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Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

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.Support our show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIf you have any questions, or might want to guest on a future episode, please email : wedgeheadinfo@gmail.com.

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Episode 104 - John Borg: The Man Who Doesn't F*&k Around

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2025/11/03

Support the show and get access to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast We are discussing the pinball career of legendary pinball designer and mechanical engineer, John Borg. He worked at Premier, Data East, Sega, and still works at Stern to this day, and we deep dive into his games and what design hallmarks that he is best known for. As always though, just like John, we don't f*&k around on this show. Curse words are present. Career Retrospective Seminar Expo 2024 ...

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Episode 103 - Die on this Hill: Shaq Attaq

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2025/10/20

Support the show and get a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast Our friend Paul, a video game designer and aspiring pinball designer joins us on the show to defend his DOTH Game: SHAQ ATTAQ! At the time of recording, this is the 8th lowest rated game of all time on the pinside list, and the second lowest rated game that we have covered on the show. But Paul joined us to set the record straight (with some choice swear words)! Support the show

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Episode 102 - Community Building

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2025/10/06

Support the show and get a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast We're back with a nice culmination episode that pieces together a lot of bits and themes from the last 100+ episodes of the show, and compiled them into a nice and tight episode not only showcasing the importance of community building, but also some actionable advice for how to grow a scene around you, no matter where you live. But as long-time listeners already know, we swear when we record the show, so...

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55:41

Episode 101 - The Greatest Game of All Time is...

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2025/09/22

Support the show and get a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast Waterboy is back with his own response to the age-old question: what is the greatest pinball machine of all time? As always with our show, swear words were used in the making of this episode. Support the show

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REDACTED Episode

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2025/09/15

Well... unfortunately sh*t happens. We will be back though, although we don't know if we will ever get to release episode 100 for y'all or not. It was a DOOZIE. Support the show

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Episode 99 - Much Ado About Toppers

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2025/09/08

Support the show and receive a link to the private discord chat: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast Alex is bringing y'all a very special episode of the show all about one of the dumbest and yet most discussed aspects of the pinball hobby today, and that's TOPPERS! Warning: curse words were cursed in the making of this episode. Support the show

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63:23

Episode 98 - Evolution of the Flipper

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2025/09/01

Support the show & receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode is all about the pinball's most important mech, the flipper. We cover the history and evolution of the flipper, discuss how they work, and the differences in flipper feel over the years. Warning: We manage to discuss some of the science behind electricity while still managing to swear quite a bit. Support the show

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Episode 97 - The Music of Chris Granner w/ Chris Granner

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2025/08/25

Support the show & receive a link to our private discord channel to chat with us and other supporters of the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast In this very special episode of the show, legendary sound designer Chris Granner joins us once again. In the last episode we discussed his career, and his artistic process, but in this episode, we listen to selections from 15 different games and over 50 pieces of his music, and Chris tells us about each one. Our first episode covered the artist, and...

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Episode 96 - Pinball Composer w/ Chris Granner

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2025/08/18

Support the show & receive a link to the private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast A very special interview with LEGENDARY pinball composer and sound designer Chris Granner. Chris worked at Williams, Capcom, and Stern and his name is credited on the sound packages of more than 40 pinball machines during his career. He is the man responsible for most of your favorite games, and it was a pleasure to have him on the show. Be warned though, we do swear on this show. More Granner Interviews ...

