No ColorDMD, they never come, which is a shame because they'd make a ton of money off our 3,000 attendees. I think people in other parts of the country don't realize how big this show is, how many collectors there are here, and how many people come. Until they visit 
As far as I know, no Invisiglass or PDI glass. Vendors hate hauling that stuff because it's so heavy, only Gene would do that every year. The vendor list is almost set, I'm hoping they let me post it in the next day or two.
People have been asking about beers and booze near the venue, this is my two cents, but I'd love more input!
1. The Swiss - Old school Tacoma bar with liquor, good beer selection, good pub grub, big space. Sometimes have bands and cover Friday and Saturday night, but even then you can drink in the front of house without paying cover.
2. The Harmon Brewery - Local craft brew chain, higher end pub food and lots of good beers.
3. Rock Wood Fired Pizza - Cheesy rock'n'roll theme on everything, crazy drinks in buckets with shovels (I saw Todd MacCulloch put down two and he was pretty drunky funny), their own microbrews, pretty decent pizza.
All three of these places usually have a bunch of people from the show in them since they are all within about 3 blocks, often some of the speakers and vendors are drinking at them. Anyone else have some hot spots downtown?
If you don't mind driving 5-10 minutes I like:
1. Eleven Eleven - Old school dive bar with killer sandwiches and a bit of a punk and metal feel to it. Strong drinks.
2. The Red Hot - Best beer selection in town for craft beers, especially smaller Northwest breweries. A bunch of good and weird fancy hot dogs. My buddies own this place, it's pretty popular.
3. The Valley - Sports bar with great food specials and strong drinks.
Godot put together a pretty thorough Google map of bars and restaurants around the area, he lives in Tacoma and I trust him on his food tastes. This is also linked off the show website: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=zj3JwNq6m6s4.k6m0Bsewip7M
3. The Rock - Wood Fire Pizza... I've never been to the one in Tacoma, but have been to 3 others. My wife and I love it. When family visits from out of state, it's often the first choice. Good beer, very good pizza and we like rock music
Didn't realize there was one in Tacoma. Most of the places you mentioned sound good either way.
Quoted from nwpinball:I think people in other parts of the country don't realize how big this show is, how many collectors there are here, and how many people come. Until they visit
Kinda disagree - I really wanted to do a west coast show this year but it just didn't work out. Highest on my list are PAGG and NW because both have great reputations and I really want to experience them. I'm confident I can be a vendor at the distant end of a plane ride because I've set up at TPF twice. Early this year (late March) I scoured airline options (via Kayak.com) trying to put something together (schedule and price) but just couldn't make it work. There just aren't that many direct DC to Seattle flights and connecting flights add enough time that I would need to burn additional vacation from the real job on both ends of the trip. Forward looking, from my optic NW's timing is better that PAGG because it kinda splits the gap between Allentown and Pintastic whereas PAGG is right after Allentown (2 shows in 2 weeks isn't going to sell well at home). I think I'll get out there some day.. I'm pulling for 2017!
Anyway, while everybody is having a great pinball weekend they should know there are plenty of us who "wish we were there"! We know you guys have a great show; I'll shop the travel earlier next year in hopes I can make it work...
-Rob
-visit me at http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or for Williams system 3-7 sound board potentiometer solutions
Quoted from rkahr:I think I'll get out there some day.. I'm pulling for 2017!
2017 will be our 10 year anniversary and planning is already rolling for it, it will be the one you want to hit!
Quoted from nwpinball:People have been asking about beers and booze near the venue, this is my two cents, but I'd love more input!
1. The Swiss - Old school Tacoma bar with liquor, good beer selection, good pub grub, big space. Sometimes have bands and cover Friday and Saturday night, but even then you can drink in the front of house without paying cover.
