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Arcades Across America Part 4 - The Flipper Room and The Pacific Pinball Museum - Episode 46

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Send us Fan Mail Arcades Across America Part 4 - Episode 46. Jamie sits down with a roundtable of Arcade Owners and Operators with his “Coe-Host”, Coe from Quarter Drop Arcade. Joining them are...

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Highlights

  • Pacific Pinball Museum has 1,300 games total, the largest collection in the world not owned by a single individual
  • Pacific Pinball Museum just received 501c3 nonprofit approval
  • Little Flippers became a 501c3 nonprofit one week before Pinball Expo
  • Bay Area has multiple active pinball leagues with 30-40 players per night at Flipper Room league
  • Pacific Pinball Museum collection is 105 games in main location, 1,200 in warehouse annex
  • Flipper Room has approximately 70 machines in collection, about half on display
  • Museum currently has about 10,000 sq ft and is fundraising for 15,000-20,000 sq ft expansion
  • Little Flippers has about a dozen chapters listed with 2-3 more in process of signing up
  • Pacific Pinball Museum is in its 21st year of operation
  • The Flipper Room started when owner received a pinball machine as memorial to deceased friend's father

Notable quotes

“Pinball is like kinetic art, right? It's like a campfire that you're staring at, but it's full of artwork.”
Evan Felipe
“To inspire an interest in science, art, and history through pinball, and to preserve and promote this important part of American culture.”
Jamie Burchill (reading museum mission)
“These kids are playing games and then they place these old retro and it's just something different... I would say as a whole, I'm quite surprised how often the kids gravitate to the older machines.”
Mike Moretti
“We really believe it's important to make it a multi-generational attraction. Because as people age out, less people will know, say, wood rail games and wedge head games.”
Evan Felipe
“I opened a frame shop not a pinball arcade and now that I have a pinball arcade it turns out there's a gentleman down the street from me three buildings...”
Mike Moretti
“It's a members' choice room now, and we let people vote on what came into this room... This was about 21 years ago. It was a collection of six or seven games and one jukebox, and it was only open Friday nights.”
Evan Felipe
“The Little Flippers started at the Flipper Room when my kids were starting to get old enough to come in and play. And they would want to have their friends over to play as well.”
Mike Moretti
“So we're looking in the greater Bay Area, so that is really from San Rafael to San Jose and then kind of Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, but including San Francisco, kind of the greater Bay Area.”
Evan Felipe

Entities

  • Data East· company
  • Alameda Naval Air Station· organization
  • Bay Area pinball community· organization
  • Foster Family Network· organization
  • Little Flippers· organization
  • Lucky Juju Arcade· organization
  • Meow Wolf· organization
  • Pacific Pinball Museum· organization
  • Pacific Pinball Museum· organization
  • The Flipper Room· organization
  • Wormhole Pinball· organization
  • Co· person
  • Evan Felipe· person
  • Jamie Burchill· person
  • Johnny O· person
  • Melissa Harmon· person
  • Michael Sheese· person
  • Mike Moretti· person

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