If you have ever played any form of pinball, you will recall the distinct sounds as the ball bounces around. The pinball machine — a steel ball rolling on a sloped wooden surface — has switches and ...

Oh, the demands of global pinball wizards. There are the French wizards, who like to kick a machine’s legs, to bang its sides and to lean on it to make sure the bouncing ball gets the right spin. That ...

Since Stern became the last player in the game in 2000, there have usually only been three or four new pinball machines a year. A few new manufacturers have sprouted up over the last few years, and ...

If you’ve ever been in a good arcade, you’ve been inundated by the sounds of electronic boops, beeps and pew-pews. One of the most recognizable sounds you’d hear were the sounds of pinball machines.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- Aaron Schurman says his company just made “the big leagues,” and it could translate into more high-tech jobs for the Cedar Valley. Genesis Communications, doing business as ...

The jackpots keep rolling at Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi. The fifth $100,000-plus jackpot of the year hit at 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday. The player from Alabaster, Alabama, who asked to remain ...

Few analog amusements have continued to thrive in the digital age. Videocassettes are dead. So are landlines and cathode-ray televisions. (Well, nearly dead.) One delightful diversion of yesteryear ...