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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 [...]
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 [...]
Low cost colour display

We are big fans of colour displays here at Pavlov Pinball: the Theatre of Magic at Pavlov Towers looked great with a ColorDMD unit – until we sold it. But not before we [...]
Alien Pinball – lastest news

Heighway Pinball has spilled some more beans about the Alien Pinball machine. [...]
Virtual games bring pinball to new audience

The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big business for [...]

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 [...]
Is John Popadiuk really working on Thunderbirds Pinball?

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Wrestlemania and JJP’s new WoZ pindemption contraption

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What it’s like to be a pinball operator

6th October 2014 // 3 Comments

Barcades, arcades, pubs, and even the odd laundromat – pinball machines are slowly reappearing in public places. Sometimes that’s down to proprietors who are [...]
How game rules come about

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Dutch pinball invasion, part 1

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Thunderbirds Pinball – May 2015 update

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Whoa Nellie!: One on one with Melony Mellon

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Is pinball about to stage a recovery?

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Exclusive: Mr Pinball revealed!

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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. [...]
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 [...]
Wizard Mode pinball movie – exclusive interview

28th September 2015 // 0 Comments

The director talks: fascinating insights into the new feature-length pinball documentary about Robert Gagno. [...]
Completing the code

10th May 2014 // 4 Comments

What do you do if you’re not satisfied with the rules of a machine that you own? One option is to rewrite them, and it’s something that’s being done by an [...]

Turning playfields into coffee tables