A virtual pinball machine sounds like a really good idea. No less then 17 tables, on a LCD display (so the playfield doesn’t wear out). Best yet, the virtual pinball machine has some of the most ...

The seeds of the pinball industry were planted in 1871, when Montague Redgrave of Cincinnati worked some revisions on a popular game of the time and called it “Improvements in Bagatelle,” which ...

To hang with the Crazy Flipper Fingers is easy. Pull up a bar stool, talk away and drink tall boys. To be a member of Portland's notorious pinball gang, however, takes patience. Not even favoritism ...

Once a staple of cafes and student bars, pinball has now been sidelined by video games. But in one nanotechnology lab the game is experiencing a revival, thanks to an “atomic pinball machine”. Two ...

There was a time, not so long ago, when pinball was considered evil, a magnet for organized crime and gambling, a rolling silver ball to hell. So much so that the City of New York officially banned ...

In a previous life, James Austin was a Porsche-racing electrical engineer who worked on classified military projects and, in retirement, settled down to become a pinball and video game technician.