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 ...

“The city is to pinball and coin-op video games as Detroit is to automobiles,” said Gary Stern, CEO of Stern Pinball Inc., a company that’s made electronic games in some form or another ...

A Stern pinball machine, which takes roughly 16 months to design and 30 hours to assemble, includes 3,500 parts and a quarter-mile of wires — and it's all hand-crafted.

Once the manufacturing capital for the world’s pinball machines, Chicago is now the last, best hope for those loud and gaudy electronic games By J. C. Gabel March 17, 2010, 11:52 am ...

Pinball is having a renaissance, and that's good news for Stern Pinball in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. By: Ben Schamisso Posted 2:42 PM, Dec 08, 2023 and last updated 5:45 AM, Dec 09, 2023 ...