2. The Harmon Brewery - Local craft brew chain, higher end pub food and lots of good beers.
3. Rock Wood Fired Pizza - Cheesy rock'n'roll theme on everything, crazy drinks in buckets with shovels (I saw Todd MacCulloch put down two and he was pretty drunky funny), their own microbrews, pretty decent pizza.
All three of these places usually have a bunch of people from the show in them since they are all within about 3 blocks, often some of the speakers and vendors are drinking at them. Anyone else have some hot spots downtown?
If you don't mind driving 5-10 minutes I like:
1. Eleven Eleven - Old school dive bar with killer sandwiches and a bit of a punk and metal feel to it. Strong drinks.
2. The Red Hot - Best beer selection in town for craft beers, especially smaller Northwest breweries. A bunch of good and weird fancy hot dogs. My buddies own this place, it's pretty popular.
3. The Valley - Sports bar with great food specials and strong drinks.
Godot put together a pretty thorough Google map of bars and restaurants around the area, he lives in Tacoma and I trust him on his food tastes. This is also linked off the show website: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=zj3JwNq6m6s4.k6m0Bsewip7M
I can personally attest to Harmon Brewery as being a worthwhile nearby establishment to check out. Great beer, food, and ambiance!
http://www.harmonbrewingco.com/harmon
Also - if you're into great BBQ, I highly recommend the Warthog in nearby Fife off of I-5. You'll need to drive, but not far and well worth the effort!
Quoted from nwpinball:No ColorDMD, they never come, which is a shame because they'd make a ton of money off our 3,000 attendees. I think people in other parts of the country don't realize how big this show is, how many collectors there are here, and how many people come. Until they visit
As far as I know, no Invisiglass or PDI glass. Vendors hate hauling that stuff because it's so heavy, only Gene would do that every year. The vendor list is almost set, I'm hoping they let me post it in the next day or two.
They are always sold out so they don't care lol. They just put their free advertising on people's games who bought their product
Quoted from bigbadmiker:3. The Rock - Wood Fire Pizza... I've never been to the one in Tacoma, but have been to 3 others. My wife and I love it. When family visits from out of state, it's often the first choice. Good beer, very good pizza and we like rock music
Didn't realize there was one in Tacoma. Most of the places you mentioned sound good either way.
Ask Humph about the buckets......
Quoted from HighVoltage:Will anyone be burning/selling EPROMs? I need a Whitestar U7 Bootflash to upgrade my sound OS.
You might want to hit up Rob Anthony/Locked When Lit ahead of time, he will have a booth at the show.
Quoted from HighVoltage:Will anyone be burning/selling EPROMs? I need a Whitestar U7 Bootflash to upgrade my sound OS.
I'll try to remember to bring one of these for you. A reminder thur morning would help.
JP will be selling standard pinball glass at the show, he put up a Craigslist ad for it today, you can contact him through it if you want to preorder it:
New standard tempered pinball glass 21 x 43, $30 each or 2 for $55
New widebody tempered pinball glass 23 3/4 x 43, $38 each or 2 for $70
Also wide body for older Williams games $38 each or 2 for $70
New glass for Bally games with lift up frame 21 x41 1/2 $30 each or 2 for $55
Plusa lot of used glass free for the taking, all 3 sizes and a few off ones
seattle.craigslist.org link
Important upcoming show deadlines--
Final day for online ticket sales: This Friday!
Final day to submit self-transport games: This Saturday!
Final day to volunteer for the show online: Next Wednesday!
Final day to admit you are awesome for bringing your games, volunteering your time, and helping promote the show: Never! You all will remain awesome for a long time!!!
For those that like insanely large and slow pinball games, Seattle Pinball Museum is once again loaning the show an Atari Hercules! It's great for betting high score on!
Quoted from dasvis:Ask Humph about the buckets......
Buckets ... buckets ... buckets
3 was my limit & never again
I will be there with my son and Mom. Really looking forward to the show as it looks to be a killer line up after what was a bit of a let off last year from shows past. Love the head phone idea by the way, we'll definitely do that! Maybe I can even convince my Mom to get a Ghostbusters.
