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 ...

Learn about the history of pinball in this High Times print piece from July, 1979. Bagatelle, a popular game in the 19th century, is the granddaddy of pinball. Bagatelle is similar to pool, in that ...

Pinball historian Richard Bueschel hosts an hour-long look at the arcade favorite's illustrious history, including interviews with flipper devotees Slash (from Guns & Roses), Aerosmith guitarist Joe ...

A line of pinball machines at the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, Calif. (Natalia Seenarine for Courthouse News) ALAMEDA Calif. (CN) — Nestled in the sleepy island community of Alameda is a unique ...

“The only certainty about pinball is that every game will be different,” declares Chad (Science Comics: Solar System) in this illuminating and thorough graphic history. Chad chronicles the craze from ...

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...

The game of pinball has entertained the minds of many across the globe for more than 100 years. Its future wasn't always so certain and has been rocky. A resurgence of new fans has given the classic ...

MANCHESTER — Beth and Marty Friedman began buying secondhand American-made pinball machines in 2017. All 59 machines now sit alongside a couple of brand-new ones in their pinball arcade-museum, which ...

The Museum of Pinball was only open for nine days a year in pre-Covid times, but when it was open, it glowed like – well, like an arcade in its neon-lit heyday. Pinball machines may be relegated now ...

GIRARD, Ohio – Like all collections, it started with one: One pinball machine, circa 1947, in the basement of Rob Berk’s childhood home in Warren. Fast forward more than 60 years, and Berk now owns ...