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.
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If you have any questions, or might want to guest on a future episode, please email : wedgeheadinfo@gmail.com.
Episodes
118 episodes
Bonus Episode - Best Game Ever: ADDAMS FAMILY
Support the show and receive your link to the private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastBonus Episode of the show coming at you featuring two local portland players and friends who met th...
Episode 116 - Pokémon
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThere's something very different about Stern's latest game, and for really the first time ever ...
Episode 115 - The Age of Desperation and Innovation: Gottlieb System 80A
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode we cover the 20 machines that Gottlieb made from 1982-1985 and discuss all the weird, ...
Episode 114 - Die on this Hill: Austin Powers
Support the show and get a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastOur friend Lisa, a pinball tech at Next Level comes on the show to defend her love for Stern's Austin Powe...
Episode 113 - Best Game Ever: WHITEWATER
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode Alan sets the record straight on the true greatest game of all time, Dennis Nordman's ...
Episode 112 - Electromechanical Designer Crash Course
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode we discuss 6 names from the EM era that you should be aware of, two from each of the B...
Episode 111 - The State of Modern Operating
Support the show and receive a link to the private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastAJ of Flip a Coin in Colorado is back to discuss the current affairs of operating brand new pi...
Episode 110 - SEGA Pinball
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode we explore the period from 1995-1999 when Gary Stern successfully convinced anoth...
Episode 109 - A Casual Look Back at 2025 w/ Megan the Watergirl
Support the show and grab a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode we are joined on the show by veteran pinball machine mover, casual on location pinball pl...
Episode 108 - Center Ramps
Support the show and get access to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis whole episode is Alex trying to describe to the listener why there has never been a good center ramp in a pinball machine, and even the ones that you ...
Episode 107 - Holiday Special
Support the show and get access to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastFor the first and probably only time, we bring you the Wedgehead Podcast Holiday Special! So, grab ...
Episode 106 - Ballsaves: Pinball's Biggest Mistake!
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis week's episode has us exploring the history of the ball save in pinball, why it has grown ...
Bonus Episode - Best Game Ever: JAWS
Support the show, and join our discord by donating to: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastFormer guest of the show, and video game designer Paul Michael Melio gave us this bonus episode to share on...
Episode 105 - Pinball Hindsight Awards 1991
Support the show and receive a link to our private discord automatically: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe are back once again, looking back through the decades with the mighty power of Hindsi...
Episode 104 - John Borg: The Man Who Doesn't F*&k Around
Support the show and get access to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe are discussing the pinball career of legendary pinball designer and mechanical engineer, John Borg.&nbs...
Episode 103 - Die on this Hill: Shaq Attaq
Support the show and get a link to our private discord channel: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastOur friend Paul, a video game designer and aspiring pinball designer joins us on the show to defen...
Episode 102 - Community Building
Support the show and get a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe're back with a nice culmination episode that pieces together a lot of bits and themes from the l...
Episode 101 - Best Game Ever: NASCAR
Support the show and get a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWaterboy 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 word...
REDACTED Episode
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.
Episode 99 - Much Ado About Toppers
Support the show and receive a link to the private discord chat: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastAlex is bringing y'all a very special episode of the show all about one of the dumbest and yet mo...
Episode 98 - Evolution of the Flipper
Support the show & receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode is all about the pinball's most important mech, the flipper. We cover the histor...
Episode 97 - The Music of Chris Granner w/ Chris Granner
Support the show & receive a link to our private discord channel to chat with us and other supporters of the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this very special episode of the show, l...
Episode 96 - Pinball Composer w/ Chris Granner
Support the show & receive a link to the private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastA very special interview with LEGENDARY pinball composer and sound designer Chris Granner. Chris wor...
