If you grew up in the '60s, '70s or '80s, you likely have fond memories spending Saturday afternoons at a dark arcade surrounded by the dings, clunks, whizzes and zings of a classic pinball machine.

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 ...

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 ...

The arcade as we once knew it is dead, but pinball is making a comeback–at least according to the companies who make the machines. The BBC’s Paul Rubens reports: Gary Stern, president of Stern Pinball ...

Instead, his time at Madison Area Technical College was all about making sure that his Judge Dredd, Pin-Bot and Fire Power pinball machines were in proper working order. Hiring someone to fix a 25- to ...

Pinball no longer rules the gaming landscape, but it still has an intensely loyal legion of followers. These individuals would much rather guide a steel ball down a ramp in real life than a make ...

On a Tuesday night at Logan Arcade, a bar on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Ian, a 57-year-old assistant manager, looks at the Rick and Morty pinball machine. “This is a frustrating machine,” he says. He ...

This is a somewhat specialized build, pondering building a virtual pinball cabinet based around Visual Pinball and a large screen 1080p LCD TV. As such it only needs a pretty minimal machine, but with ...

Step into an unassuming industrial building in Teltow, just outside Berlin, Germany and a bright, clacking universe unfolds: Around 50 pinball machines line 200sq m, from classics like Wizard and The ...

When you spend a great deal of time in the car graveyards of the world, as I do, you learn that many interesting items take their final tow-truck ride to Ewe Pullet inside the doomed vehicles. Usually ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. There are certain inalienable facts about Stern’s new pinball machines. New machines will be based on a license ...