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Why Pinball Moved from Bars to Basements (Seth Davis) (Patreon)

Published:
2026-03-20 15:00:23
Imported:
2026-03

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This Week on Post Games:

Act 1: How Stern Survived the Pinball Apocalypse

Act 2: What Makes a Pinball Table Special in 2026?

Patreon Bonus: Adapting Pokémon into a Pinball Table

Act 3: The News of the Week

Guests:

Seth Davis: President and CEO, Stern Pinball

Lewis Gordon: Reporter and Critic

Closing Song: “A Musical Tale” by bermei.inazawa (Chicory: A Musical Tale)

Act 1: How Stern Survived the Pinball Apocalypse

The History of Stern Pinball (Stern Pinball)

For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over (NYTimes)

Pinball losing its ping and zing of storied past (Chicago Tribune)

No Place like Jersey: Inside the factory of the wizard of pinball (Polygon)

Pinball Expo (pinballexpo.com)

Act 2: What Makes a Pinball Table Special in 2026?

STERN PINBALL ANNOUNCES HIRING OF NEW PRESIDENT (Stern Pinball)

Jersey Jack Pinball: The Pinball of Oz (Polygon)

This Wrestlemania pinball machine is Stern’s newest, most technologically advanced table (2015) (The Verge)

The Best Pinball Machines of 2025 Ranked (Kineticist)

Pinball Top 100 (Pinside)

What is Stern Pinball's 'Insider Connected' Feature? (Liberty Games)

Patreon Bonus: Adapting Pokémon into a Pinball Table

Pokémon Pinball (Stern Pinball)

Pokémon by Stern Pinball Game Trailer (YouTube)

Pokémon by Stern Pinball Live Gameplay Premiere (YouTube)

Pokémon Pinball for Game Boy Color (Bulbapedia)

Pokémon Pinball is Finally Here and It's Not What I Expected (RetroRalph)

Act 3: News of the Week

Crimson Desert review - it's a bit like prestige Candy Crush (Eurogamer)

After K-Pop and K-Drama, Here Come K-Games (NYTimes)

Crimson Desert reviews suggest Skyrim is safe for now (Polygon)

This Week in Video Game Links

What happens when all the Pokémon fans are dead? (New piece by me at Mothership)

How Outersloth's investment fund contracts upend the status quo for indie developers (Mothership)

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse (The Verge)

Marathon is a satire (ReaderGrev)

I’ve Killed Runners (Ed Smith on Google Docs)

Paranormasight series director Ishiyama & producer Oushu speak on how The Mermaid's Curse was created. (RPGSite)

Funi Raccoon Game Is Queer, Funny, And Irish (Aftermath)

Free Game of the Week: The Ratline demo

Owlskip Games consistently publishes some of the most interesting narrative deductive games on Steam. The latest game has one hell of a pitch: "A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle." (Steam)

What Else I’m Enjoying

What Actually Happened to the Clay Behind ‘Wallace & Gromit’? (WSJ)

Against Rigour (Will Sloan)

Love in the Time of A.I. Companions (New Yorker)

Song of the Week: “A Musical Tale” by bermei.inazawa (Chicory: A Musical Tale)

Available on Bandcamp

PSA: Murder at the Birch Tree Theater Released on Steam!

In August, I interviewed musical composer, orchestrator, lyricist, conductor, and musician Mike Pettry about his first video game. Murder at the Birch Tree Theater splices Golden Idol deduction with community theater drama. The demo has been available for a while, but now you can play the full game on Steam! (Steam)

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Comments

Kormakur Gardarsson

Fantastic episode, Chris! What a fascinating deep dive into the world of pinball. I straddle the Gen-X/Elder Millennial divide and so very much grew up around pinball machines in arcades and restaurants of my youth, but they never captivated me the way video games did. Listening to you two go down the rabbit hole on the manufacturing and market for these things was a really interesting mix of the familiar and unfamiliar.

James W.

My first pinball experience was Funhouse at the bowling alley in Lee, MA. I'm sure I *saw* pinball machines before then, but that was the first one I played. What a nightmare that table was! 🤣

Goositrous

Ironically I don’t know that I have EVER played with a physical pinball machine, but I did play Pokémon Pinball (the only GBC game with a rumble pack!) a ton.

Elyse

My first pinball experience and ALL of my pinball experiences happened in Bowl America! I believe they had a Funhouse one and, I think, an Indiana Jones one. And I had absolutely no idea that there were objectives aside from flip the ball around. And so i have never really played since. So often I go into an episode thinking that I’d love to learn more about something, but it’s not something for me— only to come away from it thinking “hmmm maybe I should check this out.” Seth had such great detailed answers and really knew his history and the ins and outs of his company and pinball in general, that I’m really seeing the magic of it. I’ve already found a non-profit pinball collective near me and I’m genuinely interested!

Tikwid

Every once in a while there's a Post Games episode that comes out and I think "aw, not really my scene or something I'm interested in." And then I listen to the episode and it is absolutely fascinating every single time. What a special thing this is.

Elearin

Was not expecting a pinball episode and this is great! So glad you started this patreon because this has become my favorite podcast. I super appreciate how welcoming it is to everyone, especially as a queer pal who only got back into games in their mid 20s. Looking forward to what's to come!

Post Games

Just want to say thank y'all for the comments about giving this episode a chance. I'm grateful to have a space to make things I think people will love but would die on the vine in a traditional publishing environment.