In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...

[Quinn Dunki] has come to realize the pinball machines of her youth aren’t the lame games she remembered. They’re actually quite marvelous in terms of electronics, mechanics, engineering and the all ...

Michael Bells is the manager of an arcade repair shop. He travels around the state repairing arcade cabinets, from ancient ...

At a high point in pinball’s popularity, a rock opera and a movie were made about it. Mesa pinball machine restorer and collector Bruce Artman recalls those days with vivid imagery. Now it seems ...

Growing up, Brian Soares was never a pinball guy. The Attleboro native remembers playing a game or two over the years, but that was about it. These days, the basement of this 50-year-old’s Norton ...

FRAMINGHAM – Like a master mechanic looking under the hood of a car, Stuart Bloomstein lifted the play field of a pinball machine to expose its anatomy: the wiring and switches, the chimes and coils.

The Red Hook Pinball Museum is really a museum to two things: pinball, and the friendship of its co-founders, Kevin Murray ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--Bumpers, bells, whistles and screams; all are sounds from pinball machines. The games first made their debut in the late 1940s, taking over arcades, pool halls and bowling alleys.

If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...

FEASTERVILLE — Don’t talk to Russ Snyder about the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360. For Snyder, there is nothing like the sound and feel of a classic electromechanical pinball ...

The Tallahassee Antiques and Collectibles Club that originated in the early 1980s as the Glass Club will open its calendar year with a free presentation by Rob McDole, authority on arcade and pinball ...

Myrtle Beach residents will soon have a place to relive the 1980s and 90s. The Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum on 27th Avenue North is scheduled to open on June 1. At this museum, the exhibits are ...