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Krystle Gemnich - Episode 45

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Send us Fan Mail Episode 45 chronicles Krystle Gemnich's journey in the world of pinball. It covers her experiences at Pinball Expo, her entry into building pinball machines, the story behind...

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Highlights

  • Crystal worked at Logan Arcade from 2016 to 2019 as a junior apprentice/technician
  • Crystal moved to work for Marco Specialties in Columbia, South Carolina in 2019 in customer service
  • Crystal currently works as a Production Development Liaison at Jersey Jack Pinball, involved in prototyping, production translation, training, and quality control
  • The Wormhole in Houston started in October 2020 as a quarantine project with 8 people and ~25 rotating machines from Tim's warehouse of ~140 games
  • The Wormhole is now a 501c3 museum with 250+ pinball machines and runs three tournaments per month
  • Chicago Pinball City League was started by a mutual friend of Crystal's after her breakup, which led to her deeper involvement in pinball

Notable quotes

“I hate that a man is the reason that I started playing pinball, but really... me and my partner split up. And, you know, as it goes in a bad breakup, you know, you find things that help you cope and that make you feel better.”
Crystal Gemnich
“I'm in a weird timeline that I, it's like that imposter syndrome that's like, I'm trying to get over where I'm like, how, how am I in this timeline? How did this happen?”
Crystal Gemnich
“I joke around like I'm going to go back to 2013 and tell me like 30 year old me like, guess what? Ten years. Keep working hard.”
Crystal Gemnich
“We started in COVID, too. We were going to be a pinball bar. We couldn't get a liquor license because we only have seven parking spots.”
Jamie Burchell
“What we try to do is just give everyone a safe place to play pinball... If you have that safe place for anyone to come and play pinball, I think they'll get addicted to it.”
Jamie Burchell
“So Avatar just came out right, really excited to work on this game excited to work with Mark because it was his first game... the element of surprise is taken away from from me and my experience of having pins for leap.”
Crystal Gemnich

Entities

  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Marco Specialties· company
  • Midwest Gaming Classic (MGC)· event
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Avatar· game
  • Taxi· game
  • Bells and Chimes Houston· organization
  • Chicago Pinball City League· organization
  • Wormhole Pinball· organization
  • Brian· person
  • Cale Hernandez· person
  • Crystal Gemnich· person
  • Emoto· person
  • Gina Lowe· person
  • Jack Danger· person
  • Jamie Burchell· person
  • Jim Zespi· person
  • Mark Ritchie· person
  • Nick Campbell· person
  • Rachel· person
  • Tim· person
  • CP Pinball / Atomic Pinball· venue
  • Logan Arcade· venue

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