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Keeping the ball out of the drains on a pinball table is the name of the game. Only when you do this can you work on building a good score. What happens, however, if the ball is heading for the drain?Read More

Pinball has crossed paths with rock and roll on many occasions, with the music genre being the theme for many pinball machines. This close relationship is now being celebrated with a new exhibition at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.Read More

Warren Buffet and pinball machines are not often used in the same sentence. Did you know, however, that Buffet used to be in the pinball business? In fact, he describes that business as the best he has ever had.Read More

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