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

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 [...]
Play better! Pinball tips from the world’s top competitors

Here's how to win a major tournament. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]
A year in pinball: 10 things that made 2014 special

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John Popadiuk: pinball’s Steve Jobs?

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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 [...]
Official mods on the cards at Stern, JJP

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Exclusive sneak peak at Kill Bill pinball

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Pinball 2000 – back from the grave?

1st June 2014 // 1 Comment

Pinball 2000 was meant to make it easy for operators to change the game in a pinball cabinet from one title to another. There was just one problem: in 1999, after the [...]
Pinball for hire: what people do to rental machines

13th February 2015 // 0 Comments

On the scale of risky things to do with your pinball machines, few things rank higher than dumping them off at the house of a complete stranger who’s planning a wild [...]
Pinball on location, Down Under style

30th October 2014 // 0 Comments

Pinball HQ is the brainchild of Norbert Snicer, a veteran of the Australian coin-op scene [...]
Book review: Santiago Ciuffo’s “Pinball”

30th April 2014 // 2 Comments

A new coffee table art book of Argentinian pins [...]

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