Long before there were games like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong, there was a game that kids couldn't wait to get their hands on: pinball While the popularity of the games had gone down over time with the ...

Ever since he was a young boy, Adam McKinnie played the “silver ball.” Now, at age 39, he’s a “Pinball Wizard,” a la The Who’s 1969 rock hit. “Oh, that term,” McKinnie said with a grin. “We can never ...

To call “Spittin’ ” Jerry Kaczmarek one of the best to ever play a now-vanished type of pinball game known as a bingo machine is to do him a disservice, he says. “I was the best pinball machine player ...

Pinball was once considered immoral, a countercultural pursuit to be played in seedy spaces.

Success spawns spin-offs, and the success of Jakks Pacific's TV Games series of plug-and-play controllers has spawned video pinball: Classic Arcade Pinball is a compilation of three original pinball ...