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.

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 ...

The arcade as we once knew it is dead, but pinball is making a comeback–at least according to the companies who make the machines. The BBC’s Paul Rubens reports: Gary Stern, president of Stern Pinball ...

Stern has picked up a number of amazing licenses to work with when it comes to creating new pinball machines over the years, and with each new machine, it seems to top itself. The latest crème de la ...

On a Tuesday night at Logan Arcade, a bar on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Ian, a 57-year-old assistant manager, looks at the Rick and Morty pinball machine. “This is a frustrating machine,” he says. He ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (Portland Tribune) — Hillsboro’s Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum is trying to make it two years in a row as a winner in a prestigious award category for the tight-knit global pinball ...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – In an era of digital gaming, a Brunswick arcade is proving that the classic appeal of pinball is far from game over. Pinball Palace, recently named Brunswick’s Small Business of the ...

The following pinball factoids have been combined from KUOW's Today So Far newsletters from May 31, June 1, and June 2, 2023. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, something struck me as odd. "Where are ...

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 ...