Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

Booking Overview

A niche hobby interview show focused on pinball history, game design, location play, collecting, and the people behind notable machines, with recurring guests including industry veterans and knowledgeable collectors. Credible pitches include pinball designers, composers, historians, collectors, restorers, and arcade-industry professionals with specialized expertise; booking difficulty is likely medium because niche authority matters more than broad celebrity, though prominent industry figures can appear.

Metrics

Episodes: 130

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 5.2k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

alanwedgehead@gmail.com

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Host

Alan - One of the two people behind the Wedgehead Pinball Podcast, discussing pinball topics weekly with a focus on location play from a pinball bar in Portland, Oregon.

Alex - One of the two people behind the Wedgehead Pinball Podcast, discussing pinball topics weekly with a focus on location play from a pinball bar in Portland, Oregon.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Deep subject-matter expertise in pinball, such as professional design or composition credits, longstanding collecting experience, restoration knowledge, or specialized historical research.

Required Achievements:

Credits on notable pinball or video-game titles, Longstanding expertise as a collector or restorer, Specialized historical research or archival documentation

Recent Guest Discussions

Dan Forden - His Career, Pinball Music, And Compositions For Notable Pinball And Video-game Titles.

Dan Forden - His Work On Classic Williams And Bally Pinball Machines And His Career In The Pinball And Video-game Industries.

Tom Rader - Williams Single-player Electromechanical Pinball Machines, Collectors’ History, Designers, Artists, And Archival Documentation.

Recent Topics

Gaming, Pinball, Arcade Games, Game Design, Game Collecting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

Episode 127 - The Music of Dan Forden w/ Dan Forden

September 21, 2026

Support the show and get a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this second episode with legendary pinball sound designer Dan Forden, we actually go through his career and listen to the music that he composed and created for many well known and iconic pinball machines. This is a good one!Support the show

Episode 126 - Pinball Composer II w/ Dan Forden

September 07, 2026

Support the show and receive a link to our private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastIn this episode I speak with Dan Forden, another legend of both the videogame and pinball industry. Whilst undoubtably known best for the Motral Kombat video game series, he also worked on a ton of pinball machines at Williams/Bally during the late 80s-90s golden era including: Bad Cats, Black Knight 2000, Mousin Around, Roller Games, Bride of Pinbot, Getaway: High Speed 2, Star Trek: Next Generation, The Sh...

Episode 125 - Reverse Wedgeheads

August 24, 2026

Support the show and receive a link to the private discord: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastOn this episode of the show we are joined by an old school pinball collector and international man of mystery, Tom Rader, who came onto the show to discuss his favorite pinball era of all time: Williams single player EM machines with their unusual looking upside down pear shaped heads. Most collectors now just refer to them as the "Reverse Wedgeheads" and we discuss all of them in this episode, al...

Publicly listed emails

alanwedgehead@gmail.com

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