by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Canada, Pinball News
Nothing obvious separates the home of Brad Chamberlain from the others on this quiet, tree-lined Anaheim Hills street. Two stories, a small front yard, two-car garage. But inside, medieval knights hoist their lances. Detectives interrogate murder suspects. An annoying...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Buzz, Pinball News
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s many pretty cool looking Rock N’ Roll pinball machines made it to the local arcades. Check out some of these flyers for the pinball machines I found at The Arcade Flyer Archive. Elton John – Captain Fantastic – 1975 Ted Nugent –...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Canada, Pinball History
DEBORAH NETBURN Nine-year-old Caine Monroy is totally nonplussed by the attention his homemade cardboard arcade received this week after the short film “Caine’s Arcade” went viral on the Internet. The documentary was directed by Nirvan Mullick, an L.A. filmmaker who...
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...