photo credit: Brian Eddy(?)
Last year, 2023, was our first time attending the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show (https://www.nwpinballshow.com/) located in Tacoma, WA and overall we had a good time.
The event runs from Friday to Sunday and all three days costs $130 for early sale, $140 up to and at the show.
Tickets are available for purchase (https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets) and if you buy them before May 1, 2024, you will save $10.
There is an active Pinside thread on the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show 2024 here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/northwest-pinball-amp-arcade-show-june-7-9-2024-
This thread includes teasers of some of the things happening at the show. Looks like some interesting homebrew pins like Futurama and Led Zeppelin (Steve Kondris) will be displayed and playable (?)
As of this writing (1/28/2024) we haven’t bought tickets yet, but are planning to do so before May 1,2024. Probably three of us attending all the days: wife, oldest son and myself. Not sure if we’re going to take the grandchildren this year or not, yet. Maybe we’ll just take our older grandson, because he’s more into pinball than his brother, but will see how they do in/around Jaws. It could get the younger one more into pinball than he’s currently into.
There are also tournaments planned for the event again, with detail schedule listed as follows:
Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show (NWPAS) provides competitive pinball players in the Pacific Northwest a high quality pinball tournament experience, that begins with the satellite series, and ends with several major events at the show, including the prestigious NW Women’s Pinball Championship, the Open Tournament, a Match play Classic event, a Rookie and Amateur tournament and a Sunday Revenge group knockout event.
NWPAS Pinball Tournaments (wapinball.net)
If you’re looking for pinball-related shows in/around/near your area, check out this list:
https://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php/2024_Pinball_Show_Schedule
Zapcon (https://zapcon.com/) in Mesa, Arizona will be the next show running this weekend of March 9-10. What shows in 2024, if any, are you thinking about or planning to attend?