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Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever

Here’s a question: what is the most culturally, historically or aesthetically significant pinball machine of all time? Humpty Dumpty? Nip It? Gorgar? The Addams Family, [...]
Heighway Pinball’s Alien – update

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

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 [...]

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 [...]
Timeshock! Virtual pinball goes physical

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What’s the point of pop bumpers?

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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever