Pinball Spots

Talks with Robert Port. A Dunedin based collector of pinball and arcade nostalgia since the early 1990's.

Talks with Gary Walker. Importer of pinball and amusement machines, and owner of many family entertainment centres around NZ.

Mike owned Wellington based Spacetec Coin Ltd from 1986 - 2006. He talks about his time in the industry and as the distributor for Williams/Bally pinball machines in the lower North Island of NZ.

Talks with Matt Kemp. Programmer for Spooky pinball, and collector / player.

Danielle has grown up around pinball, and achieved some significant wins at major global tournaments. A strong advocate for women’s pinball, she is always welcoming and encouraging others to get involved.

Kerry Hogan lives in Auckland, NZ and has been a collector, repairer and restorer of pinballs for some 30 years. Known in the industry as "Tilt" his work is highly regarded by his customers.

Bruce Moran worked as a technician with Wellington operator Thom Houtman, and also had his own interest in pinball and arcade machines.

Talks with Tyler Dipper. Young competitive pinball player from Hawke's Bay, NZ

Talks with David Kilderry. Melbourne based film enthusiast, and pinball and arcade operator

Talks with pinball collector and enthusiast Grant Levey. He has created a unique home build machine called Battle Pin.

Gunnar chats about his involvement in the Melbourne coin op industry.

John is originally from Auckland NZ, but settled in Melbourne where he became commercially involved in collecting and operating pinball. He talks about his love for the hobby, and his vision for the future.

Hamish owns a dedicated pinball arcade space in central Wellington, New Zealand. Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe is intended to be a community pinball space for tournaments, events, as well as casual coin-drop play.

Mike is a collector and enthusiast of not only arcade and pinball, but home console gaming as well. His knowledge of coin-op and gaming history is impressive. A regular host of our annual meet-up event: Pincade.

Phil & Roger have been friends in the pinball industry for many years. Phil as an operator and distributor for Data East and Gottlieb. Roger, initially producing wall mounted “penny games” and then as an importer and distributor of video arcade machines and Williams pinball (1960’s - !991). He also owned the Fun City arcade in Auckland.

John Bell in his movie study. John was a collector of pinballs in the early 1980s before he ventured into film collecting and enthusiast cinema, which led to him opening the Time Cinema in Wellington’s Lyall Bay.

Wellingtonian Mike Burke has been involved with pinball most of his life. After a hiatus getting married and having a family, he has returned to pinball with his two sons; Ashley and Josh. Please also watch the video from 1998 below.

BJ is an avid collector and enthusiast, and program developer for the P3 Pinball Multi-Morphic platform.

Howard has been involved with jukebox, arcade and pinball operating since 1964, and continues to run machines around Auckland and the North Island into 2020.

Hawkes Bay’s pinball-loving couple, Adam and Lynda are both collectors. Lynda is also the IFPA coordinator for the region.

A keen player since the early 1990s, and has dominated the leaderboard on any machine at Wellington’s longest running café, Midnight Espresso, since it opened in 1989.

A keen collector and organiser of New Zealand’s largest annual pinball festival, Pincade, which has occurred every March since 2008.

Nick is a collector and restorer of mostly Williams/Bally 1990s machines, and rounded out with some early and later titles.

Dave lives on the Kapiti Coast. He worked with TV repair for much of his earlier life and has since became a repairer, collector and operator of arcade and pinball.

Nick lives in Christchurch. During the 70s and 80s boom years he worked security at the two main arcades of the time: Wizards and The Doghouse. Nick is an an avid collector and passionate about arcade culture and history.