If you grew up in the '60s, '70s or '80s, you likely have fond memories spending Saturday afternoons at a dark arcade surrounded by the dings, clunks, whizzes and zings of a classic pinball machine.
Vaughn Jordan doesn’t have childhood memories of playing pinball, pumping quarters into a machine at an arcade or some random 7-Eleven. His entry into pinball was much more recent, during the pandemic ...
Pinball has a history that stretches back to France in the 1600s. Over the centuries, the game has certainly evolved, but at the end of the day, the mechanics and gameplay remain largely the same. You ...
Godzilla can be mankind’s greatest friend or greatest foe. Now that will also be true at your local arcade. New Godzilla pinball machines will have you saving Earth from alien invaders, or bringing ...
Pinball was once banned and considered a menace to society. Now, you can play pinball competitively almost every night of the ...
SUPERIOR — With his knees bent and one foot slightly in front of the other, Parnell Lutz, of Duluth, hunched over a pinball machine in Average’s Joe’s pub in Superior. The game he’s focused on is ...
Ogden • Nate and Kristin Smith, the owners of Ogden’s Lit Arcade Bar, anxiously attended meetings of Utah’s liquor commission month after month, driving from Ogden to Taylorsville to wait with a queue ...
Pinball lives, and it was never on life support either. With home video game consoles driving people away from arcades, you might think pinball machines started collecting dust during the ‘90s, but it ...
A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike. The echoes of arcade game history fill the otherwise quiet Aviation Mall – they’re coming from Arcade ...