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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 [...]
Heighway Pinball’s Alien – update

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 [...]
Weird science: converting EMs to SS and creating replica machines

Somewhere in Africa there’s a man who turns EMs into solid state machines. There’s no dark magic involved, just some weird science picked up from the South [...]
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 [...]
Pinball for hire: what people do to rental machines

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 photos, facts and playing tips: there’s an app for that

25th November 2015 // 0 Comments

The Pinball Assistant is a kind of IPDB on steroids for your mobile device [...]
EM dawn: the rebirth of cool

5th June 2014 // 0 Comments

There’s a small industrial unit in deepest South London that’s filled with pinball treasures. To find it you have to locate the right residential street and spot [...]
Completing the code

10th May 2014 // 4 Comments

What do you do if you’re not satisfied with the rules of a machine that you own? One option is to rewrite them, and it’s something that’s being done by an [...]
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, [...]

Pat Lawlor’s JJP game – latest