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Wrestlemania and JJP’s new WoZ pindemption contraption

January in London means EAG – an amusement and leisure show featuring arcade machines, Minions, and ride on toys. And pinball. Oh yes indeedy. The first point of call [...]
What’s the score with women’s tournaments?

Women – usually scantily clad women – have long been a staple of pinball machine artwork. But plenty of women enjoy playing pinball too: go to almost any league [...]
EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

There’s a small industrial unit in deepest South London that’s filled with pinball treasures. To find it you have to locate the right residential street and spot [...]
Book review: Santiago Ciuffo’s “Pinball”

A new coffee table art book of Argentinian pins [...]
Wizard Mode pinball movie – exclusive interview

The director talks: fascinating insights into the new feature-length pinball documentary about Robert Gagno. [...]

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 [...]
How game rules come about

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Pinball for hire: what people do to rental machines

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

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Turning playfields into coffee tables

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Dancing with the devil: the joy of tilting

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Dutch pinball invasion, part 1

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Is pinball about to stage a recovery?

16th April 2014 // 0 Comments

Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to avoid the sounds and flashing lights of pinball machines in pubs, student bars and amusement arcades. Competition from electronic [...]
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 [...]
Turning playfields into coffee tables

22nd May 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]
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 [...]

Wrestlemania and JJP’s new WoZ pindemption contraption