by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
KALAMAZOO — Long before Chuck E. was the big cheese in town and prior to Dave and Buster’s arrival in Detroit and other nearby areas, Star World arcade was the place to be — every single weekend. In the 1980s, teenagers who are now in their 40s, packed the Portage...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
iPad Magic Pinball accessory makes your tablet a table The iPad’s sizeable display does make it rather apt for games like pinball, but New Potato Tech are taking things one step further with a custom iPad “Magic Pinball” accessory. Slot in your iPad, run the game...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada
The process of grieving can be compared to the workings of a pinball machine, where mourners’ movement between different stages of grief such as shock and depression may be unpredictable, according to authors writing in September’s issue of Mental Health...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Stern Pinball’s TRON: Legacy Pinball features an incredible 3D backglass that brings the film’s characters and story to life. (Stern Pinball) How cutting edge can you get? If you’ve got the bucks, there’s a world of awe-inspiring gadgets and goodies...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner
Barry Schwartz got a job scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins in the Mall in Columbia in 1979, just so he could cash in his paychecks for quarters to feed the pinball machines in the arcade. “Pinball was a huge part of my life when I was 16,” the Ellicott...