George Gomez

Am I gonna have to take this whole-"

Just hit up George Gomez

"... fucking thing apart?" Jesus.

Dude, I don't-

Or, I mean, get my hands...

Actually owning one, one of these days.

Have you heard George Gomez, uh, tell his kinda story about when he, uh, had to, had to make that game?

Probably.

And this is not, um...

You know, we're not, we're not talking any trash about this person.

There is...

You know, when you, when you don't know what goes into this, people don't think it's, like, a real business.

I would, like...

But here, they bothered to put an insert for new lock down bar latches, so they knew that this information was incorrect.

And instead of getting rid of this document or redoing it, like any sane person would do-

Uh-huh

Brand new, I heard on the Flippin' Out interview.

Hot, fresh talent? With the George Gomez interview of Flippin' Out.

Really? Which was a great interview.

I

Brian J. wrote in again.

Gentlemen, every time George Gomez is on a podcast, he is an incredible listen.

He always comes across as honest and forthcoming as much as he can be without divulging upcoming releases or timelines.

He is in his 70s and does not appear to be slowing down, but eventually age catches up to all of us.

However, I don't think Stern wants to have him not be a full-time designer.

Because his designs are what are moving and making money.

And as popular as George Gomez is... he's generally not in the list of a tier designers.

Like if people were to say like of the, of the nine, like it's, you know, Richie and Lawler and

They had other machines there, but I just played the Fallout pinball, and I talked to a pinball legend, a designer legend, essentially.

Legend for me, this gentleman, George Gomez, was there, and then also the designer of the actual game itself.

I had an interview with him, and you'll hear that later on the show.

That was pretty awesome.

And they said they were going to shut down the pinball division because it wasn't profitable.

And they said, we've got this concept, Pinball 2000, which

I found at George Gomez.

This guy invented it.

It shows them.

Do I think he was talking about us? We're talking about George Gomez.

So do you

know what he said? Oh, I didn't hear about it.

Yep.

Gomez finally speaks publicly about the reasons why Transforming Optimus was scrapped.

That was another thing from the George Gomez interview that you wanted to bring up.

Yeah,

And yeah, Um, it's funny.

I think that Stern has really come to rely like, dude, when you talk to George Gomez or any of those people, like, especially George Gomez, he'll like talk about, he's like, you know, I think that's something that like aftermarket can make, you know? So that's really funny.

It's like, I will probably see one of these guys do the, um, transforming optimist, you know, like,

yeah, I'm sure people are really working on it right now, but have you

He designed Fallout.

So I, I was able to, like, interview talk to him, and then after the fact, I saw a, a familiar face, George Gomez, and I recognized him because he's always the talking head in all the Stern Pinball PR videos.

Oh, funny.

He's the CEO, the chief creative officer, but he's also an arcade guy back from the '80s.

Or maybe some arcades are owned by private collectors, and they'll put them in their homes.

But yeah, it's a, it's a crazy ass market.

And, like, I asked George Gomez, the head of Stern, like, I'm very much noticing, like, they're...

A lot of old pinball machines are based on, like, '80s properties.

Oh, that's right.

George Gomez put that out.

I think

it's mid-September, so...