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Wizard Mode pinball movie – exclusive interview

The director talks: fascinating insights into the new feature-length pinball documentary about Robert Gagno. [...]
Dutch pinball invasion, part 1

Consider this: The Netherlands is a very flat country. And this: Pinball machines need to be placed somewhere flat. Coincidence? I think not. No, you have got to think [...]
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 [...]
An odd way to make dull pins interesting

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 [...]
21st century pinball

Pinball machines were commonplace in arcades and snackbars when Koen Heltzel was a child in Roermond, The Netherlands, in the early 1990s, but by the time he had grown up and [...]

Pinball culture: Astonishing things you didn’t know about Novus

29th September 2014 // 0 Comments

Question: What do salad bar sneeze guards, tanning beds and pinball playfields have in common? Answer: All of these things can be cleaned and polished with Novus, the very [...]
Ghostbusters, Alien, Whoa! Nellie: latest updates.

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Bye bye incandescents: The Walking Dead is all-LED

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Original themes and women’s titles from Stern?

5th February 2015 // 1 Comment

Why do all Stern pinball machines have licenced themes? Wrestlemania, The Walking Dead, Mustang, Star Trek, Avengers, X-Men – well you get the idea. The company is [...]
Whoa Nellie!: One on one with Melony Mellon

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EM porn – electro-mechanical beauties

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Pat Lawlor’s JJP game – latest

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EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

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Thunderbirds Pinball – May 2015 update

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Is pinball about to stage a recovery?

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Pinball photos, facts and playing tips: there’s an app for that

25th November 2015 // 0 Comments

The Pinball Assistant is a kind of IPDB on steroids for your mobile device [...]
How to score big on games you’ve never played before

13th March 2015 // 5 Comments

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 [...]
A year in pinball: 10 things that made 2014 special

29th December 2014 // 1 Comment

The year 2014 is over – and when it comes to pinball it was a biggie. Here are ten things that happened in the pinball world to make it one to remember 1. Pat Lawlor [...]
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 [...]

Wizard Mode pinball movie – exclusive interview