A competitive player, builder and part-time technician of pinball machines, Kalyn Smith edges toward 150,000,000 points on Stern's 2021 "Mandalorian" during a June 15, 2023 tournament.

Pinball has a history that stretches back to France in the 1600s. Over the centuries, the game has certainly evolved, but at the end of the day, the mechanics and gameplay remain largely the same.

In the 1950s, two pinball suppliers waged war against each other. The Amusement Association of Seattle (AAS) teamed up with a local union who heavily suggested (aka forced) bars to carry AAS machines.

The sounds, the feel, the flashing lights, there is nothing quite like a pinball machine.And there is nothing quite like The ...

Games of chance like slot machines and pinball machines were found in Sioux Falls as early as the 1930s. They were likely here earlier, but not labeled as vice until later.

Patrons of Bang Back Pinball Lounge in Columbia play pinball tables. Pinball supporters want to repeal a current law that bans minors from playing the machines.

W HEN MOST people think of pinball, if they think of it at all, they probably imagine an old, unloved machine, starved of coins and gathering dust in the back of a bar or pizza parlour as its ...

Graylands and Kreuzkamp bought their first second-hand pinball machine in 2014, a table called Hardbody that dates back to 1987.It cost $800, and Graylands said they "played the hell out of it." ...

A pinball diehard has converted her Park Slope abode into a plinky-plonky paradise and will pull off a NYC pinball first: She’s hosting the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) st… ...

But because of its cultural ubiquity, there are plenty of cursed pinball machines out there, and that now includes one based on the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the United States Capitol ...

The Columbus Metropolitan Library has teamed up with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to launch the free "Part of the Machine: Rock and Pinball" exhibition, which begins March 4 at the main branch ...