WASHINGTON — If you love pinball, you’ll flip for this. The man who founded D.C.’s now-closed National Pinball Museum is selling his collection of hundreds of machines, and the second in a series of ...
LAS VEGAS—When we weren’t pounding the pavement at last week’s overloaded CES trade show, we at Ars Technica took whatever opportunity we could to nerd out in uniquely Vegas style. That didn’t mean ...
It’s not only home to what Perry calls the largest collection of vintage pinball machines in the South but also serves as a hub for the Mystic Krewe of the Silver Ball, a hodgepodge band of pinball ...
Decades before videogames grabbed hold of the market, there was pinball. Even through the evolution of game technologies and the move towards the virtual, pinball managed to hold on with advancements ...
Mike Perry sits perched on the arm of a white couch inside an old church, explaining how he ended up here — in this dimly lit room surrounded by 60 pinball games that pulsate and buzz. “I was kind of ...
Pinball Hall of Fame delivers some accurate re-creations of some of Gottlieb's classic pinball tables, but the graphics get a little muddy in spots. Despite the fact that a new company has risen to ...
Believe it or not, there used to be a time when pinball machines were pretty popular. For a quarter or two, players were challenged to rack up as many points as they could. Players learned to nudge ...
NORTH HILLS- Stephen Scohy’s North Hills basement is a step back in time. The walls are adorned with late 1970s, early 1980s memorabilia including glass placards advertising arcade games, candy and ...
On Rides, we love checking out old cars, trucks or really anything with a motor and a story, but we also want to see What’s In Your Garage. So this week Jay heads to Roger Neshem’s shop to run through ...
The glory days of the arcades may be over, but pinball lives on in “Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection.” It is hard to believe that in the era of first person frag-fests that a collection ...
It began with one bingo pinball machine Butch Glauda got when he was a teenager. “My uncle (Michael Joseph) bought me my first one when I was 17,” he said. Butch Glauda, of Pottsville, Pa., talks ...
The further the game industry progresses, the stranger playing pinball on modern consoles becomes. But it's as though technological wonders such as Half-Life 2 or Halo 2 take anything from a classic ...