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Pinball for hire: what people do to rental machines

On the scale of risky things to do with your pinball machines, few things rank higher than dumping them off at the house of a complete stranger who’s planning a wild [...]
Exclusive: Mr Pinball revealed!

Which real person has featured in the most different pinball machines? [...]
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 [...]
What’s the point of pop bumpers?

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 [...]
Pat Lawlor’s JJP game – latest

Pat Lawlor is, quite simply, a pinball design legend. He’s Pavlov Pinball’s favourite designer, and he is many other pinheads’ favourite as well. So [...]

John Popadiuk: pinball’s Steve Jobs?

20th October 2014 // 1 Comment

Pinball has come to a fork in the road, presenting alternative paths to the future. One path is for artists and aesthetes, another for technologist, scientists and engineers. [...]
George Gomez interview: his take on colour displays and more

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App review: Level your pin the easy way with PinGuy

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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 [...]
PinSound review: a sound upgrade that transforms your pin

19th February 2015 // 3 Comments

Imagine you could upgrade the sound reproduction quality of any of your older pinball machines to meaty, hi-fi quality stereo. And imagine you could change any or all of the [...]
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 [...]
Virtual games bring pinball to new audience

16th April 2014 // 0 Comments

The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big business for [...]

Pinball for hire: what people do to rental machines