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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 [...]
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 [...]
The best apron pricing card ever?

A bizarre Fish Tales card - and other greats... [...]
Modding heaven

3D printing technology is revolutionizing the world of pinball mods, and the good news is that means they’re going to be better and cheaper than ever. Tim Mezel uses a [...]
Boffin-joker writing pinball page turner

A new book promises to shine a light on the pinball world [...]

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 [...]
Inside the Stern fun factory

16th May 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s been lots of news surrounding Stern and its factory over the last week or so, what with the announcement that the company is looking for new premises and the [...]
Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever

23rd January 2015 // 5 Comments

Here’s a question: what is the most culturally, historically or aesthetically significant pinball machine of all time? Humpty Dumpty? Nip It? Gorgar? The Addams Family, [...]
Pinball 2000 – back from the grave?

1st June 2014 // 1 Comment

Pinball 2000 was meant to make it easy for operators to change the game in a pinball cabinet from one title to another. There was just one problem: in 1999, after the [...]

Does pinball licencing work?