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Images from Expo 2014

It’s Game Over for Pinball Expo, but here are some of Pavlov Pinball’s snaps from Chicago. There’s zombies, Dudes, Galaxy Girls, EMs galore and plenty of [...]
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, [...]
Is pinball about to stage a recovery?

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 [...]
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 [...]
Pinball culture: Astonishing things you didn’t know about Novus

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 [...]

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 [...]
How to score big on games you’ve never played before

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The amazing story behind Roadshow’s “Red”

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Dutch pinball invasion, part 1

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21st century pinball

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Turning playfields into coffee tables

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Pinball on location, Down Under style

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What’s the score with women’s tournaments?

20th March 2015 // 3 Comments

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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An odd way to make dull pins interesting

3rd July 2014 // 0 Comments

How do you make a game you’re bored of playing more interesting? What about messing about with the balls? Buster Gonad’s unfeasibly large balls probably [...]

Images from Expo 2014