by Andrew MacBain | Apr 29, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Authorities in Honolulu are trying to stay ahead of the game when it comes to controversial video arcade games that have been popping up over the last couple of years. The Honolulu Police Department and City Prosecutor’s Office...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 5, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
The World Before Pong You can’t say that video games grew out of pinball,but you can assume that video games wouldn’t have happened without it. It’s Like bicycles and automobiles. One industry leads to the other and then they exist side by side.But...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Why People Flip Over Vintage Pinball Machines By Maribeth Keane and Ben Marks — September 16th, 2009 Clay Harrell talks about collecting vintage pinball machines, and his personal road to pinball wizardry, from Gottlieb to Williams to Stern. He can be reached...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball Record
The origins of pinball are intertwined with the history of many other games. Games played outdoors by rolling balls or stones on a grass course, such as Bocce or Bowls , eventually evolved into games played by hitting the balls with sticks and propelling them at...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball News, Pinball Record
THE EEL MEETS PINBALL GEOFF January 3, 2010 by EEL COLLECTIVE “I’ve always been called Pinball Geoff ever since I was a young boy and played the silver ball.” So says Geoffrey Harvey of Stoke Newington- an avid collector of everything from armadillos to...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Buzz, Pinball History, Pinball News
For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over By MONICA DAVEYAPRIL 25, 2008 MELROSE PARK, Ill. — Being inside a pinball machine factory sounds exactly as you think it would. Across a 40,000-square-foot warehouse here, a cheery cacophony of flippers flip, bells...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
The History of the Pinball Construction Set: Launching Millions of Creative Possibilities Matt Barton, Bill Loguidice February 6, 2009 Here, the duo presents a history of Pinball Construction Set, one of the earliest and most accessible examples of a game that...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Andrew MacBain is not afraid of a challenge. Besides running the successful Pigeon Patrol bird control business for the past twelve years just across the US border near Vancouver , Canada, and a prime-time appearance on Dragon’s Den (link viewable in Canada only) for...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Until the 1970s, no pinball machine had any sort of computerization. Instead, the electromechanical games ran on a precarious balance of moving parts, with their guts resembling giant Rube Goldberg machines. But beginning in 1977, manufacturers began running their...
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Seth Porges Aug 5, 2008 First With a Mechanical “Tilt” Brokers Tip /// 1933 /// D. Gottlieb & Co. Early pinball machines, which became immensely popular in a Depression-scourged America looking for cheap entertainment, were built without flippers....
by Andrew MacBain | Jan 4, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
The surprising history behind a beloved American pastime. By Seth Porges Sept 2009 Pinball Was Illegal Pinball was banned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s in most of America’s big cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, where the game was born...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Roger Sharpe’s two sons, Joshua and Zachary, are ranked among the world’s top five pinball players, and, like their father, they collect vintage games, which they display in Joshua’s basement arcade. It’s a surprising link with the city’s past—the pinball machine, the...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
An ancient pinball ban was actually enforced in the town of Beacon, New York, shutting down a local business. Fred Bobrow’s Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, New York seems like an awesome place. He’s got hundreds of pinball and arcade games that date back to...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Nike has created an LCD Pinball Machine to advertise their wares as part of their ‘Write the Future’ campaign for the World Cup. It look very impressive in the video but I’m not sure it will capture the same gameplay as an old style mechanical pinball machine. Watch...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Turn an Old Pinball Machine Into a Badass Coffee Table Love pinball? Looking for a new coffee table? Well, why not combine your love of pinball with your need for new living room furniture? If you’ve got a non-functioning pinball machine available to you,...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerThere are pinball machines from the 1930 to 2000s at the Silverball Museum Pinball Hall of Fame in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It’s four days until the Fourth of July, and Rob Ilvento is scrambling, twirling cotton candy for customers one...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Ben Heck chose to make his Bill Paxton pinball machine the old fashioned way, using actual flippers and tunnels and whatnot. But there’s also another, less complicated way to make a pinball machine – by running an emulator on a computer. But “less complicated” doesn’t...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
By KEVIN WALSH and DAVID S. ALLEE One by one, the venerable institutions of old Coney Island are vanishing. Ruby’s, the last of the boardwalk-facing bars, has served its final drink; Shoot the Freak, one of the most popular game booths, won’t reopen in the spring. And...
Punny Factory Pinball (Wood Engraved)$7,000.00
Punny Factory Pinball (Standard)$6,000.00