by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
KALAMAZOO — Long before Chuck E. was the big cheese in town and prior to Dave and Buster’s arrival in Detroit and other nearby areas, Star World arcade was the place to be — every single weekend. In the 1980s, teenagers who are now in their 40s, packed the Portage...
by Andrew MacBain | Dec 18, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
iPad Magic Pinball accessory makes your tablet a table The iPad’s sizeable display does make it rather apt for games like pinball, but New Potato Tech are taking things one step further with a custom iPad “Magic Pinball” accessory. Slot in your iPad, run the game...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada
The process of grieving can be compared to the workings of a pinball machine, where mourners’ movement between different stages of grief such as shock and depression may be unpredictable, according to authors writing in September’s issue of Mental Health...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Stern Pinball’s TRON: Legacy Pinball features an incredible 3D backglass that brings the film’s characters and story to life. (Stern Pinball) How cutting edge can you get? If you’ve got the bucks, there’s a world of awe-inspiring gadgets and goodies...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner
Barry Schwartz got a job scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins in the Mall in Columbia in 1979, just so he could cash in his paychecks for quarters to feed the pinball machines in the arcade. “Pinball was a huge part of my life when I was 16,” the Ellicott...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball News, Pinball Record
There’s no question times are still tough for many small business owners. An arcade owner in Hopkins has never had it harder. Pinball is Lloyd Olson’s passion that he just can’t let go of. “It’s a work of art you can play,” said Olson, who owns SS Billiards. Olson and...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
The progression went like this. A young innocent, almost always a male, fell in love with the flashing lights, bumpers, and rolling silver spheres of a pinball machine. He skipped a class or two, figuring his time was better spent mastering flippers than French. He...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Canada, Pinball News
Nothing obvious separates the home of Brad Chamberlain from the others on this quiet, tree-lined Anaheim Hills street. Two stories, a small front yard, two-car garage. But inside, medieval knights hoist their lances. Detectives interrogate murder suspects. An annoying...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Buzz, Pinball News
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s many pretty cool looking Rock N’ Roll pinball machines made it to the local arcades. Check out some of these flyers for the pinball machines I found at The Arcade Flyer Archive. Elton John – Captain Fantastic – 1975 Ted Nugent –...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Canada, Pinball History
DEBORAH NETBURN Nine-year-old Caine Monroy is totally nonplussed by the attention his homemade cardboard arcade received this week after the short film “Caine’s Arcade” went viral on the Internet. The documentary was directed by Nirvan Mullick, an L.A. filmmaker who...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner
Tuesday night is league play night at Pins and Needles, a pinball club that Molly Atkinson runs out of her big costuming studio in Echo Park. A clamorous din of bells clanging, explosions booming, quarters dropping and hands slapping at buttons fills the room as rock...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball History
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Decades after he slept under a beloved first pinball machine wedged into his cramped apartment, David Silverman will open the nation’s largest museum dedicated to speeding silver balls and fast-motion flippers. The National Pinball Museum...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 17, 2019 | Collector's Corner
Pinball players at the 2012 NW Pinball and Arcade Show I grew up with an old pinball machine in the basement, spending countless hours knocking the silver ball against the bumpers (to the annoyance of my parents). Given that early introduction to the sport, I had to...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 16, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Canada, Pinball History
By Paul Rubens – 27th May 2012 Pinball machines were commonplace in arcades and snackbars when Koen Heltzel was a child in Roermond, The Netherlands, in the early 1990s, but by the time he had grown up and left home they had all but disappeared. Then one day in...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 16, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News
Quartermasters: Inside the World’s Last Pinball Design Shop THE X-MEN FRANCHISE IS THE LATEST POP-CULTURE PROPERTY TO GET THE STERN PINBALL TREATMENT. WHILE THE WHO’S “Pinball Wizard” still stands up after four decades of radio play, the...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 5, 2019 | Pinball Buzz
BY Lindsey Quinn Chicago Has Become the Nerve Center of Competitive Pinball. If a baseball game is like a pot brownie—a bright, lackadaisical buzz—tournament pinball is an acid trip: sweaty, 12 hours long, and seemingly devoid of narrative structure. It’s not for...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 5, 2019 | Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
By Interesting Vancouver Robert Gagno is a world champion pinball player. At 4 years old, he played his first game at Wally’s Burger (a burger joint their family frequented in Vancouver). When he turned 10, his family got him his first ever pinball machine. Robert...
by Andrew MacBain | Oct 4, 2019 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball News
Playing pinball on an iPad is fun, but it’s nowhere near as fun as actually mashing real buttons with both hands wrapped around your Transformers Pinball Machine. While the Duo Pinball iPad Controller doesn’t quite turn your tablet into a full-sized arcade box, it’s...
Punny Factory Pinball (Wood Engraved)$7,000.00
Punny Factory Pinball (Standard)$6,000.00