Competition was raging at Another Castle Arcade: Bremerton on the 21st for the latest Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show Satellite tournament! We had over 40 people player last night who played for over $650 of show weekend passes and tournament entry packages.

It came down to a tie breaker after 8 rounds between Donovan Haga and Andrew McCann on Doggie Soccer to win the event and the plaque, Donovan came out on top! Sarah Bay, Ryan Slanicka, Jennifer Bremerton and Dickie Hornaman were the other 4 winners of the night, with Jennifer taking the top rookie prize. Kudos to our TD's for running a great event until late in the evening, thanks Lonnie!

Come join us for our next satellite event at Admiral Pub West Seattle, NWPAS Satellite 2024: Armada Collision. THURSDAY APRIL 25th 7:30PM Start time, registration at 7:00PM.

Full results:
https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/140307/standings
https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=75204

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One weekend, once a year, local pinball and arcade collectors get together and build a massive arcade for the public to play. And we need your help to make it happen! The show is non-profit, totally run by volunteers, and all the games are volunteered by the local collector community.
We need games! The games list is starting to fill out, but we really need alot more people to volunteer to bring games. We need your help! Plus we have incentives like having the show pick up your games, getting free passes for you and your family or friends, and more!

Incentives for self-transported games:
1-3 Machines = one weekend pass per game, five $1 prize draw tickets.
4-6 Machines = one weekend pass per game to a max of 5, ten $1 prize draw tickets.
7+ Machines = up to five weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets

Incentives for games that the show transports:
3-5 Machines (3 minimum) = one weekend pass, five $1 prize draw tickets.
6-8 Machines = two weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets.
9-11 Machines = three weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets
12+ Machines = up to five weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets

Please consider getting involved and bringing games, let's put on a fun event for all of us and the larger community.

Current game list:
https://www.nwpinballshow.com/games

Volunteer your games here:
https://www.volunteer.nwpinballshow.com

Thanks!!!!!

The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show satellite took over Admiral Pub West Seattle last night for the NWPAS Satellite 2024: Armada Collision event! We had just shy of 40 people player last night who played for over $650 of show weekend passes and tournament entry packages. It came down to a tie breaker after 5 group matchplay rounds to decide the top 8 finalist. Chris Borgstadt took the win and the winner plaque for this event! Vincenzo Sprezzatura took 2nd, Matt Strzelecki 3rd, Scott Helgason 4th and SPECIAL Chris Chinn 5th for the last tournament entry package.

Kudos to our TD's for running a great event until late in the evening, thanks Matty PinPin!

Come join us for our next satellite event at Add-A-Ball, for a special version of the Babes in Pinland, the NWPAS Satellite 2024: Babes in Pinland Special THURSDAY May 2nd 8:00PM Start time.

Full results:

https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/140546

https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=75205

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The final 2024 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show 11x17 poster with all the sponsors. Poster artwork and design by killer pinball artist Jonny Crap (Jurassic Park & Labyrinth). We are happy to welcome our new sponsors this year: Spooky Pinball LLC, Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum, and The Republic Bottleshop! Also big thanks to our returning sponsors Marco Specialties, Seattle Pinball Museum, The Triple Knock, Waterland Arcade, CRAVE 80s Arcade Bar, GoodMedizen Acupuncture and Herbs, 8-bit Arcade, and Shorty's Coney Island! Our sponsors all rock and you should support their businesses. You will soon see thousands of these posters on the streets of Seattle and other Northwest cities and they will be available for sale at the merch booth during the show. Tickets on sale for the June 7-9 convention: https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets
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We still need more games for the show and could really use your help getting there! Also these are the upcoming meetings and repair parties:

Sunday, May 5th, 12pm-2pm: Show Volunteer Meeting in Burien!
This will be the last meeting before the show! Get the latest news as we finalize details and see what areas of the show still need help and work. We will have posters and flyers to distribute as well as free pizza! Address: Roundtable Pizza, 15730 1st Ave S, Burien, WA 98148.

