Inside the basement, spaceship-themed Galactix arcade in Astoria, visitors will find several games that come with a bit of local lore. Players can try Polybius, inspired by the urban legend about a ...

Pokéball: Meet silver ball.

For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the ...

Dr. Chuck Ells from the 45TV Institute of Laughter and Tanner Walters, an Eagan teacher who uses pinball to teach S.T.E.M., talked about an event benefitting Project Pinball, a nonprofit that places ...

K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

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 Stein’s ...

Those of us beyond a certain age will very likely have some fond memories of many an hour spent and pocket money devoured feeding the local arcade pinball machine. At one time they seemed to be pretty ...

I’ve always enjoyed digital pinball on a variety of systems. Particularly the recreation of physical machines in digital form as these tables had months and months of development and design time ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. — It began with one bingo pinball machine Butch Glauda got when he was a teenager. “My uncle (Michael Joseph) bought me my first one when I was 17,” he said. Glauda, 81, got the Yacht ...

What Makes a Great Pinball Game? Before we dive into the top 20 pinball machines, let’s break down what makes a game truly legendary and give you some direction on what to look for when hunting for a ...