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Episode 413: The Pinball Profile Top Ten Most Intriguing People of 2024
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago19 min listen
Who made this year's list? Hear their stories here.
Highlights
- Rob Burke celebrated the 40th anniversary of Pinball Expo in 2024, with the biggest event yet featuring more square footage of machines and vendors than ever before
- Penny Epstein and her team (Andy Bagwell, Kevin Martin, Josh Sharp) brought back Papa World Pinball Championships in 2024 for the first time in seven years
- Raymond Davidson won Papa 21 in 2024, his third pinball major victory overall with eight top-four finishes
- Danielle Peck won all three women's tournaments she competed in during 2024, including Texas Two-Step and IFPA Women's World Championship
- Tom Graff's Fox Cities pinball stream has achieved Twitch partner status
- Abe Flips successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign for his full-length video 'Mastering Pinball' with participation from two-time world champion Johannes Ostermeyer and Scott Denisey
- Turner Pinball revamped Ninja Eclipse after 2023 concerns and sold out all limited-production units in 2024
- Stern Pinball continues to be the industry leader in sales and production as of 2024
- There are now five pinball majors each year: IFPA Open at Indisc, European Pinball Championships, IFPA World Championships, Papa World Championships, and Pinberg
- Christina Capra wrote an award-winning screenplay called 'Poster Girl' about women factory workers in WWII and directed a documentary called 'Lived in Bodies'
Notable quotes
“40 straight years...pinball has been the focus of a person who wanted to show it off in all its glory, even during the pandemic”
“Not Nick. Nick always gave up his time TDing, scorekeeping, helping behind the desk. Whatever it took to make pinball more fun for others.”
“How do you make a masterpiece better? Raymond found a way on Metallica Remastered”
“She won all three. The first in Wellington, New Zealand, then the two in the United States.”
“I kept going back to it over and over and over. I wasn't alone because you could see the same volume of gameplay at Pinball Expo.”
“The pinball media offers information, informed insight, and opinions shared by a variety of people interested in all things pinball.”
“What this says is that the companies realize that the pinball media offers information, informed insight, and opinions shared by a variety of people interested in all things pinball. That being said, it's best to include the pinball media rather than exclude them.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Turner Pinball· company
- IFPA World Championships· event
- Papa 21· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Pinberg· event
- Kineticist· organization
- The Pinball News· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Abe Flips· person
- Christina Capra· person
- Danielle Peck· person
- Nick Shako· person
- Penny Epstein· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Tom Graff· person
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