Anderson’s passion for pinball spreads to peninsula Dave Anderson owns over 450 pinball machines, ranging from vintage electromechanical rigs from the 1950s to state-of-the-art modern releases. These ...

For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking the world's first Star Wars pinball machine was made in the US. But no, it turns out it came from Newcastle.

The history of pinball has a long and storied past. The first commercially successful pinball machine was introduced in 1931 by Gottlieb and it didn't even have the now-ubiquitous flippers. In fact, ...

Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually be made available for the public to play at a special exhibition.

K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

I fondly remember a wasted youth cozying up to glass-topped boxes of flashing lights, strange sounds and steel balls flying around an angled assault course. But, apart from helpful nudges from mates, ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Montrose bar Poison Girl celebrated its 19th anniversary with the usual bells and whistles: special cocktails, live music and food for purchase on the back patio, T-shirts for sale ...

Mike Perry sits perched on the arm of a white couch inside an old church, explaining how he ended up here — in this dimly lit room surrounded by 60 pinball games that pulsate and buzz. “I was kind of ...

Wesley Hospital added some equipment Thursday morning to their pediatric unit. It may not be the obvious choice to help a patient heal, but if you talk to the kids, it's good medicine. The teen lounge ...

Las Vegas arcade operator Tim Arnold doesn’t claim to be much of a businessman. The 62-year-old used to install pinball machines at bars and restaurants but, he says, is “too stupid to stop.” He doesn ...