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Playfield paradise

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 [...]
Dancing with the devil: the joy of tilting

Tilt mechs stop cheating and machine abuse - but they also affect tournament strategies [...]
PinSound review: a sound upgrade that transforms your pin

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 [...]
Official mods on the cards at Stern, JJP

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 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 [...]

Weird science: converting EMs to SS and creating replica machines

26th July 2014 // 0 Comments

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

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Boffin-joker writing pinball page turner

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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 [...]
Pat Lawlor’s JJP game – latest

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21st century pinball

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What it’s like to be a pinball operator

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Thunderbirds Pinball – May 2015 update

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How game rules come about

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Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever

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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 [...]
Alien Pinball – lastest news

23rd August 2015 // 2 Comments

Heighway Pinball has spilled some more beans about the Alien Pinball machine. [...]
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 [...]
Book review: Santiago Ciuffo’s “Pinball”

30th April 2014 // 2 Comments

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

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