As arcades become more and more rare, plenty of pinball enthusiasts are moving these intricate machines to their home collections in basements, garages, and guest rooms. But if you’re not fortunate ...
Pinball has a history that stretches back to France in the 1600s. Over the centuries, the game has certainly evolved, but at the end of the day, the mechanics and gameplay remain largely the same. You ...
SUPERIOR — With his knees bent and one foot slightly in front of the other, Parnell Lutz, of Duluth, hunched over a pinball machine in Average’s Joe’s pub in Superior. The game he’s focused on is ...
Chicago — Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude ...
The pinball museum is based on the private collection of Alexander Kazmin, who has been collecting the retro arcade machines from all over Russia since 2015. It's one of the most interactive and ...
The next game from Stern Pinball Inc. will be JAWS, a machine based on the 1975 Steven Spielberg film and featuring many sights and sounds from the horror flick. JAWS pinball also features the ...
Pinball is undergoing a major resurgence right now – a silverball renaissance, if you will. While manufacturers like Stern and Chicago Gaming Company are releasing new titles based on major franchises ...
A new pinball machine inspired by both the 300th issue of Heavy Metal and the 1981 animated movie of the same name is coming. The machine features music from Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Brendon Small ...
Great read, thanks Ars. Hope Steve is turning his mind to digitizing all the manuals and schematics and planning to take on an apprentice / inheritor! The pinball market in Canada is minuscule ...
WHEN MOST people think of pinball, if they think of it at all, they probably imagine an old, unloved machine, starved of coins and gathering dust in the back of a bar or pizza parlour as its lights ...
To some, arcades have become a cluster of games in a forgotten corner of a dying mall as home gaming consoles have gained popularity. But for brothers Ryan and Clay Wilfahrt in Watertown, there ...
CONCORD — As California’s pinball elite battled head-to-head for the state championship title at The Flipper Room last month, an international audience tuned in to watch pinballs ricochet through ...