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/wedgeheadpodcast
If you have any questions, or might want to guest on a future episode, please email : wedgeheadinfo@gmail.com.
Episodes
61 episodes
Episode 61 - Tournament Pinball
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 ...
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Episode 60 - Die on This Hill: World Poker Tour
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....
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Episode 59 - How to Run an Independent Pinball Bar
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 not...
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Episode 58 - DEATHSAVES
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 ...
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Episode 58
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Episode 57 - Pinball AirBnB / DOTH Road Kings
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 i...
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Episode 56 - One Year Anniversary Q+A
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 sub...
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Episode 55 - Operator Spotlight: Quarters SLC
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....
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Episode 54 - Pinball Metamorphosis: The System 11 Era Pt.2
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, includ...
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Episode 53 - Pinball Metamorphosis: The System 11 Era Pt.1
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...
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Episode 53
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Episode 52 - Gateway Games
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 ...
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Episode 51 - How to Draw Dinosaurs w/ Johnny Crap
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 commercia...
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Episode 50 - The 90s Pinball Renaissance Pt.2 w/ Roger Sharpe
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThe man/myth/legend Roger Sharpe is back again on the show to speak more about the pinball renaissance of the 1990s. In this seco...
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Episode 49 - The 90s Pinball Renaissance Pt.1 w/ Roger Sharpe
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastAlan and Alex are joined on the show once again by Roger Sharpe, aka the 'Man Who Saved Pinball' to discuss his career at Williams from...
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Episode 48 - Insider Connected
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastAlan and Alex are joined on the show by their friend Tyler White from LA to discuss Stern's Insider Connected platform, and why he love...
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Episode 48
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Episode 47 - Gottlieb vs. Paramount Pictures
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode, our friend and member of our local Portland Pinball scene, Nate Tayloe joins us on the show to educate us on the weird...
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Episode 46 - Die on this Hill: Rocky & Bullwinkle
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastTy Ueda from Pop's Pinball Parlor in Boston, Ma. is back to defend another game on the show, this time it's 1993's Rocky & Bullwink...
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Episode 46
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Episode 45 - Pinball Art Director w/ Greg Freres
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe're joined again on the show by Greg Freres whom we spoke to in the last episode, about the legendary Bally Art Department of the ear...
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Episode 44 - The Notorious Bally Art Department w/ Greg Freres
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode, Alan and Alex are joined on the show by long time pinball artist Greg Freres, and they discuss Greg's time working in ...
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Episode 43 - MEGALOCATIONS!
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this MEGA sized episode of the podcast, Alan and Alex discuss the rise and increase in the number of pinball MEGALOCATIONS with 100+...
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Episode 42 - Die on this Hill: Sega Godzilla
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastSean Irby, homebrew pinball designer from our last episode rejoins the show to defend his "Die on this Hill" game: Sega's Godzilla....
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Episode 41 - Homebrew Games
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode, Alan and Alex are joined on the show by Sean Irby, a northwest pinball neighbor from Seattle to discuss the making and...
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Episode 40 - Die on this Hill: Hook
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this special edition of our popular 'Die on this Hill' series, Alan teams up with his buddy AJ, the owner and operator of the Flip a...
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Episode 39 - Operator Spotlight: Flip a Coin
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe are joined on the show by Adam 'AJ' Jordan, owner and operator of the 'Flip a Coin Arcade' that they built in the basement of his gi...
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