Game of skills or evil gambling? It is hard to believe that there was a long period in the history of arcade games when pinball machines, these amazing mixtures of art, design, engineering, technology ...

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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 ...

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 ...

At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, the first blinking, brightly lit machine to catch my eye is “El Dorado,” a 1970s-era game, replete with bucking horses and cowboys, that once made an ...

HOLT - Amid his collection of 15 pinball and electro-mechanical cabinets, Ryan Claytor's 1972 Swinger machine is his point-of-pride project. It was dead when Claytor picked it up from the former owner ...

The lure of devices offering a quick payout has captured the curiosity and coins of Virginians for over a century. And for just as long, law enforcement officials have targeted those very devices, ...

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 ...