FAST Pinball

FAST Pinball is the machine-control platform of FAST Pinball, a hardware company founded in 2014 by Aaron Davis and Dave Beecher and based in the Seattle area. The firm builds no machines of its own; it sells control electronics to the people who do — individual hobbyists, indie game studios and commercial manufacturers, for new machines built from scratch as well as kits that update old ones.^[1][2]

Two platforms share the family. The Modern platform is built around the Neuron controller, which combines machine control, smart power-system monitoring and room to expand with the I/O boards a full-size game needs.^[3] The Retro platform takes the same electronics thinking into classic machines, letting builders expand and modernize games from Williams System 11 through the WPC era to Williams WPC-95.^[4]

Machines on FAST hardware

Commercial machines run on the platform at both ends of the boutique trade. Barrels of Fun built its first game, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (2023) — a run limited to 1,100 units — around the FAST boardset, which drives the playfield devices, the sound system and the machine’s two displays.^[5] Pedretti Gaming’s Funhouse remake lists the Neuron CPU, with FAST power-filter and audio boards, as its game electronics.^[6] And the officially licensed “2.0” kits — products that install into a classic Bally or Williams machine and turn it into a new game while keeping the original intact — came onto FAST hardware as a group when the category went commercial: James Cardona, who had built his No Good Gofers: Battle for the Green kit on the Multimorphic P-ROC, recoded it for the FAST platform to match the other kit makers,^[7] and his later kits, through Fish Tales: Ultimate Fishing Challenge (2026), ship with FAST Pinball handling the hardware.^[8]