Quoted from Darscot:Anyone selling NVRAM at the show, I have a Jurassic Park and PotO that need some?
The guys from Pinball classics will be there and running some show specials.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/anypin-nvram-battery-eliminator-show-special
Hi all. I'm presenting a seminar at 12:30 Saturday. I'm the warm up act for Dwight and Nolan. 'Fun is Hard' is organized around the notion of working with startup game companies (which I have done a lot). Some of them are still in business (30 years) and some are gone. I created a 51 second trailer for the presentation
2016 is a big year for me. 10 years as a freelancer. If everything goes to plan as many as five machines (I'm counting SMVE) with David Thiel audio will be manufactured this year from four manufacturers.
I will be at NWPAS Friday and Saturday so say hello.
ddt
Quoted from daudioguy:Hi all. I'm presenting a seminar at 12:30 Saturday. I'm the warm up act for Dwight and Nolan. 'Fun is Hard' is organized around the notion of working with startup game companies (which I have done a lot). Some of them are still in business (30 years) and some are gone. I created a 51 second trailer for the presentation
» YouTube video
2016 is a big year for me. 10 years as a freelancer. If everything goes to plan as many as five machines (I'm counting SMVE) with David Thiel audio will be manufactured this year from four manufacturers.
I will be at NWPAS Friday and Saturday so say hello.
ddt
Congrats David, I love your work.
Is the seminar being streamed or being made available in another way?
Quoted from PinballRulez:Is the seminar being streamed or being made available in another way?
I asked and depending on staffing on the day it might be. I'd go to the NWPAS site at 12:00PM PST and see if they leave any breadcrumbs to the stream. Maybe someone from NWPAS will post the streaming link here in this topic (hint).
However I will have a couple of video streams of the seminar on the day and within a week after I will post an edited version of the seminar on YouTube. So watch this space, I will post a link once it is available.
ddt
Quoted from daudioguy:I asked and depending on staffing on the day it might be. I'd go to the NWPAS site at 12:00PM PST and see if they leave any breadcrumbs to the stream. Maybe someone from NWPAS will post the streaming link here in this topic (hint).
However I will have a couple of video streams of the seminar on the day and within a week after I will post an edited version of the seminar on YouTube. So watch this space, I will post a link once it is available.
ddt
For sure all the seminars will be streaming live and also uploaded to watch later. Also live streaming of the tournaments. I'll put up the links in this thread when I have them or you can go directly to our live stream page: http://nwpinballshow.com/live-stream
Here's what I think is the current vendor list for the show:
Chronos Gifts
Fast Pinball
Gambit's Cards and Hobbies
GreenCod Apps
Hills of Comics
Jeff Stern
Living Computer Museum
Lock When Lit
Marco Specialties
Moto's Glass
Nitro Amusements
NHM Media
Pinball Bulbs
Pink Gorilla Games
Quality Fun
Red Floor Arcade
Retro Revolution
Rich Brothers/Black Dog Pinball
Seattle Pinball Museum
Sweetgyrl Designs
This Old Game
A plea from the show's head of transportation Patty Okert:
We are going to have a record number of pinball games at the show this year and could really use all hands on deck at the end of the show Sunday at 3pm for an hour or two helping break down and wrap up pins to get the first load on the trucks!
Even if you just help breakdown 2 or 3 pins before you head home after the Ghostbusters Premium drawing, that would be huge a help and make things way easier for all the rest of the volunteers. Thanks!
Lets keep this thread on the first page! I'm super excited about the show this year. Over 300 pins?!?!? Hell yeah!!
There will be two pinball machines you can win through tournaments and two you can win through raffles, as well as two arcade games you can win through raffles this year. That's right, 6 people are taking home with new games as prizes from the 2016 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show!!!
