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 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...
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, 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 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...