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more about #pinball maven2k: One more thing, we rent some space out to a friend of ours that rebuilds, repairs, and sells pinball machines, juke boxes and video games. Here's a pi... more » maven2k: I've always loved pinball. I still have the Gottlieb "wedge-head" Cowpoke machine that was the first one my dad ever bought. It takes dimes and it sti... more » infmom: When I was in college, some friends of mine discovered (I can only imagine how) that if you picked up one corner of one of the pinball machines at the... more » klew: In one event on the Jurassic Park pinball game, I got three free games in a row from the end-of-the-game "number matching" (after two previous free ga... more » rayfred13: Dude, I own This very pinball machine! how weird is that?! more » pb4ugoout: I would like to submit that pinball has not in fact faded away into the night. Perhaps in retail establishments it has seen better days but I happen t... more » ceilingFANBOY: How does the WGTTC problem exist? What benefit could a deaf dumb and blind kid get out of going to the cinema? more » PanhandleJoe: In the late '50s I worked evenings as a short-order cook. I closed the place at 8pm, mopped the floor and let my friends in. We drilled a small hole i... more » madog: Back when my family had money, we had 2 arcades and a pinball machine. Pong, The Blob, and Evil Knevil(sp?). I thought it was the greatest thing ever ... more » AlphaPepper: The linked article was lame, but still nice to see interest in pinball. I'm lucky to have 2 William's classics in my basement: Funhouse and Whirlwin... more » franco1975: This brings back memories. I love physical pinball machines. I used to skip skool , smoke , drink and make out with girls at the video arcade as i pl... more » Kris Aubuchon: When America lost the majority of its arcades I felt as though I lost a part of my soul. more » myxylplyx: It's a damn shame the fate that has befallen pinball. I literally grew up in arcades (my Dad and Uncles owned arcades and coin-op routes) and I have f... more » brobot - Beboptimus Prime: wait wait wait... this thing has been around for a while now. so what's up with the rumor shot for a picture? (pixelated, blurry, inconclusive.... I ... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: And to be quite frank, $6k isn't much more than a brand new real pin. Only, that pin will have both the real flawed physics but only play one game...... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Pinball machines, especially classic ones, are harder and harder to find. SO I will occasionally bust out pinmame to play. But, I also have a full-s... more » maven2k: I LOVE pinball and probably always will. I've played digital pinball games just for the hell of it, but they just don't hold your attention or have th... more » HighOctaneX: Medieval Madness this is not. #digitalpinball more » shooga: Ugh... There's no way this is any good. There's nothing like the feeling and sounds of a weighty iron ball smashing into things. There are some things... more » garrysim: I've got a Blackhole pinball machine and I'll tell you there is no substitute for the real thing, period. Gonna sound like one of those curmudgeons b... more » -
#retromodo
Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
There's a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. More » -
#pinball
High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
Hammacher Schlemmer's digital pinball machine crams a 720p, 32-inch display into a full-sized cabinet, and offers by way of emulation 17 classic boards. But I'm not sure pinball freaks are that interested in digitized flippers. More » -
#art
Projectors Morph Boring Building Into Giant Pinball Machine
Urban Screen, the same group behind insane 555 Kubik illusion, built a humongous, functioning pinball machine through facade projection way back in 2007. Why more architecture isn't decorated with multi-story video games, we do not know. [Urban Screen via MAKE] -
#gaming
Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
After the first Pong cabinet was placed in Andy Capp's Cavern in 1972, video games exploded, reaching their full stride by the late '70s. Here are some of the notable games/systems you played (or would have played) back then: More » -
#pinball
HDTV Pinball Machine Is Almost as Good as the Real Thing
Pinball machines are more or less a lost art, but one enthusiast really wants to bring them along for this whole "21st century" thing. Hence, the HDTV pinball machine. More » -
#pinball
The Pinball Hall of Fame Gives Me a Headache Just Thinking About It
Joystiq took a trip to Vegas' Pinball Hall of Fame, where they found popular machines, rare machines, two-player machines, and one machine with the likeness of Ted Nugent. More » -
#mini
Tiniest Vintage Arcade/Pinball Machine Models For Your Desk
You can use these shrunken game machines to decorate a quasi game lounge to entertain your non-existent train set ghostmen while they're waiting for the 12:10 to Rochester. Or you can decorate your desk. More » -
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#gaming
A Look Inside the Last Pinball Factory in the World
Did you know that there's only one manufacturer of pinball machines left in the world? That sole survivor of the pinball age is Stern Pinball, based outside of Chicago, and it's the last purveyor of this relatively low-tech entertainment left. More » -
#yeoldepinneballewizard
Medieval Pinball Machine Made out of Lego
And fie, a-surffing on ye internette, a pinneballe machyne of Leggoe did I espye. Set yorre eyyes pon yonder gallerye. Morre picture lykkeness will ye finde on TechEBlog. [TechEBlog] More »
