Pinball Content Creators Favorite Games And What They Love About Pinball

Special thanks to Joel Engelberth (for the idea) and Erin Seiden (for the transcription assistance).

In early October, I received a message from Joel Engelberth of Triple Drain Pinball Podcast and Flip n’ Out streaming fame. He had an idea for a large-scale pinball media collaboration project and wanted to see if I was interested in helping make it happen. To which I said, “of course!”

His idea was simple: ask a bunch of people in the pinball media and content creation space to list their top five games and share their picks on their own channels. I’d then compile all the responses into a summary article and publish on Kineticist.

I added a small wrinkle, which was to also ask the content creators what they loved most about pinball.

We received an incredible response to the project, with over 35 entities responding to the request from 6 different countries.

The response was so incredible that we’re going to be breaking this up into two different posts. The first one (this one) will aggregate and share all the responses. The second post is turning into a new dedicated page on the site that we're calling the PPPOWER 100, or the Pinball Promoters' Power 100. There we will detail the rankings of everyone's favorite games and a few other interesting tidbits from the data.

So, without further ado, here are all the pinball creators' responses to this request.

We’ll kick it off with Triple Drain as a thank you to Joel, and then go alphabetically from there.

Few things to keep in mind as you read:

Some people got creative with how they chose to respond to one or both prompts, so we've noted those details where possible.
In the case of the “what do you love most about pinball” question, we’ll be paraphrasing people’s responses where we can, so we encourage you to watch, read, or listen to the creator’s full piece if you find something you connect with.

Finally - if we didn’t get to you in our outreach and you’d like to participate, please ‍