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...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball News, Pinball Record
There’s no question times are still tough for many small business owners. An arcade owner in Hopkins has never had it harder. Pinball is Lloyd Olson’s passion that he just can’t let go of. “It’s a work of art you can play,” said Olson, who owns SS Billiards. Olson and...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
The progression went like this. A young innocent, almost always a male, fell in love with the flashing lights, bumpers, and rolling silver spheres of a pinball machine. He skipped a class or two, figuring his time was better spent mastering flippers than French. He...