Tim Sexton

Tim Sexton was born in 1993 and grew up during a time when pinball’s arcade presence was in decline​. Like many of his generation, his first exposure to pinball was virtual – notably the “3D Space Cadet” pinball game included with Windows XP. He played little physical pinball as a child, but that changed around 2012 when, at age 19, he visited the Pinball Gallery in Malvern, Pennsylvania​. There he discovered a vibrant collection of machines and a local league. Seeing league standings posted on a wall was an epiphany: it revealed to him that pinball was “a completely skill-based game. This realization sparked Sexton’s passion for competitive play. In 2013, while a computer science student at Penn State University, he joined the Pinball Gallery’s summer league and even traveled to compete in the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) 16 tournament that year​.