While rinky-dink arcade games typically sell for the price of a used tablet, Jordan’s pinball machine set him back nearly $10 ...

Coin-operated pinball machines were first introduced in the 1930s, also known as “pin games,” in which a player would launch a ball with a plunger through a series of metal pins in order to ...

But the first machines to resemble pinball as we know it — pegs, coin-operated play — appeared in the 1930s, with the Chicago-based company Gottlieb. Its success led to dozens of imitators ...

When the Pacific Pinball Museum first opened in 2004, it was technically illegal to operate a pinball arcade in Alameda County. Pinball had long been associated with the mafia and vices like gambling, ...

It’s almost 6 pm, and flashes of multicolored light burst from pinball machines lined up inside two back rooms of this Glassell Park comic book shop that — much like the Tardis in “Dr.

After purchasing his first pinball machine 20 years ago, Yates and his wife, Kimberly, decided to bring the pinball rental concept to Tulsa after visiting a family friend in Denver who had started ...