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Why colour is vital to pinball’s future

Younger pinball players never had to put up with black and white televisions or monochrome computer monitors and Palm Pilot screens. So can pinball manufacturers seriously [...]
Timeshock! Virtual pinball goes physical

Imagine a computer game becoming real. Not cool if that results in a load of Galaxians running round your front room, but when the game in question is a pinball simulator [...]
EM porn – electro-mechanical beauties

Electro-mechanicals are the MILFs of of the pinball world: old, but gorgous none the less [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]
Five chinese pinball machines are GO!

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Wrestlemania and JJP’s new WoZ pindemption contraption

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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 [...]
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 [...]
Low cost colour display

19th May 2014 // 0 Comments

We are big fans of colour displays here at Pavlov Pinball: the Theatre of Magic at Pavlov Towers looked great with a ColorDMD unit – until we sold it. But not before we [...]
Inside the Stern fun factory

16th May 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s been lots of news surrounding Stern and its factory over the last week or so, what with the announcement that the company is looking for new premises and the [...]

Why colour is vital to pinball’s future