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Episode 12: The Classic Pinball Podcast - Houston Arcade Expo with Keith Christensen

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday46 min listenBy George
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George interviews Keith Christensen prior to the start of the Houston Arcade Expo. Keith tells the audience about the history and what to expect over the 2 days of the show. They also talk about...

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Highlights

  • Keith Christensen started the Houston Arcade Expo in 2002 with a buddy named Callan as an excuse to have a party at a club with games.
  • Keith owns approximately 80 pinball games in his collection, with about 43 set up in his home game room and 35 video games, plus about 20 at his office.
  • Keith's collecting goal is to acquire all Williams games, and he is only 10 away from completing the set, focusing on B-titles like Road Show and No Fear.
  • Keith has been collecting pinball games since 1996.
  • Houston has experienced severe flooding events (Harvey mentioned) that decimated collector warehouses in the area.
  • The Houston Arcade Expo main venue is approximately 20,000+ square feet.
  • Jurassic Park (Pro) pinball raffle proceeds go to the Ocean Conservancy charity.
  • The Lone Star Pinball Museum in Hockley, Texas is owned by Dan Ferguson and specializes in EM and pre-war pinball games.
  • The Interplanetary Knockout women's tournament will be the first time it is held at the Houston Arcade Expo.

Notable quotes

“I started the Expo back in 2002 with a buddy of mine, Callan. And it was basically an excuse to have a party at a club, bring a bunch of games and have a show.”
Keith Christensen
“But at the essence, it still remains that, even though now I'm kind of solo running it with a bunch of awesome people helping out... it still remains a good arcade party.”
Keith Christensen
“We built a 2,700 square foot game room. So I have 43 pinballs set up here at the house and about 35 vids set up. And then I also have a little office and we made a little movie room and a little kitchen, something like that.”
Keith Christensen
“You could do it a hundred times and you still going to have a fail somewhere. It just inevitably happens.”
Keith Christensen
“Harvey one was bad. I mean, there's pictures out there of guys' collections, pinball collections, six foot of water.”
Keith Christensen
“The Swamp Meets is sponsored by a local Texas arcade called Quasars down in Corpus Christi.”
Keith Christensen
“They're going to have a booth in the main showroom, and they're going to be able to, I think, take some walk-ups, which is good. That's always, you know, I like that.”
Keith Christensen
“It's one of our biggest shows. We did Pintastic. I actually broke it up into three different segments, and it's my most listened to podcast.”
George

Entities

  • Deep Root· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Super Skill Shot Shooters· company
  • Titan Pinball· company
  • Houston Arcade Expo· event
  • Ocean Conservancy· organization
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Atari Matt· person
  • Brian Foytek· person
  • Callan· person
  • Clive Farrington· person
  • Dan Ferguson· person
  • Donny Gillies· person
  • Eugene Jarvis· person
  • George· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Joe Balcer· person
  • Keith Christensen· person
  • Phil· person
  • Scott Danesi· person
  • Stephen Silver· person
  • Borgard/Lockwood Lit· person/vendor
  • Game Preserve· venue
  • Lone Star Pinball Museum· venue
  • Quasars· venue

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