2016 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show!

The yearly Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show features 400 games on free play, guest speakers, pinball and arcade tournaments, vendors, food & beer, a Kid's Zone, awards, tech seminars and more! Details: •400 pinball and arcade games on free play, with many rare and unique games! •Multiple pinball tournaments, including a large main tournament for World Pinball Player Ranking points and large cash prizes. Also rookie, women’s, kid’s and classic’s pinball tournaments. •Tech seminars! Learn about the inner workings of pinball and arcade games and how to repair them! •Kid’s Zone! A large area of family friendly and kid-oriented games that will provide fun, history, teaching opportunities and kid’s tournaments. •World Record High Score Attempts from top arcade and pinball players from around the United States! •Vendors, artists and cool merchandise! •Raffles and prizes, including at least one full-sized pinball or arcade game awarded to one randomly drawn attendee every day of the show! •Awards ceremony! The NW Pinball and Arcade Show is a non-profit event, part of the money raised from ticket sales goes to college scholarships for students planning on majoring in fields related to game design. The final day of the show we have a ceremony to award the scholarship, as well as trophies to tournament winners, and show awards for best restoration, best in show, etc. •Special Guest Speaker: Nolan Bushnell! We’ve been trying to get “Mr. Atari” to be a speaker at the show for years, this year it’s finally happening. We hope you are as excited about it as we are! Bushnell is an engineer and entrepreneur, he founded both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's, and was named by Newsweek Magazine one of the "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. •Special Guest Speaker: David Thiel! What do pinball games like Iron Man, Tron, Spider Man, Avatar, X-Men, Family Guy, Pirates of the Caribbean and the new Hobbit all have in common? Sound packages designed by David Thiel! He's been the master behind the music on so many great pinball and arcade games over the years and we are happy to have him speaking at this June's Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show! •More guest speakers! Since we are still in the planning stages of this June’s show, we haven’t finalized all our guest speakers. But rest assured, we have a worldwide reputation of bringing in some of the greatest personalities in the pinball and arcade industries and this year will be no exception!