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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Wedgehead Pinball Podcast
Episode 64 - Pinball Buyer's Guide
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This 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 different than buying new machines directly from a distributor.
Alex give a lot of advice for sites to use to search for games, tools and vehicles for moving games, and what to look for.
We mention in the episode a very handy pinside thread that has a list of vehicles that confirmed will fit a pinball machine in them, but here's an easier to read at a glance list from the pinball wiki
As long time listeners know, we're naughty boys on the show and sometimes curse throughout our discussions. This is your warning.