Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

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Local pinball player Travis Chesney joins us on the podcast to share with us the story of the Mob, the Teamsters, and the dueling rival pinball pushers in the 1950s in our great city.  Travis went deep down the rabbit hole and wrote up a nice cliffnotes version of this history to share with us on this podcast, but if you want to know even more, check out these other references that we listed in the episode below.
Portland Expose The fictional film based upon the real events discussed in this episode, that the teamsters picketed upon it's release at the Hollywood Theatre (our historic neighbors up the street from Wedgehead).
Dark Rose: Organized Crime & Corruption in Portland by Robert C. Donnelly
Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime & Corruption in the Rose City by Phil Stanford
Standard warning: our language is as sordid as any of the tales told on this episode. Sensitive ears be warned.
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No ramps, no ball saves, no bullshit on this one. In this episode our buddy Ty Palmer comes back on the show to tell us why Eight Ball Deluxe is the best game ever.
Standard swearbear warning here, there is adult language throughout so invite the kids to listen and learn some fun new words to bring with them to school!
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Alright, in this episode we are joined once again by our good buddy Ty Palmer and jump right into the fire to try and determine the definitive answer to the age old question: Bally vs. Stern Electronics, which are actually better?
Buckle up, because this one gets everyone riled up, and adult language was used.
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In this second episode with legendary pinball sound designer Dan Forden, we actually go through his career and listen to the music that he composed and created for many well known and iconic pinball machines. This is a good one!
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In this episode I speak with Dan Forden, another legend of both the videogame and pinball industry. Whilst undoubtably known best for the Motral Kombat video game series, he also worked on a ton of pinball machines at Williams/Bally during the late 80s-90s golden era including: Bad Cats, Black Knight 2000, Mousin Around, Roller Games, Bride of Pinbot, Getaway: High Speed 2, Star Trek: Next Generation, The Shadow, No Fear, Safecracker…and a couple real obscure Brian Eddy games called Attack From Mars, and Medieval Madness!
TOPcast Interview from 2010
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