Quoted from vdojaq:

I hear there may be an influx of former IRS employees looking for work?

Quoted from fenix501:

I’m trying to imagine who exactly would pick AP/Aimtron/Funsup/ThatAin’tGonnaWork.com to produce anything? How careless would you have to be in your due diligence to imagine that “they” could produce anything? Who is that, exactly? Unless you filter your search results for only RMS1977 postings? He’s quite certain that this cunning pivot is JUST the thing that going to turn it all around. Not that anything needs turning around because the new game is great and he got free springs.
You’d have to ignore a really large amount of red flags in your research to end up at, “These guys are going to crush this for us - let’s hire them!”
It’s pretty easy to create a webpage with a painful logo and some “borrowed” pictures. Actually manufacturing something is a just a wee bit harder. This is like the central tenet of Pinside. “Pinball is hard.”
I will say the 45 year old picture with a guy in bell bottoms in the new Funsup site’s “Arcade” factory pic is pretty sweet. Just don’t click on the link please.
It’s all over except the lawsuits, finger-pointing, bankruptcies, recriminations, Pinside posts of pictures of the factory being emptied in the middle of the night and somebody blaming Marty Robbins for most or all of it.

Quoted from rosh:

This is a fairly optimistic view, but certainly a step towards reality.

Quoted from Silvergun360:

These “Fun is Up” puns, haha. Really got the juice going with this discovery, love it!
Hey, let’s see if they can even get Cuphead to market. It’s going to be almost two years until we see another game from AP at this point.
On a side note, I think the Polycade seems to be doing well because my kid’s dentist office just got one for their waiting room. Someone else in another chat said he saw one on a cruise ship. They might have something going there.

Quoted from rosh:

This is a fairly optimistic view, but certainly a step towards reality. You have left out all of the upfront engineering, cost for CM services provided to get the game ready for production and don’t forget about costs for documentation/manual, packing materials, shipping to your warehouse, marketing, warrantee, spare parts, the list goes on and on...