 Arcade Repair Tips- Tim Peterson and Jonathan Leung launched the Arcade Repair Tips blog in 2008 as a resource to provide general information on arcade repair to the public. Since that time, they have produced over 50 videos as part of their Arcade Repair Tips Video Series and answered hundreds of emails on their Question & Answer Podcast. With their keep it simple approach and positive attitude, Arcade Repair Tips gives even the most confused beginner the skills and the confidence they need to do their own repairs. Just remember their motto: when you fix the game, you play the game!
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 Joe Crookham - My collection like many, started off with non-working cabinets that needed quite a bit of work. With the help of another member of the arcade community I was turned onto constructing new cabinets. This was really a perfect fit for me. I was able to combine my new love of arcade machines with years of woodworking experience. I reproduce classic arcade cabinets with the use of a high precision CNC router. My production list includes 30 unique cabinets and is continually growing.
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 John Costa and show his wife
Michelle, son Michael, and daughter Michaela has been participated in the arcade show for 7 years. They have been serious collectors of coin-operated machines for over
15 years, with a collection to date of about 180 pieces. Using his
electrical knowledge he repaired games out
of necessity to keep his own collection in top shape. Eventually, he branched out to the public to help them to maintain their games.
He has worked on everything from table top pinball machines, to WPC
pinball machines, to early 1930s/1940s jukeboxes.
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 Karl Kuhlenschmidt -
Third Dimension Concepts. Karl will have about eight machines for play and sale. He will be the last speaker on Saturday the topic Classic Restore and Restoration. I will be discussing how to restore water damaged cabinets from the trash heap by using common products found in your local hardware store!
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 Multimorphic- The P3 is a pinball platform. It supports hundreds of completely different game apps, each providing a unique gaming experience and offering something for everybody, kids and adults alike! Many of these games will be written by us. Others can be written by you! When combined with different upper playfield shot layouts, the possibilities are truly endless.
Our first suite of games will take you to imaginery worlds you've never seen before and through interactions you never dreamed were possible. Unknown adventures lie ahead! Journey through outer space, encountering new worlds, making new friends, and battling new enemies. Each world presents new challenges, scenery, and interactions, as does the seemingly empty space around it.
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 Dan Ferguson - Founder of the Lone Star Pinball Museum, Dan has one of the largest collections of pre-DMD pinball’s in the USA. Dan had consulted on many pinball book's, and pictures of his machines have help chronolog the history of pinball.
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 Ken Graham - A Former Williams Programmer originally hired as part of a small group that was to do the conversion of Williams games to the Atari VCS system. But ended up working on Mystic Marathon, and helped with playtesting Bubbles, Splat!, Sinistar and Joust Pinball.
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 Darrell Spice jr - of SpiceWare, Home Brew Programmer and visionary is responsible for the excellent remake of Atari's 2600 'Warlords' known as 'Medieval
Mayhem', the VCS game 'Stay Frosty' and ported the popular Stella emulator to the OS/2. He is currently working an updated version of Berzerk called Frantic for the Atari 2600.
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Speakers and Clinics
11/02/12
8pm until 11pm - Pinball & Arcade Related Video's
11/03/12
11 am Ken Graham Former Williams Programmer talks shop
12 pm Atari Home Brew Programming with Darrell Spice jr of SPiceWare
1 pm History of Pinball w/ Dan Ferguson (Lone Star Pinball)
2 pm Multimorphic- The P3 pinball platform
3 pm Arcade Repair Tips- Tim Peterson and Jonathan Leung
4 pm Pinball Shop & Repair Clinic with John Costa
5 pm Joe Crookham how to replace your old arcade cab
6 Pm Karl Kuhlenschmidt -topic Classic Restore and Restoration.
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