When Houston’s first pinball machine maker, Barrels of Fun, debuted its initial game in 2023, it was a surprise hit. Well, maybe it was a surprise to the pinball collecting community ...

Kyle Scott competes for his team at Wedgehead's weekly Howdy Pardner pinball tournament in Portland, Oregon, on April 10. (Monique Merrill/Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — It’s an overcast ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Pinball enthusiasts gathered in droves Saturday at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center for Pinball at the 'Zoo. Now in its 25th year, Pinball at the 'Zoo featured over 175 games ...

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It’s 1993. I don’t even remember where I first began playing the Jurassic Park pinball machine, but the sounds are burned into my brain: the roar of a T. rex, the driving score, and the famous ...

Toronto is home to the largest pinball arcade in all of Canada, and it's all hiding in a Koreatown basement. Steve Lefort, the owner and founder of Bloor West's Antisocial Pinball Lounge ...

WHEN MOST people think of pinball, if they think of it at all, they probably imagine an old, unloved machine, starved of coins and gathering dust in the back of a bar or pizza parlour as its ...

A pinball diehard loves the classic pastime so much, she has converted her Park Slope abode into a plinky-plonky paradise — giving up the usual comforts of home to squeeze in 16 of the hulking ...

Of course, with great power comes great responsibility. (Yes, I just quoted Spider-Man in an article about a pinball museum. Deal with it.) The temptation to park yourself in front of one machine and ...

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This is pinball, and people play a lot of it. “In today’s LCD era, the games are more story-based than ever before,” says Keith Elwin, the designer behind Stern Pinball’s recent Jaws ...