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Does pinball licencing work?

The pinball landscape is dominated by new machines with licences. There’s the recent Sterns: AC/DC, Metallica, Star Trek, Mustang. All licenced. And Jersey Jack [...]
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 [...]
21st century pinball

Pinball machines were commonplace in arcades and snackbars when Koen Heltzel was a child in Roermond, The Netherlands, in the early 1990s, but by the time he had grown up and [...]
Play better! Pinball tips from the world’s top competitors

Here's how to win a major tournament. [...]
App review: Level your pin the easy way with PinGuy

Everyone loves a new addition to their pin collection, but setting it up so it’s level and angled right? Let’s face it: it’s a pain in the backside: down on [...]

George Gomez interview: his take on colour displays and more

19th September 2014 // 3 Comments

Pavlov Pinball spoke to Jack Guarnieri of Jersey Jack Pinball and Barry Driessen of Dutch Pinball in part one of this special feature about colour pinball displays and the [...]
3D Madness

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Five chinese pinball machines are GO!

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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 [...]
Silver Castle’s Timeshock!: The inside story

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Pinball on location, Down Under style

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A very bizarre pinball Nitro Ground Shaker story

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Does pinball licencing work?

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EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

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Turning playfields into coffee tables

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A very bizarre pinball Nitro Ground Shaker story

26th April 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s a Bally Nitro Ground Shaker in England with a very peculiar history. The pin was built in Chicago in 1980, and it now sits in a house in Farnborough, one 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 [...]
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 [...]
Review: Monitor pins in storage – BlueMaestro Tempo

14th November 2014 // 1 Comment

Many pinheads have got more pinball machines than space to set them up in. It’s a simple fact of pinball life. One is never enough, and many of us go on buying them [...]

Does pinball licencing work?