It’s getting ever harder to build a truly unique digital clock. From electronic displays to the flip-dots and flip-cards, everything seems to have been done to death. But this pinball scoring reel ...

LEXINGTON — While in Columbia last month opening for Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies lead singer Ed Robertson ran a few errands. He got his hair cut — and he bought spare parts for his ...

South Carolina has lost one of its pinball wizards. Marc Mandeltort, who founded an internationally renowned pinball machine parts company, died Dec. 19 “peacefully in his sleep,” his family said. He ...

Williams says the PinSim is an exact replica of the first eight inches of a standard-width pinball machine, complete with flipper buttons on the right and left side, a glowing red launch button, and a ...

Stern Pinball turns 30 this year, and the last of the major pinball creators in the world decided to celebrate with a blowout party this month. The pinball creator is hosting an anniversary party at ...

Pinball machines are a study in distraction, throwing up bright bells and whistles in order to distract the player from where their ball's location. But behind the sights and sounds, simple mechanics ...

Tim Arnold has been collecting and repairing rare pinball machines for decades. Now he’s looking for a protege to take the reins – otherwise it’s game over Tim Arnold prizes his pinball machines.

In the late 1980s and early '90s, if you lost a quarter to a mercilessly tough pinball machine, you likely lost it to a game designed by one of the four big players: Stern, Williams, Bally, or ...