In the lower level of Ron Barbagallo’s Smithtown home, a quick flip of a light switch powers on more than 25 pinball machines in a high-ceilinged showroom. Godzilla, Austin Powers, Star Trek, Elvis ...

If you pull back the plunger of a pinball machine ever so slowly, your wrist can feel the delicious tension building in each coil of the metal spring, one after the next, as the kinesis of ...

[Quinn Dunki] has come to realize the pinball machines of her youth aren’t the lame games she remembered. They’re actually quite marvelous in terms of electronics, mechanics, engineering and the all ...

FRAMINGHAM – Like a master mechanic looking under the hood of a car, Stuart Bloomstein lifted the play field of a pinball machine to expose its anatomy: the wiring and switches, the chimes and coils.

FEASTERVILLE – Don’t talk to Russ Snyder about the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360. For Snyder, there is nothing like the sound and feel of a classic electromechanical pinball ...

The normally staid lobby of the Wyndham O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont was accessorized last weekend with the oversized pinball machine Hercules, containing footlong flippers and a fist-sized metallic ball.

At a high point in pinball’s popularity, a rock opera and a movie were made about it. Mesa pinball machine restorer and collector Bruce Artman recalls those days with vivid imagery. Now it seems ...

Behind the counter at Porter’s Pinball Parlor on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine, proprietor Brian Porter has erected a shrine of sorts, a series of questions and answers noting important moments in ...