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 ...

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For some people it reminds them of the good old days, others have never played it before, and a lot of people are just bored right now. Whatever the reason, the pinball scene is growing here and it's ...

This story was originally published on May 3, 2019. Pinball is surging in popularity across the country. Here in Northeast Ohio, casual players are rediscovering once forgotten games. And there’s a ...

Jan. 23—The clicks, dings, chimes and buzzers from old pinball machines are music to Paul Hodges' ears — not only because they were the soundtrack to his childhood in Skowhegan, but also because for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants stand at pinball machines on the first day of a tournament in Germany. Once written off as relics of smoky pubs, ...

[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 ...

It’s a rainy Monday morning and Doug Clark is making a house call—an early but otherwise average start to his week. He parks in the circle driveway of a lookalike home in a suburban subdivision, grabs ...

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 ...

Behind the counter at Porter’s Pinball Parlor on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine, proprietor Brian Porter has erected a shrine of sorts, a series of questions and answers noting important moments in ...