Saturday, May 11th, 12-5pm: Repair Party at the Northwest Pinball Collective!
Bring your games, monitors and boards you need help with or want to work on to the repair party. No projects? No worries! Come help others, sit in as others test and fix games and learn and chat with other collectors. If you know of a specific game or part you need help with, if you let us know ahead of time, we can try to bring the right parts and testing equipment (otherwise, your options for help may be more limited). Address: 1120 N 97th St, Seattle WA 98103.

We will post in depth profiles on all of our special guests soon, as well as the speaker/seminar schedule. But here's who we know will be here:

->Brian Eddy! Designer for Medieval Madness, Venom, Stranger Things and other great games.

->Johnny Crap! Pinball artist for Jurassic Park, Labyrinth, the homebrew 8 Ball Beyond and designer of this year's poster.

->Dwight Sullivan! Programmer for Star Trek Next Generation, T2, Venom, the Mandalorian and dozens of other Williams and Stern games.

->David van Es! CEO of the new pinball company Barrels of Fun that just produced the new Labyrinth Game.

->Warren Davis! Creator the the legendary Q*Bert arcade game and a rare laserdisc game called Us vs. Them.

->Jerry Thompson! Jerry has done sound on over 20 Stern pinball games, including Jaws, Venom, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, and Deadpool.

Since we will have three of the people that worked on Venom and two of the people that worked on Labyrinth at the show, you can guess what some of the seminars will likely be covering

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As most of you know, the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show is a 100% volunteer run, non-profit event! Volunteers get free passes and other perks and there is a huge, fun community behind this show. As a non-profit, each year we give money to different causes.

This year we are giving $5,000 to Project Pinball, an organization that brings pinball and fun to Children’s hospitals! Project Pinball is hosting a raffle for a Jungle King pinball machine (donated by James Edes) to help raise an additional $5,000 so we can place a new pinball game in a local hospital! Project Pinball will be at the show with the game in their booth and at the end of the show the lucky winner takes it home. Support a good cause and maybe win a game!

Enter today:
https://projectpinball.rallyup.com/jungle-queen-pinball-machine-raffle-nw-pinballandarcadeshow/Campaign/Details

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Updated special guests at this year’s show:

->Brian Eddy - Designer for Medieval Madness, Venom, Stranger Things and other great games!

->Jonathan Bergeron (AKA Johnny Crap) - Pinball artist for Jurassic Park, Labyrinth, the homebrew 8 Ball Beyond and designer of this year's poster!

->Dwight Sullivan - Programmer for Star Trek Next Generation, T2, Venom, the Mandalorian and dozens of other Williams and Stern games!

->David van Es - CEO of the new pinball company Barrels of Fun that just produced the new Labyrinth Game!

->Warren Davis - Creator the the legendary Q*Bert arcade game and a rare laserdisc game called Us vs. Them!

->Jerry Thompson - Jerry has done sound on over 20 Stern pinball games, including Jaws, Venom, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, and Deadpool!

->Chase Nunes - Host of Youtube & Twitch’s GeekGamerTV and host of our live stage!

->Mike Vinikour - Mike has designed rules for James Bond 007 and Stranger Things, and worked on rules or lighting for Stern games like Foo Fighters, Rush, Batman, Kiss, The Mandalorian, Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool!

->Butch Peel - Butch has been involved in the making of Pulp Fiction, Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit, Pirates of the Caribbean and Cactus Canyon Remake!

Live on the GeekGamerTV Stage (this likely will be updated):

Friday, June 7th:

2:00pm 3:00pm Victor Tan: “Mechanical and Electronics Engineer Divide and Conquer - Break the Problem Down with First Principles”

3:30pm 4:30pm Victor Tan: “Mechanical and Electronics Engineer The Power of 2 - The Marriage between Software and Hardware”

5:00pm 6:00pm Matthew Tally (Lynn's Arcade) & Imoto Harney (MARCO Pinball): “Introduction to Pinball Repair and Maintenance”

7:00pm 8:00pm Chase Nunes from GeekGamer TV: “Play Pinball & Win Prizes with GeekGamer TV!”

Saturday, June 8th:

11:00am 12:00pm FAST Pinball's Aaron Davis and Dave Beecher: “Making Pinball, Making Friends - Meet homebrew pinball makers and the friends they've made along the way!”

