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Pinball 2000 – back from the grave?

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 [...]
Why colour is vital to pinball’s future

Younger pinball players never had to put up with black and white televisions or monochrome computer monitors and Palm Pilot screens. So can pinball manufacturers seriously [...]
What’s the score with women’s tournaments?

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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Five chinese pinball machines are GO!

19th June 2014 // 3 Comments

Mike Kalinowski is building a pinball factory in China, which is odd because Chicago is supposed to be the centre of pinball manufacturing. But then again pinball factories [...]
Review: Monitor pins in storage – BlueMaestro Tempo

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Is John Popadiuk really working on Thunderbirds Pinball?

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Heighway Pinball’s Alien – update

22nd November 2014 // 6 Comments

Heighway Pinball dropped a bombshell at Expo last month when it announced that it had secured the license to Alien. It plans to release an Alien-themed pinball machine next [...]
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 [...]
An odd way to make dull pins interesting

3rd July 2014 // 0 Comments

How do you make a game you’re bored of playing more interesting? What about messing about with the balls? Buster Gonad’s unfeasibly large balls probably [...]
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 [...]

Pinball 2000 – back from the grave?