On the weekend of  November 6th, 2004, Pingeek caught a plane from Richmond, VA to Irving, Texas for the 2004 Texas Pinball Festival. The seminars were excellent, and there was quite a diverse selection of pinball machines to check out as well.

Disc 1 begins with a seminar, "25 Years Of Pinball Art," featuring legendary artists Kevin O' Connor and Margaret Hudson.  They produced the art for many pinball machines over the years, including, Strikes and Spares, KISS, Evel Knievel, Eight Ball, Eight Ball Deluxe, Star Trek, Playboy (Data East), Silverball Mania, Viking, Mystic, Skateball, Flash Gordon, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Star Wars Episode, Terminator 3, The Simpsons (Data East), Torpedo Alley, Time Machine, Judge Dredd, The Simpsons Pinball Party, Harley Davidson, Elvis, and Lord Of The Rings. Kevin and Margaret tell about their days with Bally, Williams, Data East, Stern, and how they got started in the industry during the golden age of pinball. They highlight the process of how a pinball machine is designed, and how this has changed over the years. 

The last half hour features a seminar with Gene Cunningham of Illinois Pinball Company.  This seminar covers a book which had been recently published covering the controversial art of Dave Christensen, titled, "Mad Dog And His Art."  Gene highlights such topics as art screening, production numbers, and a couple of games that were never produced. 

This seminar concludes with Gene Cunningham's announcement that Illinois Pinball would be reissuing Capcom's Big Bang Bar pinball machine in limited numbers. The game was originally never released to the public, and only 14 of these were produced before Capcom closed their pinball division in 1996.

Disc 2 features nonstop arcade action all day Saturday, featuring the following games: Big Bang Bar, a prototype Andromeda, Circus Voltaire, City Slicker, Vampire, Joust, Honey, Power Play, Wild Life, Twilight Zone, Genesis, Mata Hari, Roadshow, Roller Disco, Hurricane, Surfer, WWF, Black Knight, Dracula, Firepower 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, F-14, South Park, Slug Fest, Fish Tales  Elvis, Zacharia's Pinball Champ, Queen Of Diamonds, Silverball Mania, Tommy, Wizard, Centaur, Gorgar, KISS, Strike Zone, Pro Football, High Roller Casino, Police Force, Scared Stiff, The Simpsons (Data East), Millionaire, Strikes And Spares, Wagon Train (an early Gottlieb roto target pin), and Sharkey's Shootout.

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disc 1: 1 hr. 58 minutes 

disc 2: 1 hr. 3 minutes

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