12:30pm 1:30pm Dwight Sullivan, Brian Eddy and Jerry Thompson: “Making Stern's Venom Pinball”

2:00pm 3:00pm Warren Davis, Game Creator (Q*Bert) and Author Us vs Them: “Creating a Laserdisc Arcade Game in the 80s”

3:30pm 4:30pm Brian Eddy, Pinball Designer: “Remembering the Willams/Bally Days”

5:00pm 6:00pm David Van Es, Johnny Crap & FAST Pinball: “Concept, Art and Hardware: Making the new Labyrinth Pinball”

6:30pm 7:30pm Butch Peel from Chicago Gaming: “Manual Labor: Creating Useful Documentation”

We are pleased to announce:

There will be up to 20 John Wick games on freeplay for the 3,500+ crowd at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show June 7-9 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center! And John Wick designer Elliot Eismin will be doing a talk on the GeekGamerTV stage, which will also be live streaming. This will be the first major show appearance of John Wick and it's designer. The Northwest is home to the two cities with more pinball games per capita on location than anywhere else in the world. The Northwest is also home to dozens of barcades, Next Level - the best arcade in the world, many of the top IFPA ranked players, we have one of the the largest competitive pinball scenes in the world, and a mammoth collector community. Our show is non-profit and run by over 150 volunteers. We love pinball and are passionate about it, we invite you to come play!!!

Other guests at NWPAS24 include:

-Brian Eddy - Designer for Medieval Madness, Venom, Stranger Things and many other great games!
-Jonathan Bergeron (AKA Johnny Crap) - Pinball artist for Jurassic Park, Labyrinth, the homebrew 8 Ball Beyond and designer of this year's poster!
-Dwight Sullivan - Programmer for Star Trek Next Generation, T2, Venom, the Mandalorian and dozens of other Williams and Stern games!
-David Van Es - CEO of the new pinball company Barrels of Fun that just produced the new Labyrinth Game!
-Chase Nunes - Host of Youtube & Twitch’s GeekGamerTV and host of our live stage!
-Mike Vinikour - Mike has designed rules for James Bond 007 and Stranger Things, and worked on a bunch of Stern games!
-Butch Peel - Butch has been involved in the making of Pulp Fiction, Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit, Pirates of the Caribbean and Cactus Canyon Remake!
-Warren Davis - Creator the the legendary Q*Bert arcade game and a rare laserdisc game called Us vs. Them!
-Jerry Thompson - Jerry has done sound on over 20 Stern pinball games, including Jaws, Venom, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, and Deadpool!

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Northwest Pinball Collective is hosting the last repair party before the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show today with guest tech experts Victor "Dumbass" Tan & Bill Witzel. 1120 N 97th St, Seattle WA 98103 from 12-5pm.

These repair parties are a great way to get your games ready before volunteering them for this June's show. They are great way to learn about fixing games, make friends, network with other collectors, and learn more about the show. Bring your pins, vids, boards, monitors or whatever you need help with. Owen that works on EM pins will also be helping out today.

Order your parts and new Stern games from Marco before the show and save on shipping by picking them up there!

"We'll be taking #NWPAS24 orders through May 29. Give us a call at (803) 957-5500 or email [email protected] & we'll hook you up with some Pinball parts."

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The repair party at the Northwest Pinball Collective on Saturday went well, we fixed quite a few problems on a number of games that will be at the show in a few weeks!

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We are happy to feature the debut of Stern Pinball's John Wick at our show! We will have 20 new John Wicks for you to play all weekend long, along with the game's designer Elliot Eismin and artist Randy Martinez!

The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show will have over 400 games on free play, the weekend of June 7-9, at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center. Tickets on sale now!

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This will be the line up for the Marco/Next Level booth at the show, 37 new Sterns in all!

10x John Wick Pros
10x John Wick Premiums
Jaws - Pro
Jaws - Premium
Venom - Pro
Venom - Premium
Foo Fighters Pro
Foo Fighters Premium
007 James Bond Pro
007 James Bond Premium
Jurassic Park Pro
Jurassic Park Premium
Star Wars Pro
Star Wars Premium
Avengers AIQ Premium
Deadpool Premium
Elvira's House of Horrors Premium
Godzilla Pro
Stranger Things Pro

A Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show satellite tournament took place at 4Bs in Seattle on Sunday night. For the NWPAS Satellite 2024: 4Bs Square-Off event there was some serious competition with 54 "squaring off" for up to $1,000 of prizes with show weekend passes and tournament entry package for the top 7 players!

