Pinball Wizards of Orange County
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...
Vintage Rock N’ Roll Pinball Machines
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 –...
Caine’s Arcade: This is serious business for 9-year-old Caine Monroy
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...
Pinball fans flip over Pins and Needles in Echo Park
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...
Nation’s largest pinball museum to open in Baltimore
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 will...
Wacky weekend fun: Pinball mania arrives in Seattle
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...
Pinball machines were commonplace in arcades
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 2007...
Inside the World’s Last Pinball Design Shop
Quartermasters: Inside the World's Last Pinball Design Shop THE X-MEN FRANCHISE IS THE LATEST POP-CULTURE PROPERTY TO GET THE STERN PINBALL TREATMENT. WHILE THE WHO'S "Pinball Wizard" still stands up after four decades of radio play, the designers of the pinball...
Duo Pinball Turns iPad Into A Mini Pinball Cabinet
Playing pinball on an iPad is fun, but it’s nowhere near as fun as actually mashing real buttons with both hands wrapped around your Transformers Pinball Machine. While the Duo Pinball iPad Controller doesn’t quite turn your tablet into a full-sized arcade box, it’s...
PinBox 3000 Is An All-Cardboard Pinball Game With A Customizable Play Board
We’ve already seen foosball and table tennis games done up entirely in cardboard, giving you the benefit of full-featured playroom games with the ability to fold up inside a closet. This time around, you can enjoy those same benefits in a full-featured pinball game...
Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome
By Adam Frucci - GIZMODO This is the Transparent Pinball Machine, a custom piece created out of a 1976 "Surf Champ" unit by Michael Schiess, owner of the Lucky JuJu Pinball Arcade in Alameda, CA (which looks like the coolest place ever). The traditional wood cabinets...
Kalamazoo’s Star World Amusement is keeping classic arcade games alive
By Kelle Barr | Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette 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,...
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...
Hot Touch Arcade Emulator
Hot Touch Arcade Emulator: Digital pinball machine that accepts real coins?! 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...
Jersey’s Pinball Wizard
By Inside Jersey Staff By Ryan Goldberg There 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...
Turn an Old Pinball Machine Into a Badass Coffee Table
Published Sep 28, 2010 at 4:35 PM | Updated at 5:37 PM PDT on Sep 28, 2010 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...
Nike LCD Pinball Machine
Nike LCD Pinball Machine 10:33 am July 5, 2010 By Julian Horsey 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...
Law Banning Pinball Shuts Down Retro Arcade
TOM GOLDMAN | 9 AUGUST 2010 3:12 PM 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...
Chicago: Pinball’s capital and last best hope
Once the manufacturing capital for the world’s pinball machines, Chicago is now the last, best hope for those loud and gaudy electronic games BY J. C. GABEL PUBLISHED MARCH 17, 2010 Roger Sharpe’s two sons, Joshua and Zachary, are ranked among the world’s top...
Pinball App: Slayer Pinball Rocks app Slams iPad With Skulls, Screams
Hey, pinball wizards: There's nothing subtle about the new Slayer: Pinball Rocks app. THE WORLD OF iPad apps just got a whole lot more metal with the launch of Slayer: Pinball Rocks. This new game features an animated skull that eats your ball and spits it out through...
White Rock man’s pinball record disputed by North Vancouver promoter
By BRENT RICHTER, NORTH SHORE NEWS 09.11.2015 NORTH VANCOUVER — There's a new pinball wizard in the land, although the title is very much in dispute. White Rock resident Eden Stamm played for 40 hours at the Lamplighter Public House, between Tuesday and Thursday...
Novelty Dock Turns iPhone into Mini Pinball Machine
Who doesn't love them some simulated pinball action? Me, that's who, but I still like this tiny little box that turns your iPhone into a miniature pinball table: It's so cute. The dock can be bought at BestBuy for $40, and works with a free pinball game available in...
Dream Dies as Museum of Pinball Goes TILT
By PETER APPLEBOME BEACON, N.Y. You might think that in a town marketing its past, there would be plenty of room for Fred Bobrow’s Retro Arcade Museum, a nostalgic swath of analog pleasure in a digital world. But then sometimes the only thing more retro than an old...
B.C. pinball champ sets Guinness World Record
September 8, 2015 By Jon Azpiri Online News Producer: Global News B.C.’s Eden Stamm has his sights on setting a world record for the longest pinball marathon. “Some people might think it’s kind of crazy,” said Stamm. “It’s going to be a pretty long stretch.” Just how...
