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.

Chris Kooluris turned his New York City apartment into an arcade. He didn’t do it to collect quarters. The 40-year-old creative strategist is a pinball obsessive. In the center of his living room ...

Pinball is also a spectator sport. Put in the quarters, the oversized ball bearing shoots into the “ball launch” trough, pull back the launch lever and the ball rolls into action while the scores ring ...

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.

CONCORD —It’s considered somewhat cliché among pinball enthusiasts to reference The Who’s 1969 rock anthem “Pinball Wizard” during high-stakes events like Saturday’s state championship tournament at ...

You can play a pinball machine forever and not have a pinball hit at a more perfect angle than this. Look at it bounce back and forth and back and forth and back and forth forever between a bumper and ...

The arcade may not be as thriving and widespread as it once was, but the lack of public places to play pinball hasn’t killed the mighty machine just yet. In fact, it’s experiencing a second ...

In tracing the evolution of pinball, we’ve journeyed through decades of innovation, from the simple mechanics of its early days to the intricate designs of today. Pinball machine, also known as ...