22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
5:54 a.m.
I just wish there were west coast versions of this ;)
The major reason there was a never major west-coast pin industry was because of the cost of labor and doing business in CA. I talked to Nolan Bushnell about this at CGE2003...he said that there was no way they could have ever made anything except novelty pinballs, because of the high cost of labor (in the early days) and the environmental cost in later days. In order to compete with the lower labor costs in Chicago, they had to sell expensive, high-profit games. So the west coast industry center just never really developed much of a pin industry...I suspect that's why the big following is in the east, just as the huge video shows are in California. -Chris