Pinball King Steve Ritchie is coming to Pintastic! Steve is preparing material for our seminar program and will be available for chatting and signing autographs. Steve has quite a line-up, including Flash, Black Knight and BK2000, High Speed and The Getaway, AC/DC, Spider-man, & Game of Thrones! Steve and his wife will also have a table in the huge Automated area were he will be hanging out selling some very cool rare stuff signed by the king himself!

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With all the excitement about the new Ghostbusters Pinball, we are proud to announce that designer John Trudeau will be at Pintastic to talk about game design, mingle at our after-party, and generally hang out all weekend! He’ll have a spot on the seminar program to discuss the work he’s done at Stern Pinball, and you can ask him about his past experience going back to Gottlieb in 1982. He’s worked with many companies and designed everything from “A-list” titles to wild experiments that never escaped the Engineering Department.

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If you did not come to Pintastic last year here are a few pictures of our seminar room with stadium seating and reclining chairs.

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Only the people who were registered for the news letter know all the people lol. Pinside and facebook will get a slow release. Two more this weekend. Also more new vendors.

And we’re also bringing in John Youssi, pinball artist extraordinaire! You've seen his art on Whitewater, Funhouse, Whirlwind, Road Show, The Machine: Bride of Pinbot, No Good Gofers, Medieval Madness, and many more! You'll be seeing his art on our 2016 T-shirt soon! We'll have John talk about life as a commercial artist, the good and the bad. Get your silver Sharpies ready!

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soon I hope.

Pintastic is proud to present!

Massachusetts native and ace programmer Lyman Sheats told us he plans to attend Pintastic this year! He does game-specific rules and features as well as foundation software used on all Stern games. He’s also one of the world’s top tournament players and proud to be from New England!

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Back again for the 2016 show my good friend Jack Guarnieri!

Jersey Jack Pinball will be represented by Jack and some of his team! If you were at Pintastic 2015, you know that the JJP team gave us some frank insights into modern operating practices and what it takes to refine a groundbreaking pinball design. There’s always something new and different at every session with this team!

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More special guests will be announced this weekend! We are not done yet.

Gerry Stellenberg of Multimorphic/P-ROC/P3 fame will be back again. Gerry is very excited to come back to New England and show off his 3 new games for the P3 platform. Two of the new games are kids games and you know their will be a ton of kids at this years show!

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..........PINTASTIC SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT..........

Jaap Nauta of Dutch Pinball has booked his flight to Boston! His rare visits to pinball shows in the USA have always been packed with revelations about the issues of producing a licensed game. We’ll have The Big Lebowski on display (In the coin taker booth) and Jaap will have a seminar with plenty of Q&A time!

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Friday and Saturday 10am to 8 pm indoor and outdoor vendors.

Both days 67 of our 70 10' by 10' indoor vendor booths are sold already.

Great!

Who is excited about meeting our great line up of guests? What will you bring for them to sign? Remember Pintastic is like no other show. The guests will be at the show thursday to Sunday hanging out talking and playing pinball with all of you. Steve Ritchie will be their Friday at 1pm to Sunday. They don't just do a seminar and leave. They hang out with everyone till late in the evning partying with all of you! I work very hard to bring these guys out let's show them some love!

Any doubts? Who you going to call!

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Special Guests Announcement!

We are very excited to have the Connecticut and Massachusetts chapters of the Ghost Busters at Pintastic 2016! They will be set up across from automated and multiple GB pinball machines. They will be in full gear and have a replica containment unit and the famous Vigo full size painting with them!

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John Youssi is ready for Pintastic 2016!

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