SUPERIOR — With his knees bent and one foot slightly in front of the other, Parnell Lutz, of Duluth, hunched over a pinball machine in Average’s Joe’s pub in Superior. The game he’s focused on is ...

If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...

Man, if you get a chance, do it. I recently picked up a good machine from the mid-80s for about $500. It was playable, but needed a little work (some cleanup, some adjustment, a couple of minor fixes) ...

In our high-tech world, it’s easy to forget the joy of things that aren’t on the internet. One of those is pinball.

The sounds, the lights, and even the satisfying feel of the flipper in action easily explain why pinball remains popular to this day. But like Adrian Atwood, few of us have the room for a full-size ...

Stern has picked up a number of amazing licenses to work with when it comes to creating new pinball machines over the years, and with each new machine, it seems to top itself. The latest crème de la ...

Correspondent photo / Maurita Hoffman Marcelo Blanco flanked by pinball machines from the 1970s, available to be played at Past Times arcade in Girard. Blanco was born in Argentina and is world ...

It’s deceptively simple. Pull the plunger by its flying-saucer-shaped handle, and hear that satisfying clack. Watch the silver marble roll around the playfield, and wing it with your flippers. Come up ...

What Makes a Great Pinball Game? Before we dive into the top 20 pinball machines, let’s break down what makes a game truly legendary and give you some direction on what to look for when hunting for a ...