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Matrix man’s pinteractive pinball museum

The Dutch Pinball Musem is about to explode onto the Rotterdam scene [...]
How to score big on games you’ve never played before

You’re at a league meet or a competition, and you’re up next on a machine you’ve never player before. So what do you do? If you don’t have an inkling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sexing up bad translites

Every now and then you come across a great game – with a translite that’s so ugly it has you reaching for a paper bag. Two machines spring to mind immediately; [...]

What’s the point of pop bumpers?

10th July 2014 // 7 Comments

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 [...]
Timeshock! Virtual pinball goes physical

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Why colour is vital to pinball’s future

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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. [...]
How game rules come about

26th April 2015 // 0 Comments

Pavlov Pinball talks to Keith Johnson, coder of The Hobbit, LOTR and TSPP [...]
Does pinball licencing work?

10th August 2014 // 3 Comments

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 [...]
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 [...]

Matrix man’s pinteractive pinball museum