Pinball machines were the video games of their day. Back when they were king, there were no microcontrollers — everything was electromechanical. We know from experience that fixing these was … ...

That's an extreme challenge given some of those pinball machines date back to the 1940s and '50s, games designed to survive in the field for a year or two before being replaced.

And back in the day, every bowling alley had a pinball machine. And even though I might have been maybe too young to bowl seriously, I was old enough to play pinball,” said Levine.

In the basements of homes around the country are old pinball machines, relics of a pastime that is seeing a resurgence. Winona Area Learning Center teacher Matthew Wagner was thinking about all of ...

On a Tuesday night at Logan Arcade, a bar on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Ian, a 57-year-old assistant manager, looks at the Rick and Morty pinball machine. “This is a frustrating machine,” he ...

Growing up, Brian Soares was never a pinball guy. The Attleboro native remembers playing a game or two over the years, but that was about it. These days, the basement of this 50-year-old’s ...