Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

Dec 09 2024 60 ep. 48 mins 27

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A weekly pinball podcast brought to you by the people that run Wedgehead, a pinball bar in Portland, Oregon. Each week Alan and Alex discuss a different pinball topic, with a focus on location play, often with other interesting guests.

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Episode 60 - Die on This Hill: World Poker Tour

Dec 09 2024 56 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastLocal Deathsave enthusiast Jeff Hart returns to the show to defend Stern's 2006 game, World Poker Tour against all the internet haters. This is one of those games with a star studded design team, loaded with mechanical features, and yet it still is widely derided by many pinheads.Jeff is here to set the record straight, and respon

Episode 59 - How to Run an Independent Pinball Bar

Dec 02 2024 55 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode Alan recaps the seminar that he was a panelist on for the 40th Annual Pinball Expo in Chicago and sort of reprises his notes for you all to listen to.The panelists were 3 independent Arcade Bar Owners, Zespy of Logan Arcade in Chicago, Rachel & Cale of the Electric Bat Arcade in Tempe, and your very own Rhodesie &

Episode 58 - DEATHSAVES

Nov 25 2024 44 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe are joined on this episode by admitted cheater, local Portland player Jeff Hart, to discuss the dark arts of pinball: The deathsave and it's little brother, the bangback.We discuss the moves, the ethics of doing them from a player's and operator's perspective, and why they aren't allowed in tournament play. Alan argues for chan

Episode 57 - Pinball AirBnB / DOTH Road Kings

Nov 18 2024 51 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode we interview a fan of the show Mike, who runs a cool AirBnB in Troy, NY near Albany. He has 15 pinball machines in the apartment that are all on free play for the guests, and we talk with him about this unusual but very cool way to operate pinball in an unconventional way.Mike tells us how he got started collecting

Episode 56 - One Year Anniversary Q+A

Nov 11 2024 94 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode we are belatedly celebrating our one year anniversary of hosting this weekly pinball show.We asked y'all to submit some questions, and boy did you! We try and answer all of your questions that you sent in to us, although a few came in after we recorded this episode and we will save them for another time.Thank you t

Episode 55 - Operator Spotlight: Quarters SLC

Nov 04 2024 49 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastOur buddy Mike from Quarters and Quarters Sugarhouse joins us on the show to discuss operating two arcade bars in Salt Lake City, Utah.We talk about his start in the bar business, and all the unique challenges that running a bar in the state of Utah entails. Mike enlightens us on his local pinball scene and speaks about the decisi

Episode 54 - Pinball Metamorphosis: The System 11 Era Pt.2

Oct 28 2024 45 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis is the second part of our series about the groundbreaking Williams System 11 games, and we discuss the second half of them, including games from the recently acquired Bally pinball division which injected even more creative juice into the parent company.Ty Palmer is back for part two, and we talk about games like Whirlwind, E

Episode 53 - Pinball Metamorphosis: The System 11 Era Pt.1

Oct 21 2024 46 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastOur good friend and solid state pinball guru, Ty Palmer joins us for the first episode in our two part series on the Williams System 11 platform, a pinball board set and software framework that massively changed the game of pinball.Larry Demar designed and engineered this groundbreaking system, and programmed many of the best game

Episode 52 - Gateway Games

Oct 14 2024 54 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode Alan and Alex discuss the best games to trick your normie friends and family into liking and playing pinball. We discuss the parameters of what we think makes a great gateway game, what makes a bad gateway game, and tips for making their first time playing more fun.We are also now accepting questions for our 1 year

Episode 51 - How to Draw Dinosaurs w/ Johnny Crap

Oct 07 2024 49 mins

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode, freelance pinball artist Jonathan Bergeron joins us from his studio in Montreal, Canada to discuss his life as a commercial artist doing gig posters and merch designs for bands like Mastodon, Guns 'n Roses, Suicidal Tendencies, Judas Priest, and many many more, as well as how he got pulled into the pinball industr