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Louis Koziarz

@koziarz.com

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Embedded systems farmer. Ex WMS, PLD, Stern pinball. Randomly posting wacky stuff I saved from my time in the coin-op business and most likely retold incorrectly. Stay Strong |✶✶✶✶|

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 11h

Melbourne? Great place.

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 11h

That's an amazing find! Never knew about that album art before but it totally makes sense now, doesn't it?

I knew the artists always would take inspiration from other models and figures. For example - the woman on the TOTAN backglass was Stephanie Seymour, traced from a Playboy or SI photo shoot.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 2d

Classified advertisement in BYTE Magazine, January 1980. Hmm.

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 2d

Leo should tell the six Catholics on the Supreme Court to get their shit together or they're excommunicated.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 13d

A group of three PC cards, one an AMD Radeon EX9060XT, the middle an Nvidia GeForce RTS5080 and the last a Realtek 10Gbps Ethernet card so you can not lag.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 6d

Just had a conversation with a nice French couple who said the problem with American protests is that we schedule them one by one instead of showing up every night until the change happens.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 8d

George Opperman? He's a legend! That's so cool.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 9d

Those people are awful. And I'm not referring to the jingle.

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 9d

I bought a GBA flash cart just to play the Japanese release of Mr Drlller 2.

Incredible game, but if you get cocky you're quickly punished. Woof!

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 9d

Beans are unbelievable....

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 9d

The horror...

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 10d

I've been told there's no JIRA in Sanctuary.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 10d

How do you describe a firm where all the early engineers and architects have left and what remains are younger people that happily fuck around in meetings all day but have no idea how any of the systems actually work?

I liken it to Logan's Run but that's lost on people as well because I'm an old.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 11d

Sircoma is another massive branch of history, becoming the massive IGT and worth 6 billion when they were acquired in 2015. And they were a constant thorn in Williams' side as they tried to get into gaming thanks to Ingvar Telnaes 🤣

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 11d

Wow! Beautiful work!

There must be a missing link between this era of trivia/quiz games and the modern age, which got us from standalone coin-op cabinets to bartop machines. And then grey-market poker games got into the mix along the way as well?

A bunch of stuff from Greyhound. Fuhgetaboutit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Electronics

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 11d

Williams did *two* games with Keanu on it. 😜

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 14d

"I must be tripping balls here, Tom. What the hell did you do to this playfield?"

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 14d

Yes, yes there are.

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl! 1976 Krofft Brothers production.

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 15d

It's a Friday night in DuPage County, Illinois. Whatcha gonna do?

Gala Lanes! Featuring top national shows, bowling, and some pinball machines in the back.

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 16d

I'm pretty sure we did have an internal chat going so we could do daily things without leaving the desk. Most importantly, arrange lunch and snacks between Half-Life deathmatches.

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 16d

Well, you had fireside chats at Pinball Expo before that, but yeah it was probably one of the first online experiences.

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 16d

Tom always made the line workers nervous because if he was around it meant there was a quality or service issue with production that he wanted to discuss... 🤣

Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 17d

I wish she would pop up on Bluesky sometime, now that she's famous and all...

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 17d

Anyway, if you were a visible net-based pinball fan/critic in the 90s-00s we probably talked about you behind your back at one point in time or another, and I apologize for that. Maybe. 😘

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