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Brian F Colin
Game designer / Artist General Awesome dude!
Brian F Colin
Game designer / Artist General Awesome dude!
Brian Colin (born November 4, 1956) is an American video-game designer, artist and animator. Among his best-known works are the coin-operated arcade games Rampage, Arch Rivals and Rampage: World Tour as well as General Chaos for the Sega Genesis game console. He is the CEO of Game Refuge, an independent video-game design and development studio with offices in Downers Grove, Illinois. He has been noted for his work in the field of bitmapped video-game graphics and animation, creating video-game sprites and tiled background graphics with a recognizable, identifiable style.[1]
Tim Kitzrow
Game voice Talent: Bally/Williams, EA Sports, Stern
Tim Kitzrow
Game voice Talent: Bally/Williams, EA Sports, Stern
(guest/Booth/Panelist)
TIM KITZROW is the iconic voice of your favorite sports franchises — NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz and MLB Slugfest — and over a dozen classic pinball games. With NBA JAM, which grossed over $2 BILLION to date, Kitzrow introduced BOOMSHAKALAKA to the NBA lexicon and earned pop culture immortality.
Brett Weiss
Game Author
Brett Weiss
Game Author
Respected video game historian, journalist, and national columnist Brett Weiss is the author of over 10 books, including the Classic Home Video Games series, The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987, and The SNES Omnibus volumes 1 and 2.
Donald Hayes
Astro World Historian / Speaker
Donald Hayes
Astro World Historian / Speaker
"AstroWorld - Myths, Memories and Legends of Houston's Long Lost Theme Park"
Join life-long AstroWorld fan and memorabilia collector Donald Hayes on an exploration of Houston's legendary AstroWorld theme park, its history spanning five decades, and its sudden demise in 2005.
Barrels of Fun
Houston Texas Pinball Manufacturer!
Barrels of Fun presents Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, where YOU battle Jareth the Goblin King. It’s up to you to defeat him before the 13th hour! In this game you will meet new “friends”, who may hurt you or help you in your quest. What will you choose, left or right? Up or down? Do you take a “friend’s” advice or totally ignore them? It’s all up to you as you try and avoid the Oubliette, the Cleaners as well as the Bog of Eternal Stench.
Raymond Jett
Vintage Computer Festival SW and Arcadecomponents.com
Raymond Jett
Vintage Computer Festival SW and Arcadecomponents.com
Raymond started in the hobby back in 7th grade. Being the prototypical teen nerd, he spent too many hours at his local Radio Shack stores answering questions about parts while hanging out and shopping. For the past 17 years, he has run Arcadecomponents.com where he fixes arcade game and vintage computer logic boards, sells components online, and offers repair advice for folks doing their own work.
Ryan Sizemore
Mighty Coconut VR
Ryan Sizemore
Mighty Coconut VR
Ryan Sizemore is a senior technical artist at Mighty Coconut. He has worked on 10+ courses for Walkabout while part of the Coconut team. He specializes in 3D model optimization, shader creation, animations, and visual effects. Always on the look out to surprise and delight players with stunning visuals and fun hidden secrets.
Nudge Pinball: Doc Monday
Speaker
Nudge Pinball: Doc Monday
Speaker
Doc Monday editor in Chief will be down for the Houston Arcade Expo! Get ready for a kick ass seminar and he will be hanging out at the show all weekend! Nudge is a pinball lifestyle mag for dorks, freaks, basement rats, drunks, hop heads, flip nuts, grossos, punks, loafers, and just plain frickin’ idiots. It’s not PC. It’s PB. Nudge is a pinball lifestyle magazine.
Karl Paetzel
Arcade Historian
Karl Paetzel
Arcade Historian
As a founder of The Memorial City Game Room Preservation Society, Karl Paetzel orchestrates a celebration of Houston's arcade gaming legacy. He offers a unique perspective shaped by his upbringing in Houston during the 1970s and 1980s. Recognized for his contributions to preserving and promoting Texas history and culture, Karl was honored by the Governor of Texas with the title of Admiral in the Texas Navy. Additionally, he’s a self-taught software programmer who’s been designing and coding video games since 1981. Beyond that, he revels in the energetic rhythms of New Wave music, rounding out his multifaceted passions.
Mike Vinikour
Stern Pinball
Mike Vinikour
Stern Pinball
Mike Vinikour is an Associate Game Developer at Stern Pinball. Mike has worked on almost every Stern game released in the past several years including RUSH and James Bond 007.
Other titles Mike worked on are Batman, Iron Maiden, KISS, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Beatles, and many more. Mike also has an impressive resume with some of your favorite arcade games including Mortal Kombat.
You can usually find Mike hanging around in the Joystix booth answering questions, teaching the rules to games, and giving away Stern swag.
Randy Martinez
(guest/Booth/Panelist)
Randy Martinez
(guest/Booth/Panelist)
Randy Martinez is one of todays most popular artists in the pop culture arts. This Southern California Artist, is known world wide for his exciting and colorful illustrations and fun personality. He has created official art for Lucasfilm (Star Wars, Indiana Jones), Marvel, DC, Aliens, Harry Potter, The San Diego Padres and The San Francisco Giants. Randy’s art has appeared on just about everything you can imagine. From books and magazines, to Fine Art Prints and of course Pinball Machines.
Considered the Swiss Army Knife of Illustrators, Randy Martinez has been creating Cartoons, Caricatures, Illustrations, Paintings, and 3D art for just about every form of media and merchandise, since 1992.
In 2019 Randy entered the world of Pinball with the release of two fully illustrated Pinball Machines for Stern Pinball, Star Wars: Comics (Pro and Premium). Soon after, Randy was tapped again by Stern Pinball, to create three all new fully illustrated Pinball Machines (Pro,Premium and LE) for the hit game of 2021, The Mandalorian! In 2024 he did the fantastic John Wick Stern Pinball “I absolutely LOVE illustrating Pinball Machines. I cannot wait to illustrate the next game!”
Gerry Stellenberg
Pinball Designer, Manufacture MultiMorphic
Gerry Stellenberg
Pinball Designer, Manufacture MultiMorphic
(guest/booth/Panelist)
The P3 is a modular, multi-game, pinball platform that merges the physical gameplay with interactive art, modular shots, and customizable cabinet. Come flip the latest creation of the company’s newest release, Weird Al’s Museum of Natural Hilarity!
Stephen Silver
Game designer
Stephen Silver
Game designer
Meet Stephen Silver, a man of many talents and many hats. He joined Multimorphic in 2012 to help with video production and has continued expanding his role throughout the years. He was the Creative Director on Heist and co-Creative Director on Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity, but he's also played a large role in the creative process for all aspects of our business.
We met Stephen at the Texas Pinball Festival in 2012 when showing off the very first P3 prototype. He saw a small team of dummies trying to do really cool things with a new pinball machine that had an embedded video screen, and he instantly knew we needed his help.
Joe Grisaffi: Laughing Dog Comedy Film Festival
Film Maker
"The best short films of the 2024 Laughing Dog Comedy Film Festival."
