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Houston Arcade Expo Founder Keith Christensen - Episode 2

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Send us Fan Mail An interview with Keith Christensen of the Houston Arcade Expo

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Highlights

  • Houston Arcade Expo started in 2002 at Fitzgerald's with ~60 games
  • The event has been at the Westchase Marriott since 2017
  • The expo currently features 330+ games and still growing
  • Keith has a personal collection of approximately 107 pinball machines and 70+ arcade cabinets
  • Keith's first arcade acquisition was a Centipede in 1996, first pinball was High Speed in 1998
  • Keith intentionally does not want Houston Arcade Expo to become as large as Texas Pinball Festival
  • The event features multiple tournament formats including Space City Open, Bells & Chimes women's tournament, and Diverse Field
  • Keith founded a punk rock band called 'Loader Popcorn' with Chris Pallas and others; planning to perform 3-4 songs at the expo

Notable quotes

“I don't want to necessarily become a giant monster of the show. I like it where we can have fun, and it's a great social pinball arcade console, classic computer event where everybody kind of blends in.”
Keith Christensen
“Lost a bunch of money. Yeah. Had a blast. Didn't, whatever.”
Keith Christensen
“my love for pinball and video games and this allows me to do this stupid podcast”
Jamie Burchill
“You tell two friends and so on and so on. And it just kind of grows that way.”
Jamie Burchill
“if Pinbot 2.0 brings in a new guy, God bless him. Yeah. You know, whatever. You're right. But I'm just saying. As a purist. If you try to put that in my Pinbot. Watch out.”
Jamie Burchill
“You're in a good spot right now, and you're in a good place. Yeah, we'll keep riding it. Ride the wave until we can. Ride until he bucks you.”
Jamie/Keith
“the Houston community itself, we're really spoiled and lucky, Keith, that we have these wonderful people, great locations, and we can play pinball pretty much every day of the week”
Jamie Burchill

Entities

  • Houston Arcade Expo· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
  • Emo's· organization
  • Fitzgerald's· organization
  • Game Preserve· organization
  • Loader Popcorn· organization
  • Space City Pinball· organization
  • The Harp Twins· organization
  • Trinicom· organization
  • Wormhole Pinball· organization
  • Chris Pallas· person
  • Eric Stinson· person
  • Jamie Burchill· person
  • Jay Welch· person
  • Jerry Thompson· person
  • Keith Christensen· person
  • Mark Shields· person
  • Tim Hood· person

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