RePlay Magazine Podcast

Talk about a fun interview, and what else would you expect from a conversation with one of the true legends of coin-op game design, Eugene Jarvis!   Eugene has been involved in a seemingly endless stream of video game hits including classics like Defender, Robotron: 2084 and the Cruis’n series and, after co-founding Raw Thrills, Target: Terror, Fast and Furious Arcade, SuperBikes and Godzilla Kaij...

No doubt, you already know of Nolan Bushnell. Considered the father of the video game industry, his decades of curiosity, hustle, knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurship not only ushered in the Golden Era of the video game (Computer Space, Pong, Atari) and the family entertainment center model (Chuck E. Cheese), but had a far-reaching impact across many companies and technologies. RePlay Podcas...

Glenn Streeter had a passion for antique radios, and got his hobby started in his garage in 1977. He found his way into the coin machine business by hand-building reproduction, nostalgic-styled jukeboxes. From a storefront on Ventura Boulevard in LA’s San Fernando Valley, Glenn’s Antique Apparatus’ reputation for quality and craftsmanship grew as rock stars, other luminaries and regular folks came...

This RePlay Magazine Podcast episode just might be from the most exotic location we’ll ever have as Randy Chilton visits with Game Exchange of Colorado’s Rich Babich, who was docked in Bora Bora at the time of the chat. Rich and his wife of 50 years, Bev, were celebrating last year’s golden anniversary with a 4-and-a-half-month cruise, seeing the world. On the business side, Rich has sure seen the...

If you’ve been in coin-op any appreciable amount of time, you know the name Frank Seninsky (​maybe you know him by his alter ego “Frank the Crank”), and if you’re fortunate, you’ve had the opportunity to work with him and call him a friend. Since he started in coin-op in 1969 with a $25 investment, placing a Gottlieb North Star pinball machine in his college fraternity house, Frank has been all-in...

RePlay Magazine Podcast host Randy Chilton had the great pleasure of sitting down with industry icon and member of the Amusement Industry Hall of Fame Malcolm Steinberg for Episode 7. People in the coin machine world will know Malcolm from his years at the helm of LAI Group, but what many might not know is how he entered the amusement industry.  Impatient to get started in business, Malcolm left h...

As host publication RePlay Magazine celebrates its 50 years of covering the coin-op industry, it’s only right that Randy Chilton sits down with Publisher Eddie Adlum for a two-part episode.   The wide-ranging interview begins all the way back in the East Bronx, where Eddie was born and raised. Eddie shares tales from his teenage years, about his band The Castle Kings (which had two singles for Atl...

As host publication RePlay Magazine celebrates its 50 years of covering the coin-op industry, it’s only right that Randy Chilton sits down with Publisher Eddie Adlum for a two-part episode.   The wide-ranging interview begins all the way back in the East Bronx, where Eddie was born and raised. Eddie shares tales from his teenage years, about his band The Castle Kings (which had two singles for Atl...

Episode 5 of the RePlay Podcast features Jim Stansfield Jr. of Stansfield Vending of LaCrosse, Wisc., the man who host Randy Chilton calls “the consummate amusement operator.” Jim began working for his father back in the days of nickel bingo machines and over time, built a very sizable business. Upon his retirement, Stansfield Vending was initially sold to his daughters Janet and Julie; today, it’...

You can’t talk about pinball today without starting with Gary Stern, the founder and executive chairman of Stern Pinball whose passion for the game has been demonstrated time and time again. In episode #4 of the RePlay Podcast, Gary takes veteran operator and host Randy Chilton on a fascinating journey through his business and personal life, recounting how he got started with his father Sam and th...

The RePlay Podcast returns with an interesting and insightful chat with Bob Geschine, president and CEO of H. Betti Industries. Bob, a recent recipient of Amusement Industry Hall of Fame honors from AAMA, has made many contributions to the company we know as “Betson.” Bob came aboard as controller, taking a pay cut to do so, and has been one of the guiding hands shaping its growth and future ever...

In Episode 2 of the RePlay Podcast, we chat with Terry Moss (Moss Distributing). In the 1960s, Terry was working in the music industry in Los Angeles when a tragic plane crash claimed the life of his father and pulled him back home to Des Moines, Iowa, to run the family business. We’ll never know how Terry Moss might have shaped the business of music over a lengthy career, but he’s had a significa...

Welcome to Episode 1 of the RePlay Magazine Podcast, hosted by Randy Chilton, which will share interesting bits of “coin-op” history and entertaining stories from industry greats – the visionaries, legends and characters that make the business fun!  Our first guest is George McAuliffe, founder of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. George has decades of experience and has touched just about every part o...