Coin-operated pinball machines were first introduced in the 1930s, also known as “pin games,” in which a player would launch a ball with a plunger through a series of metal pins in order to ...

But the first machines to resemble pinball as we know it — pegs, coin-operated play — appeared in the 1930s, with the Chicago-based company Gottlieb. Its success led to dozens of imitators ...

When the Pacific Pinball Museum first opened in 2004, it was technically illegal to operate a pinball arcade in Alameda County. Pinball had long been associated with the mafia and vices like gambling, ...

It’s almost 6 pm, and flashes of multicolored light burst from pinball machines lined up inside two back rooms of this Glassell Park comic book shop that — much like the Tardis in “Dr.