Presented by Brett King

Learn about the origins of pinball in the 1800s, and how its modern form began in Chicago in the 1930s. Learn about the technology beneath the table, and try your hand on an authentic 1933 Chicago World’s Fair pinball machine!


Brett King is a man of many hats – a costumer, prop-maker, gamemaster, game designer, presenter, Magic Lantern performer, and convention organizer. His life-long love of role-playing games and storytelling carried over into his steampunk panels, props, and costumes. He always aims to entertain, inform, and inspire at conventions, whether running steampunk-styled Dungeons & Dragons games, teaching about automata or prop making, entertaining as his troll-hunting alter-ego Gustaf Danielsson, or presenting Magic Lantern shows.


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