In recent years, niche and quirky items like vintage pinball machines have soared in popularity (and value). But what makes these retro machines so special? Aside from the arcade nostalgia, some ...

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Pinball machines are a study in distraction, throwing up bright bells and whistles in order to distract the player from where their ball's location. But behind the sights and sounds, simple mechanics ...

In today’s age of artificial intelligence, smartphones, video games and virtual reality, pinball has undergone a ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

Roger Sharpe saved pinball. It’s hard to believe now, but pinball machines used to be illegal in cities around the country, from New York to California and even Chicago, the pinball manufacturing ...

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 Stein’s ...

Pinball lives, and it was never on life support either. With home video game consoles driving people away from arcades, you might think pinball machines started collecting dust during the ‘90s, but it ...