When are the schedules going to be posted for the seminars (website still just has "coming soon" there)? Will they be streamed live or uploaded later?

I saw they were added, thanks! (https://www.goldenstatepinball.org/pin-u/ for those interested)

So is Mike's 007 Deep Dive cover for a surprise John Wick demo session?

Do you know if these seminars will be live streamed on twitch or youtube?

I was hoping that the bond seminar was a cover and MXV would be discussing Wick.

What was the game count last year?

You'd think with the whole Lionsgate-gate thing they'd want to get the pin out in the wild ASAP to start spreading positive vibes to counter that - which would make Golden State the perfect venue for such a goal. Ah, Stern.

0.08 or 0.80? Did they really stream a 0.08 code version? That seems like it would be barely functional.

Even terrible Bond and Batman'66 launch code was still in the double digits, so that's why I assumed the .08 had to be a mistake and they were playing with .80 code. NO WAY Wick is worse than Batman'66 launch code, which was essentially one baby step above a box of blinking lights.

Swag box for those bringing pins to Golden State was updated, too. There's an 11x17 Pingame journal calendar that runs through Feb 2025 included now, too.

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All the vendors who decided to participate in this deserve credit as they didn't quite know how it would turn out because I pitched them the idea essentially blind. Though it came together on a very short timeline, it ended up being a very cool bonus for people bringing pins to the show. Marco plussing theirs up by sending the calendars as a surprise extra was awesome, too.

I appreciate the sentiment (thank you), but all the vendors that made this happen by contributing to the box deserve similar accolades. I asked many more vendors to participate than are in the final swag box that will be at the show. The ones actually in the swag box deserve props for jumping on this and contributing something cool for the people supporting the show with pins to play.

Dang, 360 pins in the building and ~25 more in Camp Silverball! Has GSPF become the largest pinball show on the West Coast? CAX and Northwest have a bigger overall game count, but a good chunk of that is arcade machines, the pinball count is less or much less than GSPF.

Purely by pinball machine count, I think this is the biggest show on the West Coast now, and one of the largest in the whole US.

Another missed marketing opportunity by Stern. You'd think they'd want to be blasting everywhere that the pinball show with more pins than any other show in the West would have a ton of John Wick to play this week, especially after their catastrophic Wick launch. But instead they're pushing the Northwest Pinball and Arcade show that has less pins, almost three weeks later, which is long after Wick will be common on routes? The definition of inscrutable.

Eco-Warrior theme?

Maybe Eco-Warrior Black Knight crossed with Judge Dredd.

"You will regret littering."
"Recycling is not optional!"
"Plastic use will cost you plenty, cretin!"
"Microplastics penalty detected."

The options are endless.

...then again Green Knight could also be a Black Knight origin pin, when he was young and inexperienced. Lots of comedic accidents and unfortunate encounters.

Knapp Arcade put up a story about the show today:

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/the-fantastic-golden-state-pinball-festival-is-this-weekend

Nice to see that John Wick had it show debut at the largest pinball show in the West! Nice work making that happen!

They can always open the outlanes wide and limit it to single player games in the settings to keep lines moving.

The code is so early, it will be hard to tell where it ends up just by playing at launch.

Can someone saunter over and take pics of the pins in the Camp Silverball area?

With the Camp Silverball games, the total was almost 400 games this year. Crazy good support.