ROUND ROCK - It's mostly quiet on the warehouse assembly floor off Interstate 35 just north of Austin. A half-dozen or so assemblers, each working at their own station, are silently piecing together ...
The Museum of Pinball was only open for nine days a year in pre-Covid times, but when it was open, it glowed like – well, like an arcade in its neon-lit heyday. Pinball machines may be relegated now ...
Pinball is undergoing a major resurgence right now – a silverball renaissance, if you will. While manufacturers like Stern and Chicago Gaming Company are releasing new titles based on major franchises ...
It’s deceptively simple. Pull the plunger by its flying-saucer-shaped handle, and hear that satisfying clack. Watch the silver marble roll around the playfield, and wing it with your flippers. Come up ...
Chicago — Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude ...
Chicago has been a pinball manufacturing powerhouse. The Flip spotlights the city’s history with a museum of playable games.
A full working set of Australian-made pinball machines will enter the collection of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), including designs featuring cricket legend Dennis Lillee, the FJ Holden ...