Usually that stuff is clothing, construction materials, and the like, but I managed to score a vintage electromechanical pinball machine playfield recently and it was one of my greatest junkyard ...

Based in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Stern Pinball is the largest manufacturer of pinball machines in the world, employing hundreds of people and regarded for its innovation in the industry.

Yet it has always come back, today again riding a wave of popularity driven by the successes of high-tech machines capitalizing on familiar brands like X-Men and Godzilla. Pinball arcades are ...

"I just like bringing them back from the dead – they give a lot of harmless fun," said Mark Squires A man who has fixed more than 500 pinball machines from the converted double garage of his ...

There’s a quarter mile of wire and 3,500 components in each pinball machine, and it takes about 30 hours of work to finish assembling one. They are methodically inspected every step of the way.

If you haven’t played a pinball machine made in, oh, the last 15 years or so, you might not know how advanced they’ve become. Expect high-def screens on backglasses running constant video ...

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 ...

Pinball machines available to play at VÜK, located at D.C.'s Chevy Chase Pavilion in Friendship Heights. (WTOP/Jeff Clabaugh) MOM’s Organic Market founder Scott Nash has been playing pinball ...