Pinball enthusiasts gathered this past weekend at Pincinnati, the Greater Cincinnati Pinball Show. The expo showcases 120 pinball machines from the 1930s to today, and also celebrates Cincinnati’s ...

There is something fundamentally compelling about pinball. The basic idea of keeping a shiny, silver ball from draining down a trough, with only a couple of flippers at your defense, seems impossibly ...

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 ...

Game of skills or evil gambling? It is hard to believe that there was a long period in the history of arcade games when pinball machines, these amazing mixtures of art, design, engineering, technology ...

Photo taken by Pacific Pinball Museum. This past weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda. I was expecting to play a few old favorite pinball machines, but got a ...

Few analog amusements have continued to thrive in the digital age. Videocassettes are dead. So are landlines and cathode-ray televisions. (Well, nearly dead.) One delightful diversion of yesteryear ...

Museums are always enriching, but rarely are they equally as entertaining as The Flip. The Flip is Chicago’s only pinball museum, which traces nearly 150 years of the game’s history. Founded by ...

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 ...

The generally accepted history of video games is that they sprang into existence in the 1970s, the brainchild of ambitious entrepreneurs taking advantage of quasi-military technology developed in the ...