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Special
Guest Presentations & Information Clinics
Join
us Saturday afternoon, March 14th at the Hilton DFW Lakes
Executive Conference Center as we host a variety of
informative seminars. Whether you're just getting into the
pinball hobby or a seasoned veteran we're sure they'll be
something here for everyone! All presentations and
clinics
are free to attend with paid Texas Pinball Festival
admission.
SPECIAL
GUEST PRESENTATION
Guest
Speakers/ How to Clinics more coming soon....stay tuned!
THE
HOWS and WHYS of PINBALL ART from 1976 to 2003
hosted by Paul Faris
Saturday
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Caprock
Banquet Room (2nd Floor)
Over the span of
twenty-seven years, Paul worked for the leading
pinball companies in Chicago as a project artist,
art director, and idea guy. Get a close-up look at
what went into the art and design process of
creating legendary pinball machines. Some of the
classics he's most known for include: Eight Ball,
Centaur, Paragon, Phantom of the Opera, Xenon,
Goldeneye, Evel Knievel and Lost World (to name a
few.) Paul will share his unique experiences
involving pinball development throughout the 70's,
80's and 90's. Following Paul's presentation will
be a question and answer session followed by
autographs.
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CLASSIC
STERN PINBALL -
A talk about this amazing set of games from 1977 to
1982
 hosted by
Bill Morrison
Saturday 1:00-1:45pm
Caprock
Banquet Room (2nd Floor)
Classic
Stern Fans: Bill Morrison will be giving an
informative talk about the games made by Stern
Industry in the late 70’s and early 80’s. He
will discuss the details of the variety of games,
game play, rules, design teams and hybrids, software
and restoring a classic Stern Pinball Machine.
His fondness of the classic stern games was founded
in 1979 while working at an arcade called Pinball
Pete’s. He became intrigued by the design of
these games and was in constant contact with the
factory during 1980 and 1981. His current classic
stern collection is made up of 16 restored games
from 1978-1981. He has owned over 20 different
titles of games from this era. If you are
interested in any of these games you will not want
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RESTORING
YOUR WORN PLAYFIELD WITH DIRECT INK hosted by
John Greatwich
Saturday 2:00 - 2:45 pm
Caprock
Banquet Room (2nd Floor)
 Technology
is moving at a fast pace, & so is the printing industry.
Commercial inkjet printers can now do incredible work laying down
ink and with this technology John Greatwich is tapping into this
new forefront for pinball playfield restoration. John will explain
his difficult, but with great results, method of using direck ink
for restoring playfields that will most likely never be reproduced
again. This method also opens up the window for custom
playfields.
Some of the many pinball playfield direct ink projects John is
currently working on or has done with great results: Sorcerer,
Space Shuttle, High Speed, Eight Ball Deluxe, Star Gazer,
Seawitch, Indiana Jones, Captain Fantastic, Xenon, Evil Knieval, AFM,
& TAF.
Don't miss this informative
presentation on Direct Ink playfield restoration and see what can
be done to restore your machines playfield to like new again
at the Texas Pinball Festival.
Info at: http://greatpinball.com/index.html
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Saturday
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Caprock
Banquet Room
(2nd Floor)
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Whether
your looking to purchase your first pinball machine at
the Texas Pinball Festival or have one sitting in your
garage that doesn't work, this presentation is perfect
for the beginning hobbyist.
With over
28 years experience in the coin op - amusement field,
Mike Tillberg of Tillberg
Amusement Services will attempt to put some humor
behind the strange myths of pinball repair. This will
be a basic class so if you think you know it all about
pinball's, stay clear! This beginners guide to
pinball repair and maintenance will feature some
common practices to troubleshooting games as well as a
few old school tricks and methods for getting a
pinball machine into shape and working....while having
fun. Join Mike Tillberg as he'll show you a few ways
to enjoy this experience and not loose sleep doing it. All
new pinball owners are encouraged to attend this basic
but informative class on pinball ownership.
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 Re-Engineering
Pinball Printed Circuit Boards
hosted by
Brett Davis
Saturday 4:00 pm -
5:00 pm
Caprock
Banquet Room (2nd Floor)
With more pinball machines migrating
from the coin-op industry to the home-owner's gamerooms, the
need for easy to install replacement boards is growing.
The average homeowner does not have the skills or tools to do
board repair, and many of the "project" pins coming
out on the market do not have the key boards to make these pins
work.
 Legacy
Circuit Upgrades (LCU), owned and operated by Brett Davis, is
intent on providing solutions to the challenges associated with
board repair, upgrades, and replacements. LCU currently is
responsible for the design of all PinScore pinball display
products, which cover 99% of all numeric and alpha-numeric
pinball machines manufactured by Bally, Stern and Williams up to
the start of the dot matrix era of games. Independant
product reviews have been conducted on PinScore products in both
GameRoom (May 2008, http://pinscore.com/PinScoreReview.pdf)
and PinGame Journal (March 2008, http://pinscore.com/PGJ_review.pdf)
and have been met with rave reviews.
Brett will discuss some of the
challenges that he has faced in the development of the PinScore
products and the ongoing issues that are still being faced when
designing products to replace 20-30 year technology. There
will also be some interesting trivia questions asked and some
free giveaways.
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