Seminars and Speakers

The Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show is known for bringing in great speakers and special guests from the arcade and pinball industry. 2012's speaker line-up is still coming together, follow us on Twitter or check back here to get the details as they emerge!

2011 NWPGS Seminar Schedule

Friday 6/3

5:30 - 7:00	"The Making Of Tron Pinball" with David Thiel, John Youssi & design progress video and pics from John Borg.
7:00 - 8:30	Walter Day - Founder of Twin Galaxies and the International Video Game Hall Of Fame.
8:30 - 10:00	Todd MacCulloch - Former pro basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets) and nationally ranked pinball competitor.

Saturday 6/4

11:00 - 12:30	Jersey Jack Guarnieri "The creation of Jersey Jack Pinball and the new Wizard Of Oz pinball."
12:30 - 2:00	John Youssi - Pinball artist (Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, Whirlwind, No Good Gofers, Road Show, Tron & more)
2:00 - 3:30	Steve Wiebe - Mr. Wiebe is teaching "Donkey Kong 101" so don't be late for class!
3:30 - 5:00	John Popadiuk - Pinball designer (Cirqus Voltaire, World Cup Soccer '94, Tales Of The Arabian Nights, Theatre Of Magic & more)
5:00 - 6:30	Gary Stern - Founder of Data East Pinball and current president of Stern Pinball
6:30 - 8:00	CANCELLED Billy Mitchell is no longer able to attend and his seminar has been cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience.
8:00 - 9:30	Rich Lint - "Reproducing arcade & pinball artwork"
9:30 - 11:00	Steve Ritchie - Pinball designer (Flash, High Speed, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Spider-Man, Terminator 2 & more)

Sunday 6/5

10:00 - 11:00	Barry Shilmover - "Building a custom video pinball game"
11:00 - 12:00	Greg Freres - Pinball artist will discuss his collaboration with Dennis Nordman on the "Whoa Nellie!" custom pinball.
12:00 - 1:00	Tim Meighan - "Getting Wired: Understanding Gottlieb EM Circuit Design"
1:00 - 2:00	Lindsey Rupertus - "Bally MPU Troubleshooting & Repair"

Walter Day

Walter Day is founder of Twin Galaxies and the International Video Game Hall of Fame. Day has been score keeper of the world's gaming records, from '80s arcade games to modern Playstation 3 and XBOX games. He'sstar of the documentary "Chasing Ghosts" and was the enthusiastic referee in"The King of Kong."

Greg Freres

Greg Freres is a pinball artist who began his career at Bally in the late '70s and later did a lot of artwork for Williams. His artwork can be seen on older games like Rolling Stones, Harlem Globetrotters and Vector, and newer games like Dr. Dude, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Elvira, Revenge from Mars and Medieval Madness. Greg also designed this year's NW Pinball & Gameroom Showposter!

Jack Guarnieri

"Jersey Jack" Guarnieri has been repairing and selling pinball games since the'70s. He started pinballsales.com and has been one of the largest pinball dealers in the US. He recently formed Jersey Jack Pinball and recruitedan all-star lineup of ex-WIlliams talent with plans to start building pinball games. The first release, Wizard of Oz, is scheduled to debut in December 2011.

Rich Lint

Rich Lint is the owner and operator of ThisOldGame.com and an expert on creating reproduction artwork used in the restoration of arcade video games. His products include both replacement overlays as well as stencil kits to ensure your restoration is perfect! Rich will bespeaking on the techniques and skills needed to reproduce artwork for yourmachine.

Todd MacCulloch

Todd MacCulloch is an ex-pro basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets) and game collector who is now a nationally ranked pinball competitor. Ask MacCulloch what it was like playing against Shaq in the NBA playoffs while he kicks your butt in the pinball tournament!

Tim Meighan

Tim Meighan is a local pinball collector who excels at the restoration of electro-mechanical games. His EM line-up at the past three shows is legendary and he's always willing to share his knowledge and tips on EM repair and restoration.

Dave Okert

Dave Okert is a Northwest game collector who is the local pro at building new and custom wire harnesses for games. Dave's done reproduction Donkey Kong, '80s Williams and 720 Degrees harnesses, along with many others and created some great testing aids for today's arcade collectors. Dave will be speaking about wiring new Molex connectors into your game.

John Popadiuk

John Popadiuk is a pinball designer of games like Cirqus Voltaire, Theatre of Magic, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Star Wars: Episode 1, World Cup Soccer '94 and the recent Zizzle Pirates & Marvel mini-pinball machines.

Steve Ritchie

Steve Ritchie is a pinball & video game designer of games like Spider-Man, Star Trek: The Next Generation, High Speed, Flash and Terminator 2.

Lindsey Rupertus

Lindsey Rupertus is the proprietor of warpzonearcade.com. Lindsey has developed many test aids for troubleshooting Bally solid state pinball circuit boards. He is also always willing to lend a (cyber) hand to all who ask. Lindsey will be speaking on Bally MPU troubleshooting and repair.

Barry Shilmover

Barry Shilmover is a Seattle area game collector who built the custom virtual pinball machine we all fell in love with at the 2010 show! Come listen to Barry speak about what it takes to design, build, and test a simulator of this caliber!

Gary Stern

Gary Stern ran Data East/Sega pinball during the 1980s and eventually purchased their pinball division in 1999 and started Stern Pinball. For the last decade, Stern Pinball has been the only remaining manufacturer of pinball, they've produced many of the most popular pinball games, including The Simpsons Pinball Party, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, Indiana Jones, Iron Man, The Family Guy, Avatar, and Spider-Man.

David Thiel

David Thiel is a pinball and video game sound designer of classic video games like Q*bert & Reactor and pins like Laser War, Time Machine, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider-Man, The Rolling Stones and Tron.

Steve Wiebe

Steve Wiebe is star of the hit documentary film 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.' In the movie Wiebe waged an epic battle against Billy Mitchell for bragging rights to the world record high score on the game of Donkey Kong. Wiebe has held both the world record high scores for Donkey and Donkey Kong Jr. and will be teaching aworkshop on Donkey Kong 101.

John Youssi

John Youssi has done the artwork for some of the most loved and best selling pinballs of all time! His art can be seen on The Addams Family, Funhouse, Twilight Zone,Whirlwind, Road Show and No Good Gofers. He also did the translites on Medieval Madness and Bride Of Pinbot. John's current pinball project is Stern's Tron pinball.