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 ...

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.

It’s a rainy Monday morning and Doug Clark is making a house call—an early but otherwise average start to his week. He parks in the circle driveway of a lookalike home in a suburban subdivision, grabs ...

Stern Pinball and others in the industry say demand for their tables is on the rise Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to avoid the sounds and flashing lights of pinball machines in pubs, ...

Brian Halac, left, at work restoring pinball machines at Hollywood Candy. Brian Halac works on a Gottlieb Melody pinball machine at Hollywood Candy in the Old Market, restoring lights, bumpers and ...

[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 ...

Brendan and Annie Fitzgerald, owners of FitzCo, stand inside SpareMe Bowl & Arcade on Wednesday, where they were hosting FitzCo’s monthly internationally ranked pinball tournament in Iowa City. The ...

Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to avoid the sounds and flashing lights of pinball machines in pubs, student bars and amusement arcades. Competition from electronic arcade machines and fruit ...