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Building a pinball machine is not an easy task. It requires years of experience and accumulated knowledge to get the intricacies right and ensure both precision and robustness.Read More

Do you play pinball using The Pinball Arcade? If you do, you will notice some big changes over the coming weeks as the platform is about to lose many big and popular pinball tables. As you can probably predict, this is due to licensing arrangements.Read More

Modern pinball games first started to appear in the 1930s, but they were very different to the machines we have today. Specifically, they didn't have flippers. Instead, you simply launched the ball into the playfield. It would then roll down to a scoring zone, bumping into pins in the playfield along the way (this is where the term pinball comes from).Read More

Star Wars pinball machines are popular, even among those who are not ardent fans of the movie franchise. Now there are two more games to add to the list.Read More

We all have our own personal pinball stories to tell – the first time we remember playing, the last time we played, our favorite pinball machine, the best game we ever played, the highest score we've ever achieved, etc.Read More

3D Pinball for Windows–Space Cadet was a virtual pinball table that first appeared with Windows 95. As it was bundled with Windows, millions of people got the chance to play it – until Windows Vista came out in 2007, that is. After that, it simply disappeared.Read More

There are lots of different terms you will quickly learn when you start playing pinball more often. Some of them will already be familiar to you from when you played pinball as a youth. This includes bumpers.Read More

Pinball machines and the clothing brand Supreme do not often appear in the same sentence. That changed this week though, albeit temporarily.Read More

The terminology used in pinball can be difficult to understand if you are a beginner. This terminology covers everything from the various parts of a pinball machine to the types of shot you can use.Read More