Arcades during the 1980s were the place to be. The digitized siren songs of newly developing computer arcade games mixed with the bells, whistles, thumps, and flipper flaps of the long-established ...

The seeds of the pinball industry were planted in 1871, when Montague Redgrave of Cincinnati worked some revisions on a popular game of the time and called it “Improvements in Bagatelle,” which ...

A virtual pinball machine sounds like a really good idea. No less then 17 tables, on a LCD display (so the playfield doesn’t wear out). Best yet, the virtual pinball machine has some of the most ...

Once a staple of cafes and student bars, pinball has now been sidelined by video games. But in one nanotechnology lab the game is experiencing a revival, thanks to an “atomic pinball machine”. Two ...

If you are from the 1960’s or 1970’s we know you would have enjoyed furiously punching the buttons of a pin ball machine back in the day. Installation artist [Niklas Roy] recently revisited this old ...

Do you remember those building toys called K'Nex? Well an engineering student at the University of Colorado (CU) named Andrew most certainly does. He actually managed to build a fully-functional ...