DPP #221 "Scorbit Interview!"

Scorbit founders detail decade-long platform enabling connected pinball tournaments and leaderboards across all machine eras.

Synopsis

Don's A Pinball Podcast interviews the three co-founders of Scorbit (Ron Richards, Jay Adelson, Brian O'Neill) about their connected pinball platform. Scorbit has spent 15 years developing technology to extract score data from pinball machines spanning 1977 to present day (achieving 91% coverage), enabling leaderboarding, asynchronous tournaments, and payment integration across classic and modern games. The platform works alongside Stern's Insider Connected and is positioned to launch major venue adoption in 2026.

Entities

• CGC· company
• Dig· company
• Mission Pinball· company
• Play Mechanics· company
• Revision3· company
• Scorbit· company
• Stern Pinball· company
• California Extreme· event
• Pinball Expo October 2025· event
• Pulp Fiction· game
• Brian O'Neill· person
• Don· person
• Jay Adelson· person
• Ron Richards· person
• NFC tap pad· product
• Pinball Map· product
• Scorbitron· product
• Stern Insider Connected· product