith Elwin games, it's they're maybe too hard for a lot of you... I think a lot of people out there just over time get a little frustrated with how hard Godzilla is. And you know, you're never going to get to the end... 98% of you won't"

Keith Elwin games are too hard for most players

"Keith Elwin is the only shore bet in all of pinball right now"

Keith Elwin is the only sure bet in pinball

"there is a 90% chance King Kong is gonna be amazing. And it's because of two things, Keith Elwin. And then it's because of his team over at Stern."

Keith Elwin and Stern team make King Kong likely to be amazing despite theme concerns

"But Keith Elwin is their guy. So when Stern Pinball says they need a huge hit, there really is only one guy right now that's been delivering huge hits for Stern Pinball."

Keith Elwin is Stern's only reliable hit-maker and can potentially save King Kong

"every single Stern LE that starts out at $13,000 is going to be worth $10,000 in just six months unless it's made by Keith Elwin"

Keith Elwin is the only designer whose games maintain value

"And what they're going to put into that game is going to be insane. And it's going to make owning it something you're going to want to own for the rest of your life. Because that's what Keith Elwin and his team does. They make games that you never really want to sell."

Keith Elwin makes games you never want to sell

"Isn't it funny though if it's in his own game? Isn't that a little bit ridiculous that he's like, I saw a mech the other day that I can't believe Stern pinball is making? And it's like, dude, it's your mech in your game"

Keith Elwin hyping a mech that's probably in his own King Kong game

"it's the best designer in modern pinball he is like I don't I don't know who's even second me I would say jack danger is number two"

Keith Elwin is the best modern pinball designer

"He's the best designer in pinball. I think the second best designer in pinball is Jack Danger. I think the third best designer in pinball right now is Steve Ritchie."

Keith Elwin is the best designer, followed by Jack Danger and Steve Ritchie

"Can he keep doing it? Jaws didn't wow us the way that Godzilla did... Eventually, you might run out of ideas. Eventually, it just might get to the point where you're really going to need more help in the toys and mechs department."

Keith Elwin may be running out of creative ideas

"Keith L N is the best pinball designer maybe of all time. He sells 40% of Stern's machines."

Keith Elwin is possibly the best pinball designer of all time and sells 40% of Stern's machines

"And that's why we see such good games from Keith Elwin. Because he does that and that team does that."

Keith Elwin produces superior games because of unified design vision with software team

"And he's the greatest pinball designer of modern times"

Keith Elwin is the greatest pinball designer of modern times

"There's a reason why Keith Elwin games play so well because he's one of the best players in the world. There's a reason why Jack Danger's games shoot so well because he's an amazing pinball player."

Keith Elwin and Jack Danger make great games because they are top-level players themselves

"Keith has had I Believe some issues In Making Games Easy To Understand And Instantly Approachable When It Comes To The Jersey Jack Code"

Keith Elwin has issues making Jersey Jack games easy to understand

"I really believe that Keith Elwin had a version of Jaws where it ate the ball and it was not fun. You know, I challenge Keith Elwin to show us then a video of the whitewood in which the Jaws mechanism eats the ball. Guess what? He does not have it."

Keith Elwin lied about trying a ball-eating Jaws mechanism

"I would go Godzilla, Iron Maiden, then Jaws, then I would go actually, yeah, you know, I would do that. I would do Godzilla. I would do Iron Maiden. Actually, no, I'm going to start. I'm going to go back again. I would actually go Godzilla Jurassic Park because Jurassic Park theme is so good. Then Iron Maiden, then Jaws, then Avengers"

Keith Elwin's games ranked from best to worst

"now that we've had so many Elwin games they're starting to feel somewhat similar"

Keith Elwin games are becoming repetitive and similar

"I heard that Steve Ritchie told somebody that Mark Seiden has more talent than Keith Elwin. And on his first game, he's running circles around Keith Elwin. Man, man, I feel like there is like real bitter blood between Steve Ritchie and Keith Elwin."

