2017 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show!

Start: June 9, 2017, 7 p.m.

End: June 11, 2017, 10 p.m.

Event at Greater Tacoma Convention Center

The 2017 Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show takes place June 9th - 11th at the Tacoma Convention Center in Washington State! The show features around 400 pinball and arcade machines from the 1950s to today, tournaments, world record high score attempts, vendors, seminars, guest speakers, raffles and prizes. This convention draws thousands of collectors, players and fans of classic coin-op games.

-This is our 10th show! Find out why so many people consider this one of the best shows in the world. Over 100 volunteers help put on this yearly non-profit show and it runs quite smoothly. For our 10th show we promise to be bigger and better than ever before! Tickets are on sale now! If you buy a 3-day pass online, you will also get an 11"x17" poster and a 10-year button!

-Hundreds and hundreds games on freeplay the entire weekend, all 31 hours the show is running!. This is a show for games and fun, we expect you to come ready to play!

-Top speakers from the industry and lots of tech seminars. And don't worry if you can't make it to every seminar or talk, they will all be filmed, we stream all our seminars live and put them on the web later for viewing. Speakers include:
Stevie Ritchie, John Trudeau, Mark Ritchie, Greg Freres,

David Thiel, John Youssi, Jersey Jack, Butch Peel,
and Tim Kitzrow (the announcer from NBA Jam!)

-Vendors galore! We draw the top vendors from around the States and Canada. Seattle has a massive pinball and arcade collecting community and lots of money, if you aren't vending at our show, you are missing out on promoting and selling your products to a large audience, nearly 4,000 people attend our show over the course of the 3-day weekend.

-2 hotels within a block of the venue! The Courtyard Marriott is our official hotel and sponsor right across the street. The Hotel Murano is 2 blocks away. Discount codes are available on our website.

-There are dozens of restaurants, microbreweries and bars within a few blocks of the venue, there are 2 local barcades as well.

-Half a dozen pinball tournaments, including womens, classics, kids, rookies and the main tournament. The Pacific Northwest region is home to many of the world's top competetive players and where pinball tournaments happen all the time! We offer all types of tournament play from kids and rookies to playing against some of the top players in the world of competitive pinball.

-Raffles and prizes! Win a full-sized pinball or arcade game every day of the show, along with tons of other great prizes and game related merch. Our grand prize raffle is for a brand new Stern Batman '66 Premium Edition pinball machine. Wouldn't you want take that home with you?

-Lots more goes on, including arcade tournaments, world record high score attempts, a large Kid's Zone with children's games and learning opportunities, home brew and one-of-a kind pins and vids, rare prototypes and whitewoods, and debuts of the latest pinball and arcade games and products. There is food, beer and wine onsight, cheap and free parking options all around the venue, also lots of other cool things to see and do in downtown Tacoma.

Much more info to come over the coming months, but get the dates on your calendar now, share the invite, and talk all your friends and family into coming. You don't want to miss the action!