Game of skills or evil gambling? It is hard to believe that there was a long period in the history of arcade games when pinball machines, these amazing mixtures of art, design, engineering, technology ...

Modern games have evolved to be competitive with other forms of video gaming, says Dave Ruck, a fellow collector and pinball enthusiast. Along with immersive playfields, modern games incorporate ...

When Xbox Live arrived in the early 2000s, it turned console gaming into a global social experience. Now, a team of tech veterans at Scorbit is betting they can do the same for one of gaming’s oldest ...

Pinball machines have mostly faded from arcades. They have been replaced by modern gaming systems with the goal of feeding the attention deficit public. But once upon a time, the mechanical game was ...

Pinball was once outlawed, Prohibition-style, as a gambling game. The New York City police commissioner went around bashing pinball machines for photo ops. And if you play it the amateur way, only ...

Come for the custom framing, stay for a few rounds of pinball. Here's how "The Flipper Room" is bringing classic pinball fun to the East Bay.

A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike. The echoes of arcade game history fill the otherwise quiet Aviation Mall – they’re coming from Arcade ...

SUPERIOR — With his knees bent and one foot slightly in front of the other, Parnell Lutz, of Duluth, hunched over a pinball machine in Average’s Joe’s pub in Superior. The game he’s focused on is ...

PATCHOUGE, N.Y. - From virtual reality to tablets, modern technology seems to be taking over gaming. But on Long Island, a new entertainment business is going back to the basics. For pinball lovers, ...

The lure of devices offering a quick payout has captured the curiosity and coins of Virginians for over a century. And for just as long, law enforcement officials have targeted those very devices, ...