Steve Ritchie allegedly said Mark Seiden has more talent than Keith Elwin

"I would have to say that George Gomez's successor would most likely be Keith Elwin."

Keith Elwin would be George Gomez's spiritual successor at Stern

"And I don't believe Keith Elwin when he says it wasn't fun. What are you talking about Keith? How is this not more fun than hitting a captive ball? And I think Elwin's excuse is just that. I think it's an excuse."

Disagreement with Keith Elwin's excuse about Jaws shark mechanism

"Keith Elwin is one of the greatest designers in the history of pinball. Maybe the greatest designer, but he doesn't really have the charisma to be a salesperson of his own games."

Keith Elwin is one of the greatest pinball designers in history but lacks charisma to sell his own games

"I think Elwin's a little bit vulnerable with this game. I got to be honest. I think the door is open for Jersey Jack. The door is open now for Dutch pinball. The door is open for some other pinball company to wow us more than this game."

Keith Elwin is vulnerable with Jaws and door is open for competitors

"And I think Jaws is gonna change that, but as I keep saying, we can't rely only on Keith Elwin to do magical things in pinball if pinball prices are gonna be this high"

Keith Elwin is the only designer consistently creating magical mechanisms

"Like Keith Elwin, I would say he's worth a million dollars a year. Do you know much money he brings in to Stern pinball?"

Keith Elwin deserves million dollar salary for his impact on Stern

"the team that Keith elwin has over there is the best team in all of pinball right now they are better than everybody else they are leagues better than everybody else"

Keith Elwin's team is the best in pinball right now

"Like Keith is one-dimensional, just all-day multiball and everybody hates it. It's like chopping wood and for some reason he just can't get the memo. Stop putting so many multiballs into a game."

Keith Elwin is one-dimensional with too many multiballs in his games

"Keith Elwin just knows how to do it and until he fails, I am never going to predict a Keith Elwin failure."

Keith Elwin will deliver a great Jaws game despite potentially poor artwork and lack of assets

"all these companies better make as many games as they can before the next Keith Elwin machine."

Keith Elwin's upcoming Jaws will destroy other manufacturers' sales

"Keith Owen is the only guy that if you want one, you should move quickly because I don't see his stuff ever going down in value."

Keith Elwin's games hold value and you should move quickly on Jaws

"I think all of them know that Keith Elwin is waiting at the gates and seeing Keith Elwin's jaws at the gates of pinball has them all terrified. They know they only have like a three month window at most"

Keith Elwin's Jaws has all other companies terrified and rushing to market

"I mean, come on Eric, really, the one everybody would wish to design back to the future is no other than Keith Elwin. I wouldn't want to hand this game to just any designer. Why not have the best theme for pinball with the best designer in the pinball world right now?"

Keith Elwin should design Back to the Future, not any random designer

"Keith Elwin is the new king of pinball. Stern pinball knows that they invest the most in him. They give him the most resources. They give him a higher bomb because he delivers so much more than anybody else designing pinball these days."

Keith Elwin is the new king of pinball and everyone is waiting for his Jaws game

"I think Keith Owens game is going to be with Joe Kamnacow. I think it's going to be Jaws. I think it's going to blow us away. I think this game is going to be the game we all need. We haven't felt this way since Godzilla. Jaws is a theme that has more popularity with the pinball buying demographic. I think Jaws is going to crush."

Keith Elwin's next game (Jaws) will be exceptional

"in some weird way Keith Elwin is to blame. And here's why Keith Elwin is to blame. He made games that were too good for the company he works for... Keith Elwin's games have sort of spoiled pinball for a lot of people out there because they are so good. He has raised the bar."

Keith Elwin is to blame for spoiling pinball because his games are too good for Stern

"Keith Elwin and he doesn't do anything wrong in the world of Pinball... Keith Elwin seems to be the only one over there that can get actual stuff into his games."

Keith Elwin doesn't do anything wrong in pinball and is the only one at Stern who can get actual mechs into games