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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 [...]
Weird science: converting EMs to SS and creating replica machines

Somewhere in Africa there’s a man who turns EMs into solid state machines. There’s no dark magic involved, just some weird science picked up from the South [...]
Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever

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?

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 [...]
What it’s like to be a pinball operator

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

Bye bye incandescents: The Walking Dead is all-LED

5th September 2014 // 0 Comments

So it’s farewell to the humble incandescent bulb, it seems. In a very illuminating message to the world earlier this week, Gary Stern announced that Stern Pinball is to [...]
What’s the point of pop bumpers?

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George Gomez interview: his take on colour displays and more

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3D Madness

6th February 2016 // 0 Comments

Pinball Dreams' stunning 3D Medieval Madness translites are here! [...]
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 [...]
Pinball modding is growing up

19th June 2015 // 0 Comments

The pinball mod-making scene radically transformed itself over the last twelve months or so. [...]
Book review: Santiago Ciuffo’s “Pinball”

30th April 2014 // 2 Comments

A new coffee table art book of Argentinian pins [...]

21st century pinball