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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, [...]
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 [...]
Pinball’s all-time top toppers

Pavlov Pinball takes a look at the best toppers ever made [...]
Bye bye incandescents: The Walking Dead is all-LED

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 [...]
Pinball licencing 101: how much, why – and Harry Potter

Stern does it. JJP does it. Dutch Pinball and Skit-B do it. And now Heighway Pinball does it too. From the very biggest to the newest to the boutiquiest, pinball makers of [...]

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 [...]
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 [...]
Playfield paradise

29th April 2014 // 1 Comment

Imagine handing over a beaten up old Addams Family playfield, and getting it back a few months later in perfect, minty, as-new condition. Henrik Maurer You may suspect some [...]
Modding heaven

26th April 2014 // 0 Comments

3D printing technology is revolutionizing the world of pinball mods, and the good news is that means they’re going to be better and cheaper than ever. Tim Mezel uses a [...]

Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever