Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually be made available for the public to play at a special exhibition.

Santo Cordero smooths decals on the cabinets of pinball machines at the Stern Pinball Factory in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, on Feb. 22, 2024. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — Due ...

Pinball machines have something for everyone. They’re engaging, fast-paced games available in a variety of sizes and difficulties, and legend has it that they can be played even while deaf and blind.

Those of us beyond a certain age will very likely have some fond memories of many an hour spent and pocket money devoured feeding the local arcade pinball machine. At one time they seemed to be pretty ...

It began with one bingo pinball machine Butch Glauda got when he was a teenager. “My uncle (Michael Joseph) bought me my first one when I was 17,” he said. Butch Glauda, of Pottsville, Pa., talks ...

Steam Deck used to power a virtual pinball machine with a 16-inch screen Pinball FX3 software utilized for game rendering on the larger display Detailed instructions and materials list provided for ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, if you lost a quarter to a mercilessly tough pinball machine, you likely lost it to a game designed by one of the four big players: Stern, Williams, Bally, or ...

Arcades during the 1980s were the place to be. The digitized siren songs of newly developing computer arcade games mixed with the bells, whistles, thumps, and flipper flaps of the long-established ...

Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude Stein’s ...