Returning home from the Cleveland Guardians game Friday night, I began wondering how I was going to waste my rare free Saturday afteroon. Then it hit me. While sitting at the stop light in Burbank, ...

In our high-tech world, it’s easy to forget the joy of things that aren’t on the internet. One of those is pinball.

In recent years, niche and quirky items like vintage pinball machines have soared in popularity (and value). But what makes these retro machines so special? Aside from the arcade nostalgia, some ...

A couple of years ago, we made a plea for Dallas to step up and produce a cool pinball lounge. A renewed wave of interest in the delightfully approachable game had made its way to other major cities ...

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — There's a new museum coming to St. Petersburg, and its art is more of the coin-operated variety. The Pinball Arcade Museum will open on Thursday at 2313 Central Ave. in the ...

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 ...

Your grandparents might have joined a bowling league. Today, you can join a pinball league. A pinball renaissance is happening across the Northwest, thanks to a fervent community (called Pinheads) ...

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 ...

To my surprise, there’s no shortage of pinball fun around Seattle. While I don’t think it ever went away, there was a lull. Stepping into the Seattle Pinball Museum in the International District, a ...

Pinball—the pastime of slapping buttons and nudging machines to rescue an 80-gram steel sphere from its downhill trajectory — is enjoying a renaissance. Yet one thing remains the same: It’s still male ...