HPD raids arcades, seize dozens of gaming machines
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Authorities in Honolulu are trying to stay ahead of the game when it comes to controversial video arcade games that have been popping up over the last couple of years. The Honolulu Police Department and City Prosecutor's Office are doubling...
The World Before Pong
The World Before Pong You can't say that video games grew out of pinball,but you can assume that video games wouldn't have happened without it. It's Like bicycles and automobiles. One industry leads to the other and then they exist side by side.But you to have...
Why People Flip Over Vintage Pinball Machines
Why People Flip Over Vintage Pinball Machines By Maribeth Keane and Ben Marks — September 16th, 2009 Clay Harrell talks about collecting vintage pinball machines, and his personal road to pinball wizardry, from Gottlieb to Williams to Stern. He can be reached...
History of pinball
The origins of pinball are intertwined with the history of many other games. Games played outdoors by rolling balls or stones on a grass course, such as Bocce or Bowls , eventually evolved into games played by hitting the balls with sticks and propelling them at...
THE EEL MEETS PINBALL GEOFF
THE EEL MEETS PINBALL GEOFF January 3, 2010 by EEL COLLECTIVE “I’ve always been called Pinball Geoff ever since I was a young boy and played the silver ball.” So says Geoffrey Harvey of Stoke Newington- an avid collector of everything from armadillos to...
For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over
For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over By MONICA DAVEYAPRIL 25, 2008 MELROSE PARK, Ill. — Being inside a pinball machine factory sounds exactly as you think it would. Across a 40,000-square-foot warehouse here, a cheery cacophony of flippers flip, bells...
The History of the Pinball Construction Set: Launching Millions of Creative Possibilities
The History of the Pinball Construction Set: Launching Millions of Creative Possibilities Matt Barton, Bill Loguidice February 6, 2009 Here, the duo presents a history of Pinball Construction Set, one of the earliest and most accessible examples of a game that...
PUNNY FACTORY
Andrew MacBain is not afraid of a challenge. Besides running the successful Pigeon Patrol bird control business for the past twelve years just across the US border near Vancouver , Canada, and a prime-time appearance on Dragon’s Den (link viewable in Canada only) for...
First Solid-State Pinball
Until the 1970s, no pinball machine had any sort of computerization. Instead, the electromechanical games ran on a precarious balance of moving parts, with their guts resembling giant Rube Goldberg machines. But beginning in 1977, manufacturers began running their...
Things you didn’t know about pinball history
The surprising history behind a beloved American pastime. By Seth Porges Sept 2009 Pinball Was Illegal Pinball was banned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America's big cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, where the game was born and...
Chicago: Pinball’s capital and last best hope
Roger Sharpe’s two sons, Joshua and Zachary, are ranked among the world’s top five pinball players, and, like their father, they collect vintage games, which they display in Joshua’s basement arcade. It’s a surprising link with the city’s past—the pinball machine, the...
Law Banning Pinball Shuts Down Retro Arcade
An ancient pinball ban was actually enforced in the town of Beacon, New York, shutting down a local business. Fred Bobrow's Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, New York seems like an awesome place. He's got hundreds of pinball and arcade games that date back to as early as...
Nike LCD Pinball Machine
Nike has created an LCD Pinball Machine to advertise their wares as part of their ‘Write the Future’ campaign for the World Cup. It look very impressive in the video but I’m not sure it will capture the same gameplay as an old style mechanical pinball machine. Watch...
Turn an Old Pinball Machine Into a Badass Coffee Table
Turn an Old Pinball Machine Into a Badass Coffee Table Love pinball? Looking for a new coffee table? Well, why not combine your love of pinball with your need for new living room furniture? If you've got a non-functioning pinball machine available to you,...
Jersey’s pinball wizard
Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerThere are pinball machines from the 1930 to 2000s at the Silverball Museum Pinball Hall of Fame in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It’s four days until the Fourth of July, and Rob Ilvento is scrambling, twirling cotton candy for customers one...
Ben Heck chose to make his Bill Paxton pinball machine
Ben Heck chose to make his Bill Paxton pinball machine the old fashioned way, using actual flippers and tunnels and whatnot. But there’s also another, less complicated way to make a pinball machine – by running an emulator on a computer. But “less complicated” doesn’t...
goodbye to Old Coney Island
By KEVIN WALSH and DAVID S. ALLEE One by one, the venerable institutions of old Coney Island are vanishing. Ruby’s, the last of the boardwalk-facing bars, has served its final drink; Shoot the Freak, one of the most popular game booths, won’t reopen in the spring. And...
Kalamazoo’s Star World Amusement is keeping classic arcade games alive
KALAMAZOO — Long before Chuck E. was the big cheese in town and prior to Dave and Buster’s arrival in Detroit and other nearby areas, Star World arcade was the place to be — every single weekend. In the 1980s, teenagers who are now in their 40s, packed the Portage...
iPad Magic Pinball accessory makes your tablet a table
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...
stages of grief such as shock and depression may be un
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...
How cutting edge can you get?
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 out there for you....
Howard Co. pinball enthusiasts relive past, keep hobby alive
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 City...
Hopkins Arcade Owner Using Pinball Machines To Stay Afloat
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...
Prudish About Pinball
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...
