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What’s the point of pop bumpers?

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 [...]
Keeping pinball alive in the land of fire and ice

Iceland is a spectacularly beautiful country, but it’s a tough place to live if you happen to be a pinball nut. Who plays pinball in a pond? Crazy Viking dudes. Photo: [...]
Is John Popadiuk really working on Thunderbirds Pinball?

Pavlov Pinball talks JPop and more with Homepin's Mike Kalinowski [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Book review: Santiago Ciuffo’s “Pinball”

30th April 2014 // 2 Comments

A new coffee table art book of Argentinian pins [...]
Pimp your firmware with Pinball Browser

27th April 2014 // 0 Comments

Anything's possible when you can change the sounds [...]
Revealed: the most significant pinball machine ever

23rd January 2015 // 5 Comments

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

15th December 2014 // 0 Comments

Stern does it. JJP does it. Dutch Pinball and Skit-B do it. And now Heighway Pinball does it too. From the very biggest to the newest to the boutiquiest, pinball makers of [...]

What’s the point of pop bumpers?