Pavlov’s picks

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  Turning playfields into coffee tables

  22nd May 2014 // 0 Comments

  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 [...]
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  What’s the point of pop bumpers?

  10th July 2014 // 7 Comments

  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 [...]
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  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, [...]
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  What’s the score with women’s tournaments?

  20th March 2015 // 3 Comments

  Women – usually scantily clad women – have long been a staple of pinball machine artwork. But plenty of women enjoy playing pinball too: go to almost any league [...]