EP18 Imoto Harney My Journey Into Pinball
Episode 18 of The Pinball Studio Podcast features Imoto Harney. We dive into the upcoming Texas Pinball Festival, talk about her involvement with the show, and how she discovered the crazy hobby of...
Highlights
- 16 homebrew games are signed up for Texas Pinball Festival 2025, a significant increase from previous years, in a completely new larger floor area
- Pinball Expo 2024 featured 40 homebrew games, with a goal of reaching 60 this year
- Marco Specialties has over 40,000 parts in their online database
- TPF Tech Day (Wednesday, Marco-sponsored) is a new initiative in 2025 for pre-show game repairs and educational teaching
- A free sound effects kit for homebrew developers was recently released, created by Dirtypool Pinball (Jeff Dodson) with community call-out recordings planned at TPF
- Emoto pinky-swore to have a homebrew game ready by Pinball Expo 2027
- Spooky Pinball is bringing Pokemon machines to Texas Pinball Festival, with Jack Danger, George Gomez, and Tanyo Klyce doing seminars and Steve Bowden/Tanyo doing gameplay walkthrough
- Emoto currently owns approximately 40 pinball games but can only fit 19 comfortably in her arcade
Notable quotes
“I've always been passionate about that ever since I saw Total Nuclear Annihilation of Total Nuclear Annihilation at Texas Pinball Festival in 2017. And it was everyone was just like crowding around that game being like, what is this?”
“I come from a indie filmmaker background... there's so much like crossover between like indie filmmaking or just filmmaking in general and then pinball making. You have like the director, which is the designer and, you know, the producers and stuff.”
“And that's where I first saw the TV screen and the camera over the playfield like I have at my arcade... I was watching like the most butter pinball gameplay ever... Keith Elwin versus Zach Sharpe.”
“Keep pinball out of the landfills. You know, his whole goal... that was, you know, his whole goal. Keep pinball out of the landfills.”
“We are not competitors. You know, we may have some crossover of the same parts and everything like that, but we all work together... the whole thing is keeping pinball alive. That's the end goal.”
Entities
- Marco Specialties· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Brian Haskell· person
- Charles Thomas· person
- Chris Hibler Pinball· person
- Emoto Harney· person
- Eugene Mosh· person
- Frank· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jeff Dodson· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Kenny Hardy· person
- Marco Mandeltort· person
- Matthew Talley· person
- Ricardo· person
- Scott Danesi· person
- Sean Palmer· person
- Sterling Martin· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Tanyo Klyce· person
- Todd Tucky· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
- Captain's Crazy Paradise· venue
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