After 8 impressive group knockout rounds the top 3 players were all tied up, a final tie breaking game was held on Pulp Fiction with Jon Salzman taking the win, the plaque and a weekend pass to the show. James Frost-Winn took the 2nd weekend with Leslie Ruckman getting another tournament entry package!
Ryan O'Donnell, Neil Kubath, Sergey Posrednikov and Matthew Greene got the 4 other tournament packages.

Come join us for our next satellite event at Georgetown Pizza and Arcade, the NWPAS Satellite 2024: Georgetown Flip-Offs THURSDAY May 16th 7:30PM Start time.

Full results:
https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/142974/standings
https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=75200
1,Jon Salzman,26374
2,James Frost-Winn,35952
3,Leslie Ruckman,47411
5,Ryan Odonnell CA,47679
5,Neil Kubath,42483
5,Sergey Posrednikov,9141
8,John Robinson WA,21384
8,Craig Garrett,115149
8,Sagel Frazier,6837
10,Alex Singleterry,24660
12,Donovan Haga,83334
12,Vincent Sperrazza,47285
12,Dave Stewart,54
12,Ashley Weaver,49083
16,Chris Chinn,29083
16,Nate Carter,67248
16,Vanessa Ish,52614
18,Matthew Greene,83183
21,Steph Hanlon,40884
21,Maka Honig,3238
21,Jason Roselander,84147
21,Alex Skinner,6835
21,Danielle Wilcox,51575
21,Erin Malysa,53444
27,Joseph Salender,8251
27,Misha Alexeeff,91871
27,Sean Irby,49529
27,Danny Linh,95725
27,Jaran jones,70948
33,Heather Loudon,9142
33,Nick Lindsay,73742
33,Lupe Bryan,60135
33,Mandy Woodard,85305
33,Matthew Roggenkamp,85306
33,Mason Dunbar,98062
33,Kathleen Rush,95646
39,Daron Coull,59556
39,Zofia Gil,71046
39,Dwayne Collins,33062
39,Val Gaifoulline,83777
39,Casey Benton,68118
42,Michael B Bailey,43275
42,Dina Robinson,107958
46,Robbie Finnigan,36802
46,Andrew Stauffer,107583
46,Matt Ramey,109957
46,Brooke Lukens,23533
46,Samantha Meyers,64878
46,Chaynee Young,83097
51,Jennifer Bremerton,96635
51,Gocelyn Morgado,90010
51,Sarah Munden,91870
51,Michael Serna,92358
54,MK Walker,63769

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As in past years, Marco and Next Level will be offering discounted pricing on new Stern games at the show. Games usually get about 500 plays in their booth for the 3 days, then you take it home. These do go towards volunteering a game for the show, so you also get a free weekend pass if you buy one.

It's a great way to pick up a new game at a discounted price and not to have to deal with shipping! If you are interested, direct message me for more info or contact Marco directly at: [email protected] or 1-803-957-5500

Here are the games that will be available, 37 in all, there will be both pros and premiums of many of the the games:

10x John Wick Pro
10x John Wick Premium
Jaws - Pro/Premium
Venom - Pro/Premium
Foo Fighters Pro/Premium
007 James Bond Pro/Premium
Jurassic Park Pro/Premium
Star Wars Pro/Premium
Avengers AIQ Premium
Deadpool Premium
Elvira's House of Horrors Premium
Godzilla Pro
Stranger Things Pro

Around 350. Two large collections haven't been listed yet and a lot of people wait until the last minute. I don't know if we will hit last year's 450 games, but we should easily break our 400 goal.

