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Pinball on location, Down Under style

Pinball HQ is the brainchild of Norbert Snicer, a veteran of the Australian coin-op scene [...]
Is pinball about to stage a recovery?

Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to avoid the sounds and flashing lights of pinball machines in pubs, student bars and amusement arcades. Competition from electronic [...]
How to score big on games you’ve never played before

You’re at a league meet or a competition, and you’re up next on a machine you’ve never player before. So what do you do? If you don’t have an inkling [...]
Turning playfields into coffee tables

What you see above is a pinball table. Or, more accurately, a pinball coffee table. It’s based on a genuine 1987 Zaccaria Earth Wind Fire playfield, and it was dreamed [...]
Timeshock! Virtual pinball goes physical

Imagine a computer game becoming real. Not cool if that results in a load of Galaxians running round your front room, but when the game in question is a pinball simulator [...]

Pat Lawlor’s JJP game – latest

1st August 2014 // 4 Comments

Pat Lawlor is, quite simply, a pinball design legend. He’s Pavlov Pinball’s favourite designer, and he is many other pinheads’ favourite as well. So [...]
What’s the score with women’s tournaments?

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Inside the Stern fun factory

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Images from Expo 2014

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What it’s like to be a pinball operator

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EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

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Dancing with the devil: the joy of tilting

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PinSound review: a sound upgrade that transforms your pin

19th February 2015 // 3 Comments

Imagine you could upgrade the sound reproduction quality of any of your older pinball machines to meaty, hi-fi quality stereo. And imagine you could change any or all of the [...]
21st century pinball

16th April 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]
EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

5th June 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s a small industrial unit in deepest South London that’s filled with pinball treasures. To find it you have to locate the right residential street and spot [...]
Playfield paradise

29th April 2014 // 1 Comment

Imagine handing over a beaten up old Addams Family playfield, and getting it back a few months later in perfect, minty, as-new condition. Henrik Maurer You may suspect some [...]

Pinball on location, Down Under style