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Phantasmic pinball creations

Gobsmacking things in the world of pinball that make you go “nghuuuuurrrr?” are like buses: you wait ages for one and then three come along together. But what [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to get ahead at pinball – Pavlov Pinball talks to world champion Bowen Kerins

How do you win a top pinball tournament like the PAPA World Championships? A nice big trophy would look damn fine at Pavlov Towers, so to find out Pavlov Pinball talked to [...]
Book review: Santiago Ciuffo’s “Pinball”

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

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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Is John Popadiuk really working on Thunderbirds Pinball?

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Official mods on the cards at Stern, JJP

18th August 2014 // 2 Comments

There’s no shortage of modfathers and other creative people out there who are making money by designing and selling mods for pinball machines. But for manufacturers, [...]
Pinball’s all-time top toppers

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The best apron pricing card ever?

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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 [...]
Dutch pinball invasion, part 1

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Does pinball licencing work?

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21st century pinball

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Thunderbirds Pinball – May 2015 update

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Heighway Pinball’s Alien – update

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Inside the Stern fun factory

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A very bizarre pinball Nitro Ground Shaker story

26th April 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s a Bally Nitro Ground Shaker in England with a very peculiar history. The pin was built in Chicago in 1980, and it now sits in a house in Farnborough, one of [...]
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 [...]
George Gomez interview: his take on colour displays and more

19th September 2014 // 3 Comments

Pavlov Pinball spoke to Jack Guarnieri of Jersey Jack Pinball and Barry Driessen of Dutch Pinball in part one of this special feature about colour pinball displays and the [...]
Whoa Nellie!: One on one with Melony Mellon

9th March 2016 // 0 Comments

Pavlov Pinball meets the southern belle behind the voice of Melony Mellon [...]

Phantasmic pinball creations