Heighway Pinball

Heighway Pinball was a Welsh manufacturer founded in 2012 by Andrew Heighway in Merthyr Tydfil. Its calling card was a thin, low cabinet whose playfield could be removed and swapped, so an owner could keep several games in one machine at a lower price. The company’s first table was Full Throttle (2015), a motorcycle racer, and its best-known game was the licensed Alien (2016). Heighway closed its factory and went into liquidation in 2018; the rights to Alien were acquired by Pinball Brothers — founded by some of Heighway’s own investors — who carried the game forward.