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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 76 - Original Themes

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2025/03/31

Support the show & join our private Discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This is a good one, where we discuss how Williams was able to prove that during the renaissance period of the late 1980s and 1990s, they were able to design, manufacture, and most importantly, SELL the crap outta their original theme games. In this episode, we talk about how Williams beat their competition with original themes and then discuss why almost all of the modern original IP themes suck. Warning: we sw...

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Episode 75 - Die on this Hill: Raven w/ Scott Danesi

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2025/03/24

Support the show & join our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast Scott Danesi rejoins us on the show to defend his love of Gottlieb Premier's Raven, the lowest rated game that we have ever featured on the show! Scott goes on the record with why he thinks Raven is actually great and confronts and addresses all the bad internet reviews. Standard warning: We curse on this show; in case you weren't aware of these fact in the first 74 episodes of this podcast. Support the ...

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Episode 74 - The Mind of Scott Danesi

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2025/03/17

Support the show & receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast In this episode, we are joined on the show by the patron saint of making pinball challenging again, Scott Danesi. Scott works a full time job at Pinball Life as a multidisciplinary engineer, creating replacement pinball parts for all of us to benefit from, but he also famously has designed 3 (as of this recording) production pinball machines. Scott is also one of the nicest dudes in pinball, ...

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Episode 73 - Gottlieb System 3: The End of an Empire

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2025/03/10

Support the show: https:/ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast In this episode we discuss the final chapter of Gottlieb as a pinball manufacturer. The prevailing narrative around these games is that they're all terrible, but that's simply not true. There was a bunch of talented individuals working at Gottlieb at this time, making some very interesting games on extremely tight deadlines, with few resources and we wanted to highlight their talents and work. You may know these games by their po...

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Episode 72 - Operator Spotlight: Astoria Pinball

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2025/03/03

Support the show: https:/ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast We are joined on the show by our friend Todd Robinett, to discuss creating a pinball scene from scratch in a small town near the Oregon Coast. He operates pins in his two businesses: the Merry Time Bar, and the Labor Temple Diner. When Todd first moved out to Astoria, there were no pinball machines. Now Astoria has 45 pinball machines on location in a town of 10,000 people, and Todd operates about half of these games. Todd tells ...

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Episode 71 - Women's Competitive Pinball

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2025/02/24

Support the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast IFPA director, and former women's world champion Zoe Vrabel is back on the show to discuss the past, present, and future of women's competitive pinball. Zoe tells us all about the rise of competitive women's pinball, and what she would like to see in the future. Stream the Women's World Championship March 29th-30th on Twitch through Backhand Pinball Local Portland Women's events mentioned in the show: Gator Queens - Every last Monday of the m...

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Episode 70 - Legendary Women of the Pinball Industry

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2025/02/17

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast In this episode, Alan is joined on the show by Zoe Vrabel, an IFPA director and former Women's World Champion to discuss some of the legendary women who have worked in the pinball industry, and we discuss their impact on the games that we all know and love. ....but, we do swear sometimes. Support the show

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Episode 69 - Die on this Hill: High Roller Casino

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2025/02/10

Support the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode our special guest Glenn Waechter (of the Saw Homebrew machine) joins us on the show, to Die on the Hill for Stern's 2001 game, High Roller Casino. This early stern, rare non licensed title wasn't well received upon its release, as evidenced by all the bad reviews we found, and it's low overall rating on pinside. But it was loaded with cool mechs and toys, and actually features a very deep ruleset, complete with 3 wizard modes. ...

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Episode 68 - Band Pins

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2025/02/03

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcast This episode is all about the history of the licensed band pin starting way back in the late 1970s, with a couple dots in the 1990s, and finally into the explosion of them in the 2010s until today. We talk about the effect it has had on the industry, and why, love 'em or hate 'em, old man band pins are here to stay. Warning: If you don't know by now, the explicit warning you see listed in your podcatcher is there because we swear when we...

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Episode 67 - Pinball Seller's Guide

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2025/01/27

Support the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis is the finale episode of our 3-part trilogy of episodes that began with the first episode: Pinball Buyer's Guide, continued in our episode Pinball Maintenance, and finally culminates in this episode right here.Alex and Alex talk about coming full circle on a pinball machine and give you some hot tips for kicking that giant box of lights down the road.And if you're new to the show: we do all of that whilst swearing. This is your warning.Su...

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Episode 66 - Pinball Maintenance

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2025/01/20

Support the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastCompanion piece episode here from Alan to talk about how to maintain that pinball machine that Alex convinced y'all to buy in the Pinball Buyer's guide episode.There's a lot of bad or wildly unnecessary advice and ridiculous precautions out there on the forums, and it can get confusing fast as others loudly argue amongst themselves about what cleaner is or is not appropriate. Do we replace the balls immediately out of the box? Every 300 plays?...

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Episode 65 - Die on this Hill: Wheel of Fortune

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2025/01/13

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastScott & Ryan, the creators of the Pinball Map are back on the show to defend Scott's DOTH game: Stern's 2007 machine, Wheel of Fortune. It's got a tweaked lower playfield, a theme nobody asked for, and code that was never completed. But Scott loves this game. So listen up as Ryan and Alan read him all the bad reviews pulled from the internet and get his reaction to the haters.Obligatory: Yes, we swear on this show by adults f...

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Episode 64 - Pinball Buyer's Guide

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2025/01/06

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis is a sequel to our earlier episode 16 - So You Wanna Buy a Pinball Machine? And in that episode (which we HIGHLY recommend listening to first) we mostly discuss a lot of the things that we wish we knew before we bought our first pinball machines, including a lot of the downsides that you might not even be thinking about.But this episode is a deeper dive taking the plunge, and in particular, buying used games, which is a whole lot ...

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Episode 63 - The Pinball Map

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2024/12/30

Support the Show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode features an interview with Ryan and Scott, two regular guys and former roommates who created the Pinball Map all the way back in 2008 right here in Portland, Oregon.Alan talks to Ryan and Scott about the history of this incredible resource, and they talk about the expansions to bring in more cities and regions, the development of the app, the changes in features over the years, and we end the episode discussing some fun stats an...

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Episode 62 - Fan Layouts

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2024/12/23

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode is all about the hotly debated definition of what a fan layout is, what it isn't, whether they are good, or whether they are cookie cutter derivative BS. We discuss the history of them, some of the most famous ones, and some of the designers most associated with them. And at the end of the episode we even argue about some "modified" fan layouts that really seem to kick the old hornets nest amongst public opinions on how br...

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Episode 61 - Tournament Pinball

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2024/12/16

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode, we are joined by our friend Isaac Ruiz, a legendary tournament director and organizer from the Portland scene to discuss the rise of tournament pinball here, breaking the IFPA rankings systems in the early 2010s, developing Brackelope, the world's first software for running pinball tournaments, some format explanations for new players curious about all the jargon, and some advice for players who want to TD their own tournaments...

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Episode 60 - Die on This Hill: World Poker Tour

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2024/12/09

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 respond to the all the criticisms. Maybe it's time for you to give WPT another chance.Warning: our language...

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Episode 59 - How to Run an Independent Pinball Bar

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2024/12/02

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 & Alan of Wedgehead in Portland.The topic was "How to Run a Successful Independent Arcade Bar", and Alan is he...

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Episode 58 - DEATHSAVES

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2024/11/25

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 changes from the manufacturer to disable them, and Alex outs himself as a proud cheater too.Warning: this is a ...

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Episode 57 - Pinball AirBnB / DOTH Road Kings

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2024/11/18

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, and then the decision to open up his collection to guests in the basement apartment under his home.Mike a...

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