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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 [...]
3D Madness

Pinball Dreams' stunning 3D Medieval Madness translites are here! [...]
Does pinball licencing work?

The pinball landscape is dominated by new machines with licences. There’s the recent Sterns: AC/DC, Metallica, Star Trek, Mustang. All licenced. And Jersey Jack [...]
What’s the point of pop bumpers?

Pop bumpers, jet bumpers, thumper bumpers – call them what you will: you’ll find them on machines of pretty much all ages. They certainly look good and photograph [...]
EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

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 [...]

Review: Monitor pins in storage – BlueMaestro Tempo

14th November 2014 // 1 Comment

Many pinheads have got more pinball machines than space to set them up in. It’s a simple fact of pinball life. One is never enough, and many of us go on buying them [...]
Pinball Magazine 3 – 7 reasons to get it

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Five chinese pinball machines are GO!

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Silver Castle’s Timeshock!: The inside story

7th November 2014 // 0 Comments

Silver Castle exploded onto the Dutch (and world) pinball scene a few months ago with the announcement that the company is to make a real version of the virtual pinball [...]
Dancing with the devil: the joy of tilting

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Does pinball licencing work?

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Keeping pinball alive in the land of fire and ice

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How game rules come about

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Whoa Nellie!: One on one with Melony Mellon

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What’s the score with women’s tournaments?

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A very bizarre pinball Nitro Ground Shaker story

26th April 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s a Bally Nitro Ground Shaker in England with a very peculiar history. The pin was built in Chicago in 1980, and it now sits in a house in Farnborough, one of [...]
John Popadiuk: pinball’s Steve Jobs?

20th October 2014 // 1 Comment

Pinball has come to a fork in the road, presenting alternative paths to the future. One path is for artists and aesthetes, another for technologist, scientists and engineers. [...]
Matrix man’s pinteractive pinball museum

21st July 2015 // 0 Comments

The Dutch Pinball Musem is about to explode onto the Rotterdam scene [...]
Sexing up bad translites

4th May 2014 // 1 Comment

Every now and then you come across a great game – with a translite that’s so ugly it has you reaching for a paper bag. Two machines spring to mind immediately; [...]

Turning playfields into coffee tables