Silverball Chronicles (TPN) - Pinball

Want to Support the Show? Visit Our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   or pick up a tee shirt at  https://silverballswag.com/collections/silverball-chronicles The pinball industry is like a mirror to society. Pinball is not immune to scandal or terrible people. Case in point, John Trudeau. One of pinballs most creative and wacky designers, but also the worst person in pinball. Can y...

Want to Support the Show? Visit Our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   or pick up a tee shirt at  https://silverballswag.com/collections/silverball-chronicles The pinball industry does a lot to try to innovate and stimulate sales. Things like a mechanical bell, solid state boards, the wide body pinball machines, DMD screens and even stereo sound! But one of the strangest pinball mac...

Want to Support the Show? Visit Our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   or pick up a tee shirt at https://silverballswag.com/collections/silverball-chronicles   Last time we spoke about where JJP came from and the rise of Jack Guarneri in Ep 44. When we left JJP they were having financial troubles or 'needed recapitalization to get off the preorder model'.  Enter the investors with t...

Want to Support the Show? Visit Our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   or pick up a tee shirt at https://silverballswag.com/collections/silverball-chronicles   Segasa or Sega S.A. Sonic (or was it just Sonic?) Pinball was Spain's major contribution to the golden age of pinball. Its products evolved from licensed electro-mechanical arcade designs to original solid-state pinball machi...

Want to Support the Show? Visit Our  Patreon  at or pick up a tee shirt at  Silverball Swag   Check out  Flip N Out Pinball for all your pinball needs! Topic begins at 12:28   Episode Summary:   Pinball has had a dramatic change since the end of the modern DMD era at Stern. The designers we all know and love from the 80s and 90s have begun to retire, slow down, or leave the industry. A new wave of...

Want to Support the Show? Visit Our Patreon at or pick up a tee shirt at Silverball Swag   Check out Flip N Out Pinball for all your pinball needs!   Topic begins at 7:35   Episode Summary:   In the third part of our Pinball Downunder series, we look at Homepin.   Homepin was established in 2013 and was born from the hobby business of Mike Kalinowski. It seems like a really smart idea to set up ma...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   or pick up a t-shirt at https://silverballswag.com/collections/silverball-chronicles   Episode Begins at 16:52   Episode Summary:   Ron and Dave Return to the Gottliebs, one of the best-known names in pinball. But did you know about Michael Gottlieb and the company he started with his father Alvin? Let's chat abo...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at  https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Begins at 10:10     Episode Summary:   Join us this month where Dave says 'Swing on Over' like 40 times in the preamble, Ron spoils JJPs next game with the help of Jersey Jack himself, reviews of 70s style, Jack's business building and evolving tha...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Begins at 18:08   Episode Summary: Have you ever heard the saying, "pinball is hard?" Well, the team at Barrels of Fun hasn't, and they decided to smash on ahead and impress pretty much everyone. It's been over 24 months since they launched their co...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode begins at 13:15    Episode Summary:    Do you find yourself craving? Do you ever hanker for a special little thing? Well, we have had multiple people email and inquire about Hankin, you might say they had a craving for another Australian-based episo...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:    The Gottlieb Family is an important part of pinball. David Gottlieb and Alvin Gottlieb made pinball what it is today. David's vision and spirit and Alvin's excitement and drive built the Gottlieb name into what it is today, and it will a...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:  Manufacturing is hard. Pinball is hard, and when you're starting on the other side of the world from all the suppliers and skilled labour, it's that much harder. COVID-19 did not help Haggis Pinball is the latest cautionary tale of a pinba...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:  Multimorphic, Inc. manufactures the P3 Pinball Platform, a modern, physical-digital, multi-game pinball machine, as well as pinball machine control system products, such as the P-ROC and P3-ROC. Since 2009, Gerry Stellenberg and his crack...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Topic Begins at 12:12   Episode Summary:  Bingo just isn't the game you can play at a country fair or a sketchy gambling establishment. Bingo is also the big brother to today's modern pinball. You'll remember we spoke about Bingo machines and the issues the...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:  Roger Sharpe is hailed as the Man Who Saved the Game from our previous episode, but he did so much more! Roger has been involved in the birth of tournaments, the second rise of licensing, and mainstream journalism. He also has had a great...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:    We've fought long and hard to avoid giving Roger Sharpe yet another ego-building podcast to spin his narrative and propaganda… but, here we are. Roger wrote about pinball. Played pinball. Promoted and evangelized pinball. Roger has been...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:  Last month, we learned about Capcom, the video game company that wanted to get into the pinball industry and ride the wave of popularity, just like Data East! It didn't go well.  Even after Capcom disappeared, the lure of what could have b...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Topic starts at 8:27   Episode Summary: Capcom was a video game company that wanted to get into the pinball industry and ride a wave of popularity, just like Data East! Sadly, they were a victim of the wrong place, wrong time. Add to that a bunch of mismana...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Topic starts at 9:10   Episode Summary: Joe Balcer is a name that some people know and some people don't. Joe spent his early beginnings at Sega Pinball, then Stern Pinball, and he basically helped start Jersey Jack Pinball. He then started up another compa...

Silverball Chronicles BONUS: Our Top Pins  Join Ron and Dave in this Bonus Silverball Chronicles episode as they choose their favourite pinball machines made by featured pinball designers from previous episodes!  https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nw2bie/Bonus_Episode_-_Our_Top_Pins9niuz.mp3

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary: John Borg is known for his distinctive style and approach to designing pinball machines.  His design philosophy is as distinct as a fingerprint. 'Borgie' focuses on creating layouts that offer smooth flow and satisfying shots. He aims to de...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Episode Summary:  Gottlieb is viewed as the romantic electro-mechanical giant to many. The pinball machine atop the coin-op pedestal for all other manufacturers to reach for… but it was its god-tier status in the 1960s and early 1970s that would ultimately...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Topic Starts at 9:10   Episode Summary:  A Centenarian is someone linked to longevity, someone who has seen it all come and go, then be reinvented again. Wayne Neyens is pinball's Centenarian; he was there at the beginning, and he was there when it ended… a...

Want to Support the Show? Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/silverballchronicles   Or pick up a tee shirt at https://tinyurl.com/kz5xt4hc   Topic starts at 10:50   Episode Summary: What can you say about Keith P Johnson? He has 4 of the top pinball machines in the Pinball Awards' Hall of Fame. He coded some of the most revered and most panned pinball codes in our hobby. In addition, Keith was o...

  T opic Starts at 11:11    Episode Summary: It's time to revisit our 'Pinball Is Dying' series. This ongoing series is made to depress and to delight. What do we mean by that? Well, the pinball industry and the hobby around it has always been fragile. It has ups and downs which during its history has swung violently. Brilliant minds have come and gone. Many have been crushed by the emotional weig...