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, ...

A little competition and a whole lot of fun – pinball machines in children’s hospitals inspire kids to have a good time! That was the vision of Project Pinball Charity, a registered 501c3 organization ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

You’d probably assume the first Star Wars pinball machine came out of the United States, and fair enough. The film was American, the franchise was American (obvious Japanese samurai film ...

Some people are just insane, and do crazy projects that make everyone wonder what they're really doing with their life. And I am one of those people! There were multiple custom-built pinball machines ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arcade may not be as thriving and widespread as it once was, but the lack of public places to play pinball hasn’t killed the mighty machine just yet. In fact, it’s experiencing a second ...

McLean, Illinois, has a population of 750 people and 100 pinball machines. The town square looks like something out of a Western: brown brick buildings baking in the summer sun, surrounding a single ...