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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 [...]
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 [...]
PinSound review: a sound upgrade that transforms your pin

Imagine you could upgrade the sound reproduction quality of any of your older pinball machines to meaty, hi-fi quality stereo. And imagine you could change any or all of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]
Playfield paradise

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Wrestlemania and JJP’s new WoZ pindemption contraption

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Keeping pinball alive in the land of fire and ice

25th June 2014 // 0 Comments

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: [...]
Dutch pinball invasion, part 1

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How game rules come about

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EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

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Pat Lawlor’s JJP game – latest

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Turning playfields into coffee tables

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Images from Expo 2014

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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 [...]
Pinball Magazine 3 – 7 reasons to get it

10th October 2015 // 1 Comment

There's plenty to drool over in Pinball Magazine 3, even for non-Kiss fans [...]
Bye bye incandescents: The Walking Dead is all-LED

5th September 2014 // 0 Comments

So it’s farewell to the humble incandescent bulb, it seems. In a very illuminating message to the world earlier this week, Gary Stern announced that Stern Pinball is to [...]
Pinball modding is growing up

19th June 2015 // 0 Comments

The pinball mod-making scene radically transformed itself over the last twelve months or so. [...]

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