The first pin you can win is this Bally Galahad pinball machine if you win the NW Pinball and Arcade Show Rookie Grand Championship Match at 2pm on Sunday! Up to four players can qualify for this one-game sudden death match, as follows:
-The Winner of Rookie Knockout Tournament (which runs from 10am-2pm Sunday)
-Up to the top three Rookie-eligible Players who qualify for the NWPAS Circuit Match Play Event's quarter finals (Sunday 10am-2pm)
A player cannot play in both the Rookie and Nitro championship matches. If a player also qualifies for both, then they will play only in the Nitro Rising Star Championship. This is a winner-take-all match. Each of the eligible players will also receive the cash prize according to their finish in the Main or Rookie tournament.
Quoted from HighVoltage:Will anyone be burning/selling EPROMs? I need a Whitestar U7 Bootflash to upgrade my sound OS.
Quoted from markmon:I'll try to remember to bring one of these for you. A reminder thur morning would help.
Reminder.... appreciate if you bring one...
Quoted from oropuro:when is registration for tourney's? and is sign up at the front area or where raffle stuff is?
I'm not super up on the tournament stuff, but Dave has all the info on the tournament webpage and tournament FB invite. Sign up is definitely at the tournament desk and not the raffle desk. The tournament area is on the left side of room right after the massive Marco booth with a huge new Stern line up.
I can't wait!!!
On a sad note it looks like Starship Fantasy isn't a vendor this year which is a bummer because I need some ramps.
Thanks everyone for your work to make this happen!
Starship Fantasy's rig broke down last week and he couldn't get it repaired in time for the show. I was hoping to score a bunch of stuff from him too. The show looks amazing, the floor was mostly set up and about half the vendor booths last night when I left. I should have taken more photos, but I was busy setting up and moving pins!
Quoted from VacFink:Will there be streaming on Twitch or replays of the seminars on YouTube like last year?
Quoted from nwpinball:For sure all the seminars will be streaming live and also uploaded to watch later. Also live streaming of the tournaments. I'll put up the links in this thread when I have them or you can go directly to our live stream page: http://nwpinballshow.com/live-stream
Yeah, live streaming of the seminars today, speakers tomorrow, tournaments, and I think Fast Pinball might be doing some live streaming stuff too.
Here's the speaker schedule:
FRIDAY, JUNE 3
2:00-2:30pm Tech Seminar: Anatomy of a Video Game / Pinball Machine
2:30-3:00pm Tech Seminar: Schematics - How to read them!
3:30-4:00pm Tech Seminar: Atari Power Brick & A/RII Testing
4:00-4:30pm Tech Seminar: WPC CPU acid damage repair
5:00-6:00pm Pinball Development with FAST Pinball
8:00-8:30pm Tech Seminar: The Basics of CRT Monitors
8:30-9:00pm Tech Seminar: WG6100 Color Vector Monitors - Deflection Board Testing & Repair
SATURDAY JUNE 4
12:30-1:30pm David Thiel - Pinball Sound Designer (Iron Man, Tron, Spider Man, X-Men, Family Guy, Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Hobbit )
2:00-3:00pm Dwight Sullivan - Pinball Software & Game Designer - "How To Design A Wizard Mode" (Dwight is currently a lead software engineer and senior game developer for Stern Pinball. He has worked to help design and develop pinball machines for over 20 years, starting in 1989 with Riverboat Gambler. He was part of the driving force behind many games, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pirates of the Caribbean, Game of Thrones, and Ghostbusters)
3:30-4:30pm Nolan Bushnell - Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's, don’t miss your rare chance to meet and hear this industry legend! 5:00-6:00pm Jersey Jack, Butch Peel & David Thiel from Jersey Jack Pinball - “Making Pinball Great Again"
Moto Glass has tons of rad pinball and arcade themed etched pint glasses. I don't think he brought enough, the Seattle crowd is hungry to buy merch, his booth is going to have barely anything left by Sunday. Love the color changing LEDs, you can see them from across the big hall.
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