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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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...