Homebrew Showcase: Bootleggers Pinball at Pinball Expo 2026
Summary
Bootleggers homebrew team shows open-source prohibition-themed MPF pinball at Expo 2026, planning full file release.
Marco Pinball interviews the Bootleggers team at Pinball Expo 2026 about their open-source homebrew machine, a prohibition-era whiskey-themed game built on the Mission Pinball Framework. The team, spread across the country, designed the game collaboratively over about 11 months, taking prototypes to multiple shows for feedback and planning to publish all files, bills of materials, and assembly videos.
Bootleggers is an open-source, Prohibition-era homebrew pinball machine from the PinForge team. Every file is being published so you can build one yourself. At PINDEVCON 2026 inside Pinball Expo 2026, the team explains the story, the art and their plan to make homebrew easier for everyone. Want to build your own game?
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