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
74 episodes
Episode 74 - The Mind of Scott Danesi
Support the show & receive a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode, we are joined on the show by the patron saint of making pinball challenging ...
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Episode 73 - Gottlieb System 3: The End of an Empire
Support the show: https:/ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode we discuss the final chapter of Gottlieb as a pinball manufacturer. The prevailing narrative around these gam...
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Episode 72 - Operator Spotlight: Astoria Pinball
Support the show: https:/ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastWe 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 Co...
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Episode 72
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Episode 71 - Women's Competitive Pinball
Support the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIFPA director, and former women's world champion Zoe Vrabel is back on the show to discuss the past, present, and future of women'...
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Episode 70 - Legendary Women of the Pinball Industry
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn 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 leg...
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Episode 70
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Episode 69 - Die on this Hill: High Roller Casino
Support the show: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis 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,...
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Episode 68 - Band Pins
Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis 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, an...
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Episode 67 - Pinball Seller's Guide
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...
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Episode 66 - Pinball Maintenance
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...
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Episode 65 - Die on this Hill: Wheel of Fortune
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 Fort...
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Episode 64 - Pinball Buyer's Guide
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 l...
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Episode 63 - The Pinball Map
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
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Episode 62 - Fan Layouts
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 a...
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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 61
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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 60
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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 59
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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 55
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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 54
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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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