Mark Coward of San Luis Obispo takes a turn on a 1977 Dragon pinball machine Friday during the first day of Pin-A-Go-Go at the Dixon May Fair. The three-day event featuring pinball machines from six ...

EVEN THOUGH Michael Schiess owns more than 200 vintage pinball machines, he will tell you he is no collector. Collectors, he says, collect things that collect dust. “I am a curator. That’s the way I ...

LAS VEGAS — Manny Alvarez hunches over the 1977 vintage pinball machine Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, pulls back the plunger and sends the silver ball shooting onto the playfield maze ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, if you lost a quarter to a mercilessly tough pinball machine, you likely lost it to a game designed by one of the four big players: Stern, Williams, Bally, or ...

Stern Pinball is a household name when it comes to the pinball game. Founded in 1977 to offer both pinball and video arcades titles such as Berzerk (under the company Stern Electronics), Stern has ...

A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike. The echoes of arcade game history fill the otherwise quiet Aviation Mall – they’re coming from Arcade ...

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 ding, bumpers ...