"I also just love the fact that people are excited by a game that doesn't have an LCD screen. I don't understand why this would upset anybody. And here's why, because if you like an LCD screen, guess what? Everyone else is making games with an LCD screen."
Games without LCD screens are better because they're less confusing and more accessible
"I would argue the LCD screen has taken away a lot of the creativity that used to go on to the playfield, because nowadays they'll just rely on the screen itself to create the environment or the scene or the mode where they used to put that stuff physically on the game itself."
LCD screens have reduced creativity on playfields compared to physical features
"I love pinball because it's analog. It's physical. If I wanted to play an iPad, I would just play Candy Crush on an iPad. I don't want to play virtual pinball on a physical pinball machine."
Prefers physical mechanical features over LCD screens in pinball
"I've had a lot of pinball fanatics come to me and say Chris the greatest thing that hurt pinball was the LCD screen. The moment the LCD screen went into pinball machines and we moved away from Dot Matrix it gave the designers the ability and the companies the ability to take a lot of the magic off of the playfield and put it onto the screen"
LCD screens hurt pinball by allowing manufacturers to move magic from physical playfield to screens instead of physical toys
"Nowadays, if they'd designed Lord of the Rings, Ballrog would be on the screen. He would be on the screen, and there would just be a target. He wouldn't be a bash toy. The ring itself, the magnetic ring, probably would not exist. It would be on the screen."
LCD screens have made pinball developers lazy by moving action off the playfield
"I would stop leaning into the LCD as the main place where theme integration is happening. And I would look to create more of the themes world on the playfield."
Modern pinball relies too much on LCD screens instead of creating magic on the playfield
"so much of pinball now is being critiqued by what's up on the LCD screen. Right. And it's, yeah, it's almost like people are missing the game. And even the games themselves, it's like, are we are we watching something or are we playing something? You can't do both at the same time. When you're playing pinball, you're looking down"
Modern pinball focuses too much on LCD screens instead of gameplay
"LCD screens become in the de facto toy. A screen with a couple of buttons underneath it. And you whack the screen with a pinball. And I think that would be very bad for pinball"
LCD screens are becoming lazy design and bad for pinball
"I really don't think LCD screens put into games, show any originality at all. And here's the reason why. It just looks like there's a TV dropped into the middle of the Star Wars universe."
LCD screens dropped into playfields show no originality and are a creative mistake