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Episode 95 - Playfield Multipliers

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2025/08/11

Support the show and receive a link to the private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast In this episode we talk about the invasive species of multipliers that have invaded the old school bonus multipliers habitat and completely overrun it. Alan discusses why he thinks all games are better without them, and Alex argues why they are good sometimes. In case you don't know, we swear on the show. Support the show

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Episode 94 - Pinball Hindsight Awards 1985

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2025/08/04

Support the show & receive a link to the private discord chat: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast We're back to honor another year in pinball history, with the Pinball Hindsight Awards of 1985! This was a major downturn of the industry, but that doesn't mean that there still aren't some great games released this year, and we honor all of them in this episode with some awards given out with the power of hindsight! This isn't network television, so we do swear on the show. Support the show

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Episode 93 - John Popadiuk: Pinball's Magic Man

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2025/07/28

Support the show & receive a link to the private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode is all about the rise and fall of one of pinball's most magnificent and enigmatic designers, Mr. John Popadiuk Jr., sometimes better known as JPOP in pinball nerd circles. He made a string of some the absolute best games in the 1990s including World Cup Soccer, Theatre of Magic, Tales of the Arabian Nights, and Cirqus Voltaire. But after the closure of Williams' pinball division...

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Episode 92 - Programmers: The Unsung Heroes of Pinball

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2025/07/21

Support the show and receive a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast Join us as we discuss with frequent guest on the show Greg Dunlap to discuss the important role that programmers play in the design and development of pinball machines as we talk about all the many different ways that programmers can influence a player's perception positively or negatively through their work. But there's some tasteful swearing present throughout. Support the show

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Episode 91 - Stern's Dark Age: Pinball in the 2000s

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2025/07/14

Support the show & get a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode features former guest on the show, and dot matrix pinball programmer Greg Dunlap to discuss how Gary Stern ends up surviving TWO pinball extinction events at the turn of the millennium, and then another one at the end of the decade. This is the only era in pinball's long history where there was only a single manufacturer in business. Gary made a lot of tough calls and hard decisions ...

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Episode 90 - Pinball Hindsight Awards 1990

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2025/07/07

Support the show & get a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This is the first ever award show that attempts to get the calls right, all with the power of HINDSIGHT. So, for this first Pinball Hindsight Awards Episode, we chose the year 1990, and are giving out the test of time awards to games like Dr. Dude, Funhouse, Whirlwind, Rollergames and many more. Warning: adult language and no-no words are used for effect. Support the show

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Episode 89 - Die on this Hill: Star Wars Episode One

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2025/06/30

Support the show and receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode Alan & Alex are joined on the show to discuss the short-lived Pinball 2000 platform, and Ian defends SWE1, the last game that Williams pinball ever made against a flood of bad reviews. I mention in this episode a fantastic documentary that you should check out, called TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball check it out to learn more about this incredible project. As always though: this is ...

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Episode 88 - Pinball on Location

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2025/06/23

Support the show and get a link to the private dischord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode is all about why pinball's natural habitat is on location, and why location pinball still matters (and matters much more than private collections) in the year 2025 and beyond. Our whole podcast is basically centered around the importance of pinball being put on location, but this episode in particular is a love letter to on location pinball ...with swearing. Support the show

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57:40

Episode 87 - Pinball is Supposed to be HARD!

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2025/06/16

Support the show and receive a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode is all about the joys and fun that a hard game of pinball brings. For whatever reason this seems to be a minority opinion in the modern era, even though we set out to prove that pinball was always supposed to be hard, and that challenging games are way more fun in the long run. Obligatory naughty language warning. Support the show

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Episode 86 - Pinball Economics 101

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2025/06/09

Support the show & receive a link to the private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode has been teased multiple times over the run of the show, and is a solo episode based upon what I started out writing as a short article about the business of location pinball, the economics of it, and the feasibility of pinball earning money on location. What started out as a short article quickly grew wider in scope, and eventually I just felt like it would make a better podcas...

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Episode 85 - Die on this Hill: Future Spa

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2025/06/02

Support the show & get a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast Good friend of the show and all-around expert solid state assassin, Ty Palmer joins us on the show once again for his SIXTH appearance to defend his DOTH game, 1979's Future Spa. Designed by George Christian and released by Bally in their golden era, this game is a super wide body with a very weird and very horny art package, but it's also a game that is widely mocked. At least it was, until this epis...

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