by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner
Tuesday night is league play night at Pins and Needles, a pinball club that Molly Atkinson runs out of her big costuming studio in Echo Park. A clamorous din of bells clanging, explosions booming, quarters dropping and hands slapping at buttons fills the room as rock...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball History
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Decades after he slept under a beloved first pinball machine wedged into his cramped apartment, David Silverman will open the nation’s largest museum dedicated to speeding silver balls and fast-motion flippers. The National Pinball Museum...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner
Pinball players at the 2012 NW Pinball and Arcade Show I grew up with an old pinball machine in the basement, spending countless hours knocking the silver ball against the bumpers (to the annoyance of my parents). Given that early introduction to the sport, I had to...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 16, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Canada, Pinball History
By Paul Rubens – 27th May 2012 Pinball machines were commonplace in arcades and snackbars when Koen Heltzel was a child in Roermond, The Netherlands, in the early 1990s, but by the time he had grown up and left home they had all but disappeared. Then one day in...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 16, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
Quartermasters: Inside the World’s Last Pinball Design Shop THE X-MEN FRANCHISE IS THE LATEST POP-CULTURE PROPERTY TO GET THE STERN PINBALL TREATMENT. WHILE THE WHO’S “Pinball Wizard” still stands up after four decades of radio play, the...