The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show satellite took place at Georgetown Pizza and Arcade May 16 for the NWPAS Satellite 2024: Georgetown Flip-Offs event! There was some serious competition with 49 players playing at GPA on Thursday for up to $1,000 of prizes with show weekend passes and tournament entry package for the top 7 players! After 9 impressive group knockout rounds Vincent Michael Sperrazza took the win and the plaque for the night! David Johnston came 2nd and took the 2nd weekend pass. Matt Ramey, Matthew Harjo, Bryan Eastman, Nic Crowson and Chase Martin took home a tournament prize package!

Full results:
https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/143455/standings
https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=75210
1,Vincent Sperrazza,47285
2,David Johnston US,60588
4,Matt Ramey,109957
4,Matthew Harjo,87762
4,Bryan Eastman,44230
6,Nic Crowson,31961
7,Chris Chinn,29083
7,Leslie Ruckman,47411
10,Jon Shaiman,50869
10,Kyle Klages,43731
10,Tom Walsh WA,71034
10,Jared Bayliss,73752
15,Michael Ulmen,67966
15,Heather Loudon,9142
15,Jesse Labbe,49364
15,Ashley Weaver,49083
15,Chase Martin,26267
15,Jaran Jones,70948
22,Dave Stewart,54
22,Jennifer Bremerton,96635
22,Scott Kelly,86194
22,Danielle Crowson,31959
22,Cross Kirchmeier,65538
22,Matthew Greene,83183
22,MK Walker,63769
30,Guadalupe Bryan,60135
30,Alex Singleterry,24660
30,Steph Hanlon,40884
30,Jon S Bell,107549
30,Jon Salzman,26374
30,Sarah Munden,91870
30,Erin Malysa,53444
30,Danielle Wilcox,51575
30,Matt Korsmoe,109114
38,Julie Gray,1380
38,Dawnda Durbin,55991
38,Hannah Hatch,17104
38,Zolaire Arcade,77731
38,Kiki V,102910
38,Ben Simmons,92246
38,John Garnett,32819
38,Gus Voss,89126
46,Andrew Hopper,79788
46,Jess Kirchmeier,68448
46,Nick Lindsay,73742
46,Nick Wold,48830
46,Amanda Kotchon,20535
46,Misha Alexeeff,91871
46,Dina Robinson,107958

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The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show satellite tour continued last night at CRAVE 80s Arcade Bar for: the NWPAS Satellite 2024: Battle Royale event!

There were quite a lot of events going on in the larger Seattle area yesterday, but 22 players came to fight for up to $600 of prizes at the event. After 8 group knockout rounds local LEGEND Sagel Frazier took the win and the plaque for the night! Eden Stamm came all the way from Vancouver, Canada and finished 2nd and took the 2nd weekend pass. Dave Stewart and Arial Bedolla took home a tournament prize packages!

Come join us for our next satellite event at Waterland Arcade, the NWPAS Satellite 2024: Waterland Aquathon WEDNESDAY May 22nd 7:00PM Start time.

Full results:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=75211
https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/143572/standings

1,Sagel Frazier,6837
2,Eden Stamm,59
3,Dave Stewart,54
4,Armand Go,104208
4,Chris Chinn,29083
6,Ariel Bedolla,94551
7,Dion Bellay,43372
8,Lee Ford,60260
8,John McConnell,23425
10,Ramsey Sierra,19493
10,Darse Carruthers,56498
12,Mike Craft,111248
12,Christopher Daniels,95948
15,Nicholette Autio,80320
15,Todd Finco
15,Erik Rikansrud,80317
15,Johnny Hill,58686
18,Sergey Posrednikov,9141
20,Julie Milburn
20,Nadine Scarlett,96000
20,Matthew Greene,83183
20,Mason Dunbar,98062

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If you are volunteering pinball and arcade games to the show, the cut off date for registering them for show transportation is this Thursday, May 23rd! If you've already signed up your games, you may want to confirm your game list and do any updates. And thanks for volunteering your games, this show couldn't happen without local collectors, every one of you is awesome for helping share our hobby with the public!!!

https://www.volunteer.nwpinballshow.com/

Tonight's Tech Tuesday at the Northwest Pinball Collective will be devoted to cleaning the Collective's machines in preparation for loaning them to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show.

If you are free and want to lend a hand, it's from 5-9 PM at 1120 N 97th St, Seattle, WA 98103.