As September draws to a close, we’re officially less than a month out from Pinball Expo. The long-time pinball show (in its 39th year) is one of the annual highlights on the pinball event calendar. It takes place October 18-21 in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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This will be our first time attending the show, so we’re excited to explore all it offers.
We’re particularly excited about the seminar schedule, which, alongside the annual Pintastic New England (my hometown show), offers one of the best opportunities to learn from some of the greats in the industry.
The schedule this year looks packed, but we wanted to take a moment to highlight a few of the sessions that captured our eye. For this roundup, we’ll focus on some lesser-known (though no less important) names. We expect the manufacturer-led discussions to be fascinating as well, but they probably don’t need our help getting butts in seats.
Sessions are listed in the order they appear on the schedule.
Check out the full panel schedule for all the goods. We’re confident you’ll find a few sessions to satisfy your pinball curiosities.
And for those who can’t make it in person, the sessions will be uploaded to the Pinball News YouTube account for later viewing.
Colin is the chief pixel pusher at Kineticist. He's a lifetime gamer who became enamored with pinball after taking in a family copy of the 1979 classic Joker Poker (the EM version). Since then he's bought, sold and repaired many machines, competed in all kinds of tournaments, and contributes to This Week in Pinball, the New England Pinball League, and Pin-Masters of New England. Previously, Colin spent over a decade working in marketing for agencies and tech startups. He also started and ran a music blog, happy hour website, and wrote a regular craft beer review column for Central Track in Dallas. Once aspired to be an artsy film director.
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